Hello, we are Jonas, Aylinn and Nora.
This page shows our journey towards the place and the people waiting for us. Our intention is to spread these words into the world — through you — and inspire anybody to find their true home. We share about:
🙆🏼 1. our journey
💁🏽♂️ 2. our offerings
🙋🏻♀️ 3. our longings
We made this page for…
👨🏻🍳👩🏼🏫🧑🏽🌾 those who want to co-create with us
👩👩👧👧👨👩👧👦👨👨👦👦 those living in an active community
🏞️🤷🏽♂️🌳 those with space to start building
🦹🏽♂️🧙🏻♀️🧝🏽♂️ those seeking to be inspired
What we want to create with like-spirited people
Ready to grow together
Our relationship started while living in community setting, and since the start we have felt a readiness to step further in interdependency with each other, with the people around us and with the nature supporting us.
We feel ready to shed old skin. To trade our well-cultured, neat masks with a natural, authentic fire that can burn through the layers upon layers of learned disconnection. This is what we want to offer with everything we do, and we are eager to meet like-hearted folks to do this with.
Now, a little bit about ourselves and how we want to contribute…
Jonas
Born with Lego in one hand and a pencil in the other, he loves to beautify the world around him with illustration, painting, gardening and carpentry. Previously a graphic recorder, designer and entrepreneur, Jonas likes to work on projects in teams and is doing so increasingly with a community-focus. He uses Dragon Dreaming, Sociocracy, Circling and Non-violent communication. He likes to organize events with a twist. Men’s work that involves art, storytelling with sound journeys or sensational dinners in the dark. He really loves cooking and improvising in the kitchen, be it vegan or otherwise, for groups and for himself. His biggest dream is to be part of a school for magic, for children of áll ages. Some of his analog work >>
Things Jonas would rather hide: 🫣
he can procrastinate on what he feels is most important
he has trouble to ask for what he needs and instead serves others
he picks his nose and sometimes eats his boogers <YUCK!!>
Aylinn
Born true capricorn: stubborn and both feet firmly on the ground. The healing arts — first psychology and later energy- and breath work — give her a way of gifting this grounding quality to others. She believes that true healing happens in relationship, and she supports this through sacred relating for couples and conscious parenting. She’s now dedicated to the season of motherhood - which inspires her to slow down and find her way back to nature. During pregnancy she became intrigued with physiological birth and postpartum care. She strongly believes that healthy mothers are as important as the soil is for healthy food: it’s a base for thriving life and healthy communities. She wishes to raise children consciously and (co-)create a community where she can share this journey of homesteading and homeschooling.
Things Aylinn would rather hide: 😅
she’s a sucker for attention (although usually pretends otherwise)
she likes to put her feet up in the air to let others work for her
she can spend hours in her head thinking about ‘embodiment’
Nora
Born with her legs out first, Nora was standing firmly on the ground while her head was still in the whomp. Being just a few months old, her forté is making cute sounds when things seem okay, and screaming like all hell breaks loose when not. Could this be her way of showing us what is to come? She is definitely teaching us how to be more open minded, to have a hunger for learning and life, and how to be fully in touch with magic.
(Nora hides absolutely NOTHING)
*Also… 🚐 🎪 💰
We have a VW campervan, a Yurt and financial means to sustain ourselves, and potentially to invest in property and other things necessary to get us going.
2.What we want to enjoy with others:
We believe a community is what we experience in the present — not a static concept. It is the sum of all the relations in a group, and something that forms organically given the necessary ingredients. Most of these ingredients were integral parts of the communities we visited and all of them are what we feel we need in order to thrive.
We structured these ‘necessary ingredients’ in the following topics:
🪷 Heart relating
🔥 Culture creation
🐝 Social structures
🌀 Cycle of life
🌲 Natural abundance
🛖 Shared facilities
This is how and why we see them as vital:
🪷 Heart relating
To be able to joyfully live together, we need:
Practices to relate from the heart, like Circling and Authentic Relating
Language (and culture) that invites wholeness and welcomes our shadowy parts
A story of interrelating, to see our reflection in everything around us
This ingredient is deeply spiritual for us. In the secular culture we grew up in, religion (monotheism) was our best example of finding meaning beyond the directly visible. Although this felt restrictive, we do feel the need for divinity in our life. We experience the concept of ‘God’ in the mundane, in ourselves and everything that is alive. There is so much divinity in the simple things of life, but it takes open eyes to see and an open heart to feel.
We find that practicing heart-opening is best done in a group setting. Maybe because our hearts were made for connection? Likewise, the specific way we connect with language can bring so much openness to the moment. Finally, we believe we need stories to open our hearts and minds to the beautiful inter-connectedness of the universe.
🔥 Culture creation
To feel meaningfully connected to this moment, we need:
Relational practices and rituals to connect on all levels
Celebrations to honor life deeply and grow together in gratitude
Art and storytelling to experience and pass on meaning
What makes us ‘special’ as human beings? Possibly it is how we share ideas and stories about how the world ought to be. This makes us able to ‘shape’ our surroundings based on our vision — and hence we become responsible to choose of this vision is inspired by what we want (constructive) or by what we don’t want (ob-/destructive).
The way we cultivate these ideas and stories shapes our togetherness. It is easy to imagine that practicing daily meditation will create a different course than weekly debates. We will need to look at all aspects of life, if we are to alter the ways in which our current culture is not serving us.
🐝 Social structure
To live and work together harmoniously, we need:
Governance with decision-making that includes all beings involved (e.g. sociocracy)
A vision that inspires love, impacts lives and includes everyone
Life-enabling structures, like:
(gift) economy
(un)schooling
(holistic) care
We want to share 100% responsibility for our happiness and for the land we live on. This means returning ownership to the land and practicing living together without rules from ‘above’. We believe that humans are innately good, and simultaneously require a living, breathing structure that nurtures and invites this goodness.
People growing up in a communal way have many ways to live in constant connection with others and with nature. Foremost, they see themselves as a part of the whole. As most of us grew up differently, we might need extra reminders to practice living in relation with rather than in separation from each other. The items above can provide a container for this ‘reminding practice’.
🌀 Cycle of life
To keep balance in and outside of us, we need:
Involving all generations to support each other
Honoring Water as a sacred vehicle of life
Viewing earth, death and the unknowable as allies
To say Life has a natural flow is like saying the sky is a vast open space. Yet, it is this flow that we deeply want to honor and support. We imagine our lives being tied to ‘the greater Life’ of our surroundings and the planet in infinite ways. All these connections are cycles, where we breathe in and out — day and night, freshness and compost, receiving and letting go.
We think some of these cycles deserve extra attention these days: the way our children and elders are involved in our and each other’s life; the way we view elemental parts as sacred, especially water; the way we hold the ‘under/otherworld’ as something that is neither for nor against us, but as something we can relate to with love and reverence. Duality might be a beautiful illusion, but we still have the rolling the waves of time and space, so why not surf them elegantly?
🌲 Natural abundance
To root ourselves and shepard nature, we need:
Tall trees to root us, and water to keep life flowing
Quiet nature that we can help to protect and thrive
Shared gardens to live from the earth
🛖 Shared facilities
To save resources and interweave our lives, we need:
Social spaces to meet and event spaces to host
Work and tinker spaces to create, and tools to share
Renewable power sources and water retention
So…
What is yóur dream? 💭
Now, as you read these words, we extend an open invitation to join us on this journey. Whether you are seeking an active community, yearning to co-create, have space to start building, or simply are in search of inspiration, we are curious to find out what our deeper connection can look like. Let us embark on a shared adventure, weaving our lives together in a garden of authenticity, growth, and connection. Let’s find our true home in togetherness and build a thriving community where each individual is seen, heard, and valued.
Oh, and did we say the time was now? Come, dear friend, and let's create magic together.
🌳👨🏼🌾🌻
Are you part of an eco village or other community, and like to invite us? Or do you live somewhere that you think could fit a community?
👁️❤️🔥👉🏼
Do you resonate with our dream and feel ready to make it reality?
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We thank you for your precious time.
As a small token of appreciation…
A story from the future.
The following text is an abbreviated version of TRANSMISSION FROM YEAR 2140 INCOMING By Jason Hine | Patmos, Greece from the website Imaginal Futures. Read the original version here.
Transmission from the Future: Welcome to Our World!
We're here to tell you something beautiful. In the year 2140, we created an incredible place to live. Our world is full of new continents and communities where everyone works together and takes care of the Earth.
We know that in the past, people had a lot of worries about the future and felt increasingly less in control. But we've learned that by coming together and helping each other, we can make a difference. We have built bridges to connect our worlds and find solutions as a team. Also, we learned that time is not what it seems to you. We want you to join us on this exciting journey.
Love is a powerful force in our world. It's about listening, being patient, and taking care of each other. We have learned to love everything around us, from trees to insects to thunder gods. Love has helped us create a beautiful and inclusive community.
In the past, people often focused on the future and forgot to appreciate the present. We realized that by living in the moment and connecting with our roots, we can live more wholly and in touch with what is. Our ancestors have taught us valuable lessons, and we honor their wisdom. Mostly, they have thought us to see time as a circle, that surrounds us.
In our communities, we value wisdom from people of all ages. Elders play an important role in guiding us, and we have created spaces for everyone to share their knowledge. We understand the importance of slowing down, connecting with the land, and supporting one another.
We invite you to cross the narrow bridge that stands between our times. It won't be easy, and there may be challenges, but we have faith in your abilities. We guarantee nothing except for the opportunity to make a difference and leave a positive impact for future generations.
We're here to support you and welcome you into our world of magic. All you need to do is trust that you are able to hear us when you get quiet. The future is full of possibilities beyond your imagination, and we believe in you to open up and invite others with you.
Take our hand and join us on this adventure.
You can find more stories and read the original version here.
Please send us a message on how you want to grow together.
— In het Nederlands —
Hoi, wij zijn Jonas, Aylinn en Nora!
We staan klaar om stappen te nemen naar een meer verbonden leefwereld en zijn op zoek naar mensen die mee bewegen en plekken die daar ruimte voor bieden.
Hier lees je 1. wat wij willen bijdragen, en 2. wat we nodig hebben.