I imagine transformed, the questioning of the school of Athens, the activity of a craftsman’s work-village, an open university where a community of individuals allows a process of metamorphoses to reveal the roles and skills that each unique person carries. We all have something to offer to this workbench, this artwork, this science called life. I imagine a school where the content is people, where learning is a two-way street, where the world can be re-formed, where a fairy tale can become true mystery. I imagine...

I have ten thousand questions – probably more (and I am so looking forward to having space to investigate these questions at the Backpackers Workshop!). It's about freedom and responsibility: who takes and gives both of these? It's about everyone being able to take on their freedom and their responsibility. It's about participating in shaping the places and spaces in which we live and work. It's a question of politics and globalisation and media and social activism and youth work and cooking and making a home and being a friend and lover and being human – truly and honestly, with grace.

How can we study and work with others in freedom and in community? Can we together fashion the new guilds, where we learn for the love of learning, and where we put what we've learned in the service of the world?

How can we create a space where we can learn with and from each other? How can we weave our individual strengths, talents and interests together to create a real learning community? How can we support one another? How can we sculpt with warmth?

I'm looking forward to a space where I can bring my own impulse and themes – where I can learn to become concious on many levels, such as studying, working, my own inner development and in relationship to others in social processes.

I hold questions, I hold pictures, and now I am going to share holding a space. I see this space as an unlimited expanding blackboard, wrapped around me and standing ready for my life’s learning, standing ready for your pictures and thoughts, standing ready for us to be creative together. Together we will create our own study books, one experiential page at a time. But my answer will only be as good as your question, and your answers will develop my questions furthur. I look forward to helping hold a space, where creatively together we can find answers in the space between us.

Do I will my own footprints? – Can I say 'yes' to my destiny?