Petervan Production 2017 - Acryl on canvas - 60x60cm

2017 was a special year for me. I decided to disconnect from corporate life for a yearlong sabbatical focusing on art creation, and reflecting on the possible role of artists to enable structural change in organisations.

Over the last 10 years or so, I experimented creating immersive learning expeditions, but I wanted my work to progress and resonate at a level beyond the conscious. I started a research on high quality change, ill-named “deep” change, and I subscribed as a painting student at the Royal Art Academy of Ghent.

Begin December my good friend Rudy De Waele (@mtrends) – he recently launched Human Works Design with Canay Atalay (@canayatalay) – invited me to write down my five Humanistic Future Trends 2020.

It found it a good moment to condense my sabbatical thinking into a couple of levers that could enable high quality advancement for a humanist future.

• Trend-1: High Quality Connections
• Trend-2: Respect for the collective unconscious
• Trend-3: Coherence of narrative, motives, and governance
• Trend-4: Everything important has to do Aesthetic, Moral and Spiritual advancement
• Trend-5: Structure drives everything

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Any of the trends described could evolve in a good or bad direction, but as an optimist, I chose for the path of “advancement” vs. the path of decline and degradation.

Enjoy