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Category: Human-nature partnership
Febrary 2024
by Philip Harms and Maeve Hofer
Introduction
What defines a good partnership? In a positive partnership, we are committed to each other, support each other and give each other attention ...
December 2023
by Maike Hering
I've spent the last five days on a ferry journey through the Amazon rainforest eagerly awaiting the right moment to begin writing this essay ...
October 2023
by Martina Artmann
Who hasn't experienced this?
It's a balmy summer evening, you happen to meet a few old friends and get lost in exciting conversation until the wee hours of the morning. ...
June 2023
by Susanne Müller
A personal expression of my individual human-nature-resonance
Patagonia – a place for resonant relationships?
June 2023
by Maike Hering
How it comes to an essay about resonance in Chilean Patagonia
I started working as a research assistant for the URBNANCE project in Dresden in August 2022 and only a few days after the beginning ...
Humbleness towards the Unverfügbarkeit of sleep -
About cycles, sleep rituals and Mother Earth
May 2023
by Susanne Müller
Surely it happens not only to me again and again that I lie in bed in the evening and think "Wow, beds are definitely amongst the best inventions in the world"...
February 2023
by Susanne Müller
Humans never cease to impress me with their intelligence in developing engineering skills with millimeter precision, which then creates telephone lines across continents and oceans ...
Lending nature our voice - role play in search of partnerships with nature
November 2022
by Philip Harms
Today, crises and interwoven dystopian visions of the future often dominate the news. In this essay, we turn the page and share ideas for a positive future!
Admittedly, futures can be many ...
Moving from crisis to resonance: A summer cinema
October 2022
by Philip Harms, Susanne Müller, Mabel Killinger and Martina Artmann
Films tell stories, they touch and move their audience. In this vein, the summer cinema offered the opportunity to experience nature, care about her, and be touched by her beauty ...
The need for self-efficacy in times of powerlessness.
Caring for nature in the city.
September 2022
by Mabel Killinger
At the beginning of August I was confronted with a small piece of paper at the door of my apartment building: "Dear Neighbors, The young trees on the Johannstadt Elbwiesen still urgently need our help. ...
The unavailability of the own voice.
What does Amos really want to "say"?
July 2022
by Mabel Killinger
To engage in a resonant relation with another entity may it be another human being, an animal or an object, Rosa points out that oneself has to acknowledge, see and most of all listen to the opposites own voice. Thereby, said voice also holds unavailability as another prerequisite of ...
Responsive relationships: The treasure of vulnerability
April 2022
by Susanne Müller
Responsive relationships – like the sociologist Hartmut Rosa describes them in his resonance theory published in 2016 – may exist in every context and between different creatures. Whilst an accelerating and more-and-more demanding economic system is claimed ...
January 2022
by Susanne Müller
A human being has a soul. Does every being have a soul? What about a dog? Isn’t a dog a being in whom a soul lives? And what about a horse that according to studies seeks a deep and intense contact towards human beings, comparable to a mother’s loving contact to human beings, comparable to a mother’s loving contact for her newborn child? ...
Nurturing our relation with nature and ourselves in the dark season
December 2021
by Martina Artmann
With the last months of the year, the days get shorter, darker, and cooler again here in Germany. This time of the year might feel for many of us like having the demand for more quietness, sleep, and introspective while in summer we are more active and playful ...