DOWN to EARTH - Behind the scenes

Just like the plants and the animals we too came with a set of instructions. Only we lost ours. Nowaten (he who listens)

Renata: Everything started to change when we became parents. Putting this new life into the world impacted us more than we expected. Not in terms of the practicalities of parenthood - that was easy. But to feel that you had now become part of a lineage that extends beyond your own lifetime. In a way becoming an integral part of that next generation; it really changed our awareness. It raised so many questions: Why am I doing the things I am doing? What is the real value of my achievements? It’s a matter of purpose I think. It shifted the way in which we felt connected with life and therefore also how we felt increasingly disillusioned with many aspects of our society that are just in the way of that. Being the creative independents we were, we never saw ourselves as products of our society. But taking a closer look we had to admit to ourselves that we had become participants of a system, a system we didn’t really believe in.

Rolf: That was definitely a big part of it. But there were multiple processes going on. For me personally, I had come to a stage where I started to see the patterns of the system through my work in corporate boardrooms. The higher I came into the hierarchy of corporations, the more I became disappointed with the leadership I encountered. The lack of vision, the