You are not a person.
You are a system that creates a person.
Egosystems is Joost Hagedoorn’s debut book — challenging readers to question long-held assumptions and to see the hidden mechanisms shaping both their inner world and the world we build together.
You are not a person.
You are a system that creates a person.
Egosystems is Joost Hagedoorn’s debut book — challenging readers to question long-held assumptions and to see the hidden mechanisms shaping both their inner world and the world we build together.
Joost HAGEDOORN – Biarritz, France
Amplifying nature's voice
Founder, filmmaker, writer. Building a wilder future, locally and globally.
I founded Rewilding Euskal Herria to restore nature and communities across the Basque territory, working with and aligning local actors and stakeholders, with nature at the head of the table.
Before this I ran Kolenkit Films in Amsterdam for over a decade, producing nature and corporate films.
I also write. Egosystems, a book about perception, blind spots and human nature, is available for pre-order now and you can find a variety of articles on my Substack.
Restore nature
Through rewilding, advocacy, communications and coalition-building — putting nature back in decisions
Write
Translating complex ideas into clear language. Reframing how we see ourselves and the world. Provoking readers to question what they thought they knew
Capture and tell stories
Motion, stills, sound. The world is full of stories that deserve to be seen — the work is finding them and doing them justice
Collaborate
All great things are achieved through collaboration. When our goals align, I am available to help.
It’s you
I recognise you
I recognise your ways
I recognise the way you look
I had forgotten
It’s me
It’s what we share
It is life and growth
It is wither and die
I have missed you
I miss you
I am sorry
I can’t help
You deserve what I have
I don’t want it anymore
You deserve my fortune
If I could give it all away
It’s good to see you
I had forgotten
Even despaired
But you are still there
Why didn’t I listen
Why didn’t I look
What could matter more
So long it took
You are still here
And I see you now
And now that I see you
I will stay here
You can have it all
My everything
You deserve it
As yours was taken away
You have me
I won’t lose you again
I am yours
I am your friend
Let me help
Let me share
Let me tell
What you have to say
Let me do
Let me save
Let me know
What I can say
You are me
And we are you
If only we would realise
Alone is not alone
You deserve my devotion
I owe it all to you
My voice is human
My heart belongs to you
You gave us everything
But we wanted more
Never realising
There is nothing else
The search, the answers
The love, united
Our path can not stay
Forever divided
I will break away
And join you again
And I will speak
My human voice
You deserve my everything
And not only mine
You deserve space
effort and time
I dream about you
And the things you say
I miss you
On this lonely day
You are my mother
You gave us all
You are my home
And still, we took more
Don’t forgive me yet
For you there is time
Me, I’m not sure.
But you will be fine.
I can suffer and lose
It won’t matter in the end
I can die as you did
My oldest friend
I welcome you, but not our cries
I hear what you say, but not our lies
I was mistaken, it’s never too late
To change
I am yours
And yours alone
You are me
And the kingdom
I forgot but not anymore
You are what I am living for
Your story untold, it can not stay
It can not end this way
It’s simple
As love
Words do not
So no more thoughts
We breathe and walk
We live and talk
But we have forgotten it all
Your stories
My voice
My love
My choice
You can have it all
I want nothing else