11 Jun Kidnapping by daylight

I am being kidnapped. I am not allowed to know where we are going, but I do have a suspicion. The route heads towards Drenthe. We drive past fields and farms and, after two hours of driving, slip onto a bumpy forest road. We open a roadblock consisting of a thick, rotating wooden beam, park the car, and continue on foot. Then the terrain opens up, and on a spacious meadow stand 4 tipis with their wide brown dresses elegantly draped over the earth.
My eldest daughter steps out of one of the tipis towards us, followed closely by the small, cheerful three-year-old explorer. He stares at us, stands stock-still as if he wants to realize that it is real, and then dives into my wife’s arms.

Nature Trips
This tipi adventure is being offered to me by my family in honor of a milestone birthday. There is a deeper story behind it. In my twenties, I went on several survival trips that we called nature trips. We hiked multi-day treks through nature reserves, carrying a tipi with us. Each participant carried a piece of the tent. We preferred to spend the night near water; this could be a brook, a small lake, or a spring. We picked and gathered wild vegetables, chestnuts, and mushrooms, and mixed them with sprouted grains that we carried along.

Symbol
Years later, when we went to the Zen temple as a family for the summer retreats that lasted a full month, we set up the same tipi, in which we stayed and slept with the still-young children. For me, the tipi is a symbol: the symbol of feeling such a relationship with the earth that you care for her and do not abuse and drain her as humans apparently have a tendency to do. And even though this is merely a symbol and might no longer be possible in reality, it is still valuable to me to have this dream and carry it within me. Time and again, I want to realize: is this step, this journey, this initiative in harmony with the earth and its inhabitants?

Realizing Your Own Dream
The workshop ‘Inner Metamorphosis’ helps you realize your own dream. It does so in three steps:

1. Formulate where you want to go.
   Imagine and visualize the outcome of your path.
2. Identify what is holding you back and remove the blockages.
   What are your limiting beliefs? Be aware of them and ensure they fade away.
3. Make the growth steps possible.
   What do you need? Give it a clear, imaginative name. Bring it to life.

Ensure that your dream is part of a larger whole. Let it truly be a dream. Also, let it go again and again, so that you do not become dependent on it, but remain free.

*This post has been automatically translated from Dutch