Welcome to Shifting Horizons
“Work is love made visible.
Khalil Gibran”
Why
This newsletter is an invitation to question modernity, nurture our lost regenerative capacities, heal our relationships with ourselves, our communities, and life as a metabolic whole. And encompassing it all, remembering and expanding our Love and Awe for life on Earth.
We have a lot face, compost and remember, and this requires bold thinking, deep feeling and collective healing. And this is why I am here.
How
By writing to your hearts, hands, heads and perspectives, I attempt to unravel modernity layer by layer, slowly composting the status quo, shifting horizons and nurturing the conditions for potentially wiser and regenerative futures to emerge.
What
Subscribe if you want to dive into a whirl of essays, facilitation methods, stories, questions and poems that all in their own way hold an invitation to Shift Horizons. #facilitation #regeneration #seismicquestions #poetry #resilience #regenerativecapacities #complexity #livingsystems #deepecology #foodtransitions #foodautonomy
Who
Shifting Horizons is written by Minou Schillings, a trained space holder, food innovator, systems thinker and autodidactic regenerative explorer, with an academic background in Food Transitions & The Development of Thinking (Lateral thinking & Systems Innovation).
Currently, I am working stewarding and writing the collective book project Seismic Questions. I am the co-initiator of Taste The Shift and program designer for a range of embodied food transition learning experiences. I collaborate with commercial and governmental/educational organisations as a Facilitator, Program Designer, Guest Lecturer and Regenerative Transition Guide.
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Some additional words on Shifting Horizons
Shifting Horizons is an attempt and invitation to question modernity, recognise complicity, discern thriveability, heal our relationship with life as a metabolic whole, deepen our imagination for potentially wiser and healthier futures and remember. To create space the for emotional, societal, philosophical and ecological work we will have to listen to the cries of life on Earth, and collectively nurture our innate regenerative capacities, the ones that we lost out of sight on modernities highway of progress.
I write to those who are willing, or hope one day to be willing, to do the hard emotional and social labour of remembering and nurturing our regenerative capacities (however long it may take) without freezing, fleeing or hiding behind quick fixes.
Shifting Horizons is an invitation to show up differently to life. The work will be slow, non-linear, frustrating, fulfilling, confusing, energising, heartbreaking, existential and loving, and sometimes all at once.
In the words of Khalil Gibran, “Work is love made visible”. And we all know, love isn’t always easy. But I can’t think of anything better in this day and age than deeply loving life on Earth and allowing this love to guide us in our ways of being, decisions and, especially, questions.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Testimonials
“Thanks for this- completely succinct and all-encompassing.”
Jo-Anne Godden, Circular Textiles Development & Recycling.“Loved this Minou. Lots to meditate on here!”
Peter Jeffs - Helping horses and humans.“Thank you for this insightful article, Minou! Once again, this hits home! One of my New Year's Resolutions was/is "continue my regeneration journey". It has too often turned into a to-do-list focused on external regeneration and I forget to think about the internal regeneration. Thanks for the reminder, Minou”
Natasja Devos - Business Ambassador“Thank you for this lovely article, Minou! It is a very good reminder. I need it!”
René Mortensens.
Taste The Shift
A playground for Regenerative Futures. Together we are holding space to shift our hearts, hands and heads in alignment with nurturing life on Earth
(Un)Learning Hub
A collection of resources, recommendations and exercises exploring the Regenerative Lens. Gathered and sourced from the world of Regenerators. Curated by Regenerative Transition Facilitator Minou Schillings
Over the last couple of years I carefully documented my (Un)Learning journey. This is the overview that I would have loved existed when I started my journey.
