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Wendelien van der Schaar

Fellow

Current Country

Netherlands 🇳🇱

Current City

Rotterdam

Intuition

Cultivating inner knowing

A question currently animating me about the inner life/spirit is:

How do I start living the moment, rather than the future?

A question currently animating me about the outer world/universe/multiverse is:

In what ways can creativity be used to help others?

The practices I’m finding most helpful at the moment are:

Journaling

A moment I noticed my inner light kindled this month was:

When I met up with a friend that I’ve only seen a few times (although we did visit long distance friends together) and realised again how good of a match we are by having such interesting conversations I’m rarely able to have with most of my friends

A moment I noticed my inner light dwindled this month was:

A moment of realisation again that my best friend does not at all care about the environment or helping the poor etc and cares so much about money and finding it hard to be myself in an environment that doesn’t care about the things I care for at all

Courage

Aligning action

Assumptions I'm examining right now are:

Happiness

I originally assumed:

I used to think that finding a job that suits you will make you happy

These assumptions are changing:

Now I sense that that’s only partly true, cause helping others is essential for lasting happiness

A moment I stepped out of my comfort zone this month was:

Finalising my housing plan for the next three months and booking the tickets: I’m bad making a choice because I’m always overthinking if it is the right one or not, which I think is one of the reasons why I’m often procrastinating

Compassion

Engaged Empathy

A peer in The Flight School community I am grateful to is:

John Makuei Bath Madut

My message of thanks to them is:

I want to thank you for your insights you’ve shared in the meetings, because I think your point of view is so interesting and your words have really put me to think! You were the one to stand out for me with the things you said, I remember such interesting thoughts you shared

Something that is helping me build trusting relationships here is:

The buddy system!

Digital Detox Retreat

Number of days I've gone without technology