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Germination: group playgrimage departed

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Last Saturday, co-coordinator Manja left as a volunteer with a group pilgrimage on the theme of "germination." As a guide and facilitator, she and six others walk the route in eight days. The stages are in silence, but there is good chatter…
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Hooray: it’s the Walk of Wisdom birthday!

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Today, on 21 June, the Walk of Wisdom around Nijmegen celebrates its eighth anniversary. We are happy with it! Jan Willem van Opstal as one of our first pilgrims at the opening in 2015 We founded our foundation in 2011. We wanted to develop…

Inspiration walk “Germination” – report

In April, Manja Bente and Lidia van Engeland organised an inspiration walk in the run-up to International Earth Day. The theme was 'germination'. Below is a report by Manja. Photos by Vivian Cremers. Manja is co-developer of the Walk of Wisdom…
Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck

“I want to live out of love” – Christiane Berkvens- Stevelinck

"You can learn to trust the other person by being completely trusting yourself. For others and, for starters, for yourself.

Annual theme: what is your germination capacity?

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Germination is the annual theme of the Walk of Wisdom in 2023. All that wants life runs out andbrings out what was inside.And I, too, obey the sun.I want to sow and sing,the currently smallgerms and their source Hein Stufkens "Germination…
Elyzeese Velden

“On the road in silence” – New series of silent walks started

"For me, walking in silence is a good way to consciously notice what can be seen, heard and felt in the environment around me. And that environment is also the people or the trees, the plants, the landscape, the season. The silence makes it…

Sky and emptiness: Saturday departure ceremony

This Saturday is our (free) departure ceremony after sunrise: the pilgrim lauds. We walk in silence through the deserted Stevens Church in Nijmegen. In the middle of the beautiful space, we listen to a story from Seasons of Life, the first…
Judith Krebbekx

Sunrise departure ceremony

This Saturday is our departure ceremony at sunrise: the pilgrim's lauds. In the deserted Stevens Church in Nijmegen, we make a quiet walk a little after sunrise and then listen to a story from our first book of hours: Seasons of Life. Below…

Finally at my writing place

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At the end of my first day of Walk of Wisdom, 2.5 years ago, I sat on a bench with this view. I had just walked this pilgrim path, when I saw a man approaching in the distance. I wondered if he was also walking the tour and looked at him,…
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Monica Boschman: “I can hear it in my inner ear.”

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"The outer path around the city and the inner path of the soul [...]" Poem in honour of 750 years of Stevenskerk.