I am looking forward to our conversation about welcoming disability (our own and of others) under the pretext of a 📌 poetry workshop on Friday, July 23rd. (or the other way round). With DeeJae DuRante, it promises to be an eye-opener!…
A friend texted me while I had a light form of COVID-19 and created a decisive shift in how I felt sick. I had been out of action for a week, and although I was getting better, I liked to…
On Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016, at 9:11 a.m., a bomb explodes in a Brussels metro station. A good friend of mine, Johan, goes missing. The ripples of blind violence have just hit me, and I am devastated. Throughout that day…
Written during the quarantine of 2020, the poem should be said with an upbeat tempo, uplifting tone.
Who hasn't got this little voice that undermines the self-confidence through constant criticism? Sometimes in your own voice of that of someone else's (a parent, a teacher, a boss, ....) . The tone, volume, location of this inner voice may…
A tip for having great days: imagine the positive scenario of the best day you can have, imagine the sensations, the emotions, the energy, the resilience and the balance between activity and rest, interactivity and solitude. Imagine who you want…
Poetry for the Living - Gifts for the Spirits 67 poems arranged in three parts: Soham (about the "I", us as separate individuals), Namaste (about the relationship of an "I" to a "you"), Ubuntu (about the wisdom of mankind and…
At the Management Team Retreat of this NGO, we identified quite a good number of competencies available in this multinational team of 7 people! Listening to each other's personal success stories and identifying key strengths deployed in these stories is…
Having worked together for over a decade, and after an accumulation of misinterpreted actions, the relationship between this manager and team-leader was strained, conflicting and on the verge of becoming a full-blown crisis. It affected both the morale of the…
