Principle

Belonging

Belonging
We nurture a sense of place

Imagine the feeling of a parent’s warm embrace. Imagine laying your head against their chest, following the movements of the deep and calming breathing as their chest raises and lowers. 

You feel the boundaries from where they end and you begin dissolving. You become one. You do not question your place in the world at this very moment. You feel like you could run through the forest at night, not scared of the dark, because you have a fundamental trust in your right to be in this place. 

Imagine that this is the feeling of belonging. It is when you feel that a place physically, emotionally, and socially allows you to just be. 

When the place invites you to shape it and gives you the courage to leave your mark. We are shaped by places as they are shaped by us. This makes us belong.

This is how we work with belonging

  • We understand the power of mutual trust and embrace patience in transformation processes.

  • We make our senses like hearing, tasting, and smelling just as important as rationality.

  • We nurture strong connections to and care for; material and immaterial things as well as humans and non-humans.

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