Dear fellow
welcome to a sense of home.
Thank you for being here. Lovely to meet you.
A warm welcome
We have created this unique fellowship to allow space for a ‘year-long-inquiry’.
The guiding structures are based on our learning through the following studies: BA, field / action research, Executive EMBA, MSc in Executive Coaching as well as PhD-formats.
This year is an intensive, personal inquiry into the concepts of epistemology and ontology through dialogue, reading, proprioceptive writing and personal feedforwards in writing.
Working in such a way invites you to explore ‘how you perceive’, 'how you know', 'what you know' [ sensing & thinking/cognition ] and ‘create fresh knowledge’ [ new insights ] - though this process magic happens - by doing so you create a thorough, holistic understanding for encompassing meaning making & a healthy decision making.
We will participate in individual action research in writing in the first person form [ no AI allowed, we need your own brain thinking ].
This way of attending allows not only our thoughts, but also somatic experiences to be noticed, sensed, recognised as well as acknowledged. By doing so experiences can hopefully start to metabolise and be digested. We allow an unfolding and expand noticing that we otherwise [ have to ] 'blend-out' in order to ‘function’ in our demanding daily routines.
Committing to inquire in such a way over the course of twelve months, creates a time and space for mindfulness, introspection, reflection, introspection, mutual inquiry, integration, becoming whole, hopefully invite healing and create a sense of home.
Would you love to join us in this deep dive into inquiry and creating fresh knowledge?
Please learn more about our unique fellowship through our button above and
then write our 'expression of interest' to:
welcome@vanderglas-vanderglas.org
The registration for this cohort closes on
1st of February 2026
We look forward to count you in and meeting you inside!
With kindness,
van der Glas & van der Glas [ continue understanding ]
P.S. Are you looking for a ‘place to pause’? Scroll down and have a look.
A sense of community - forests
We learned from our trees and forests nearby -
how they communicate with each other,
how they nourish each other and look out for each other.
How they care for each other.
Humans do the same.
[self-] Care is essential.
This is why we invite you to come to a walkabout with us -
or as John Muir in the Redwood Forests discovered:
“lose your mind & come to your senses”.
Your walkabout can last between 30-90 minutes -
just as you feel like and/or need.
Discover your senses in nature
&
be amazed by the magic!
Publications [perspectives]
In this section you will find our publications, articles -
a variety of perspectives on a wide base of topics.
We believe it is important
to have broad and deep knowledge
in order to understand the ‘whole’
and be able to ‘make sense’.
This is why we provide:
‘food for thought’.
We share this with you with the intention
that you can take in the perspectives,
add them to your own knowledge base
so that you can expand further
and
make up your own mind.
Enjoy your learning journey!
About us - more to know
Through having a conversation with us,
you will find more about us and
what forms the fundament on which we stand,
our education, training as well as combined
more than 100+ years of real-life somatic experience.
Thereby we would like to thank all the teachers, professors, tutors, mentors and people like us that shared their way of thinking generously, so that we could understand more and cultivate our thinking.
Furthermore we would like to acknowledge our embeddedness:
our ancestors lives that provided the grounds for the way
in which we can create our lives today -
the generations in the present,
as well as future generations to come.
Working with us is a benefit for you
that helps you foster your own development as a human being.
We wish you pleasure on your own journey and
look forward to meeting you!
Do you need a pause?
We all feel that we need to take a ‘break’ and push the ‘pause’-button either regularly or from time to time.
Since we know how important ‘islands of peace/silence’ are, we invite you to book your conversation and have a cup of coffee with us here.
We look forward to welcome you in our ‘two birds café’ in our The Mother Tree Nursery.
The ‘two birds café’ is open upon request only.
Dialogues we all need to have [food for thought]