I am a happy grandfather of an immensely inspiring family, thanks to the most incredible wife with whom I married 40 years ago. I was for 30 years a business entrepreneur, roller coasting between success and failure. 10 years ago the 2000 bubble forced me to stop and reflect. It was tough, I discovered that I had gone through life blindfolded, prisoner of so many certainties and other conventions. Today I want my off-springs, as far as I can see, to be happy in their lifetime. I believe this can only be achieved if everyone, every living being, is respected, happy and living in peace, in a world respectful of all life and nature. My readings, encounters, analyses make me increasingly aware of the very deep and inescapable changes we face. Even if our world is a complex adaptive system, unpredictable and emergent, I do believe in our possibility to influence it for the better. This motivates my commitment to act, and to do what I can to be the change I want to see in the World.
For past details see http://www.linkedin.com/pub/charles-van-der-haegen/2/487/585 for the future: It's a moving target!
