Have you ever been in between two life-stages and felt lost? Past a threshold but not yet arrived, in the corridor from the old to the new? The kind of feeling you can also get in an unknown airport, an empty parking lot, a windy train station or an empty hall of a hospital? You’re are not alone. ‘Liminality’ causes this feeling. Liminality originates from the Latin word līmen, meaning a threshold. In anthropology, liminality stands for the disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a ‘rite of passage’. Researching why people go on ultra long wilderness hikes, I …

(My friends mostly call me Pepe (PP) in stead of Peter Paul 🙂 When I was young, I loved animals and played in nature whenever I got the chance. Swimming in clear blue lakes and watching the shiny fish made me super happy. But when thousands of dying fish surfaced in the river of my hometown, due to chemical spills, it broke my heart. That’s why I decided to study behavioral psychology, years later. Because I believe: “If humans are the problem, they are also the solution”, For many years, I worked as consultant. But there was something wrong. The …

For me, this image shows a metaphor for what nature and stepping outside your routines can do. Besides, the image gives me a pleasant feeling when I look at it. It’s somehow soothing, just as being in nature is. The image also tells me I need to feed the process, to nurture my brain… or is that my alter ego taking a leak? 😉 Just, kidding.(That’s what sprang to my mind when I first saw a small thumbnail of the logo, see below). But it’s true: all things you value, need attention to grow. That’s why I embark on a …