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Intrigued by the essence beneath the noise
Award-winning fine photographer | Collage Artist/Worldbuilder📍Berlin
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We FINALLY FOUND A HEALING SPRING near Berlin 🥹🥰
It was the most joyful experience!!

This felt like finding headwaters 🥹 a place where we can be nourished and renewed. The vitality of water is unparalleled. (I believe these kind of places also reside within us — and that’s WHY I am running Headwaters writing course.)

The water tastes incredible and the feeling I get from it is just a very high frequency, very light, and joyous. Almost sparkly ✨

It’s been my dream for a long time now to find a spring we can continuously come back to and connect with. Even with a funny looking man on it, it still tastes just as sweet. And so many people filling up!

We sat silently in meditation, offering back presence and just listening to the running waters of Kurfürstenquelle.

✍🏼There are two weeks to still join Headwaters writing course and make the journey to the most nourishing creative spring that runs within you ⛲️💞 we begin on 22nd October.

A bit more about the spring: “In 1683, a pharmacist from Freienwalde named Gensichen described the healing powers of the Freienwalde springs, which also caught the attention of the Great Elector. He then commissioned his court alchemist, Kunckel, to investigate the matter, specifically the springs. Only positive reports could be returned to Berlin, whereupon the Hohenzollern ruler set out to experience the healing powers of the Freienwalde springs himself. As the first spa guest, Frederick William I thus established Freienwalde’s reputation as the oldest spa town in the Mark Brandenburg in 1684.”

#sacredspring #headwaters

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There comes a time in your life when you have to make a choice. A choice of creating and supporting Earth’s aliveness or adding to its degradation.

Last autumn we made a decision to learn how to rewild land, and to learn it from no other but Alan Watson Featherstone, a man who pioneered rewilding of the ancient Caledonian Forest in the Scottish Highlands.

In all honesty, it was one of the best weeks of our lives. In complete seclusion from the modern world, we lived in Glen Affric for 7 days without any phone signal or running water.

Alan shared stories of these life-altering decision points. The commitment to rewilding the land led Alan to found Trees For Life and plant over 2 million trees with the volunteers and staff (and protected hundreds and thousands more self-seeding trees from overgrazing deer).

He also taught us his methods and approach that can be applied in any context of rewilding.

This journey with Alan and his partner Pupak (who taught us about inner rewilding) was truly altering.

🐺To be wild is to be self-willed.

You can read the whole story of our rewilding training in @meander_magazine.

If you are interested, you can still join Alan in the next rewilding training, “A Rewilding Journey: Rewilding the World and Ourselves,” coming this October in Glen Affric.

Follow the link in the last slide or comment WILD, and we will send you the details.

#scotland #rewilding #rewildingscotland #caledonianforest #highlands

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With the family in Prague and enjoying it!

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In her essay on Cultivating a Personal Idea Culture, @rowenwhite observes that "when we interweave one another's gathered knowledge strings into a mutually recognizable social pattern, we have culture."

Rowen and others inspired us to create a learning commons, which is a mythical worlds that contain dozens of gathering guides on diverse topics –such as metamorphosis, disintegration, and conquerors. It's also our humble attempt to regrow a living culture and reimagine how we access, exchange, and co-create knowledge together.

Visual artist @nielsdevisscher designed three collages inspired by otherWise's community conversations and courses. In this video, he talks about the Tree of Life, which incorporates the magnificent Major Oak in Sherwood Forest. It paints a vision of a world where humans incubate inside cocoons and live alongside more-than-human kin. Dualities are in ongoing, creative tension, at the threshold where day meets night.

If you'd like to explore these collages, and the themes and ideas embodied in them, join us on July 24 and 30. Niels Devisscher will tell stories, and you get the opportunity to share what comes up in response to them, while practicing transcontextual thinking with like-minded peers!

Registration is free, but active participation is required. Simply comment COMMONS and we'll DM you the signup link!

#collageart #majoroak #worldbuilding #sherwoodforest #communityconversation

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It’s here. Volume Three: Wildness is out today. 🌿

What does it mean to be a wild human?

We tend to locate wildness out there – in remote landscapes, untouched forests, creatures that haven’t yet learned to fear us. What if it starts within?

For thousands of years we’ve domesticated nature to serve us – and domesticated ourselves in the process: overriding instinct, mistrusting the body, outsourcing our attention to systems built to capture it.

Across 172 pages, this volume is an antidote to that detachment - a picture of wildness that is plural, embodied and alive.

It exists because of these voices. With deep gratitude to every contributor:

@saracampbelldyd @bookofvoices · @bayo.akomolafe · Benjamin Freud · @rubyrreed · @christabel_rose · @laurelinesk · @bethwalrond · @wyrdfutures · @wilder.land · Melissa Vigogne · @ecolog.ish · @natkelley · @insideheddashead · Mrs Hai · Yannike Schoonhoven· @r_u__ta · @nielsdevisscher · Koffi Agbossoumonde · Elis Parry · @evgenia_emets · @sylviavlinsteadt · @nikkikapp_
Guest edited by @vivivigliar

And with thanks to our partners @commonland4returns @wearethe_regeneration @wildcardcampaign @rewrite.project.eu

This isn’t a volume about escaping into nature. It’s about what happens when wildness finds its way back in.

If you want to rewild your life, this one’s for you. Order at the link in bio.

#wildness #rewilding #regeneration #slowliving

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@nielsdevisscher tearing it up 💚

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We did it! 🙌

As the calendar year draws to a close, we’re reflecting on Meander’s journey over the past 12 months. We have a lot to celebrate!

A year ago Meander Magazine was just a seedling of an idea 🌱

Just one year on, after much nurturing, care and a growing wave of collective energy, Meander Magazine is a tangible reality.

This year we have:
🦋 Launched Volume 1: Returning to Place
💙 Celebrated our official launch at Blue Earth Summit in London
🥳 Held a launch gathering in Amsterdam at the Give Shop
🌎 Volume 1 has shipped to 24 countries across five continents and is on the shelves in a growing number of stores

It’s been a joy to receive pictures of the magazine in the hands of readers all around the world. And to hear how the content resonates: that the stories we’re amplifying are impacting readers’ lives and work, helping to find broader and wider reaching applications of regenerative practices to various areas of life.

We see Meander as much more than just a magazine: it’s developing into a wonderful community which includes our readers, our team (shout out to Ida Persson, Marisa Espinheira, Niels Devisscher, and Leanne Hoogwaerts), and a growing network of brilliant partners. We couldn’t have done this without you.

Getting the magazine off the ground has been a phenomenal effort by all involved. We’re looking ahead to growing our network of collaborators and partners to fall into a cyclical rhythm, bringing you an inspiring and beautiful magazine four times per year. To continue our mission to make regeneration resonate with wider audiences.

Volume 2: Rest and Renewal launches at the end of January. Sign up to our newsletter to be the first to hear when presales go live, and you can still order Vol 1 while stocks last (links for both in bio)

Wishing you a regenerative and nourishing start to 2026 💚
Team Meander

Big thank our partners and collaborators:
Dancing with Mountains @waterbearnetwork @wearethe_regeneration @theplacebureau @ecovillage GEN - Global Ecovillage Network, Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice @bioregionalweavinglabs @commonland4returns @gaiaeducation @raollyltd In Real Life Media

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Farewell 2025

This year will be one of the most extraordinary years to remember. My first year of being a dad has brought me so much love and despite my lack of time, lack of sleep I have managed to work on some amazing projects and make some great memories with the people I love the most.

Muito obrigado!

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leaving berlin with a heart full of gratitude and love for my friends old and new who made a challenging year totally worth it. i feel truly lucky to have such creative and kind people in my life 💌 time to continue the work of inspiring each other and caring for each other 💌

had an epic craft hang last night with lino cuts, collage and even exquisite corpse style comic making. check out my haul! thanks everyone <3333

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Ode to the rivers and streams that nourished me this year.

Rolling through mossy labyrinthine rocks and boulders of the forest and glens of the north. My eyes swell up a little remembering this incredibly pure and magical energy of the river Dart, river Exe, and Alt na Cìche.

So deeply alive, unburdened, an ancient being in continuous meandering of self-renewal.

Each river begins underneath the ground. Deep within the Earth, it fuses with minerals and carves channels in the dark, where no one can see it yet.

But there is a point — a birth point of a stream, which is the headwaters. Here, the river meets the external world and begins to interact with it through nourishment of the surrounding ecological systems.

A similar thing happens within our psyches. Our creative life-force energy has many channels and waterways, and there are specific places where it comes to the surfacing pools.

This is where we can get nourished and regenerated. This is a place we venture to within the course, and this is the place we draw from in our writing.

Headwaters begins today and I am in my happy place.
(You can still join.)

First two photos by @nielsdevisscher ♥️

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Join us for the three online gatherings of the Supernatural Cycle for:

1. Monsters with @bearspeakstothestars and @nielsdevisscher
2. Ghosts with our team
3. Witches with the incredible @maxdashu

As we move through this Supernatural cycle, we will be invited to meet monsters, witches, and ghosts, not as fantasies or costumes, but as tangible presences. We might find that what we call “supernatural” is not beyond nature at all. It might just be the overflow, the spillage that defies our attempts to contain the world we exist within. Perhaps it is the reminder that we are never entirely alone, never entirely intact, never entirely in control.

To live otherWise in a time like ours may mean learning to walk with monsters, heed witches, and be haunted well.

#witches #ghosts #supernatural #monsters #onlinegathering #maxdashu

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Busy & beautiful August ✨

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