Aernout Zevenbergen
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Aernout Zevenbergen Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Men, masculinity, spirituality, public speaking, healing, jou alism and Africa.
- Best Sellers
- Spots of a leopard - on being a man
- Career Focus
- Author, speaker, jou alist
- Affiliation
- self employed
I am a jou alist, author, speaker and counselor. My base is Cape Town, South Africa, where I've lived since 2003. Over the last ten years I've been intensely involved with the topic of masculine identity (identities) in Africa and based on that research wrote a very personal book on "manhood": Spots of a leopard.
Many see this as "the book on men in Africa", it has been named "the most exceptional book on masculinity in Africa" and indeed is a book dealing with masculinities in Africa, "Spots of a leopard" in its essence is a book on being a man. World wide.
Over the last few years my career has moved from jou alism to a more advisory role. I still write: blogs, articles, content, and books.
Since my book first became available, I've been invited to participate as speaker, debater, presenter and lecturer at universities, government-organised conferences, international seminars and private occasions. My presentations have taken place in Califo ia, New Hampshire, Florida, Belgium, the Netherlands, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa.
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How to enjoy your anger
"The Joy of Anger?" You might think: The man has gone utterly nuts... Who wants to be angry? Who's ever enjoyed being angry? No one, I guess. Being angry is like riding a fiery dragon on steroids, through the flames of hell. Being in the midst of a rage is, how shall I put it...
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One Simple Act of Healing
Psychology is a fascinating field of study. Could I choose my University education again, I'd probably add the study of the psyche to my Political Science. Why do people do what they do? What are the stories we tell ourselves? What happens in that mind of mine? How does the boundary look between the exte al, and the internal? Is that area comparable to where, in geology, the one tectonic plate moves under the other and create havoc, later on?
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How to improve self esteem
Self esteem are the set of values we place on our own personality. We can also see it as the mixture of capabilities we want to display to the world out there: family, friends, colleagues, and clients. But self worth also is the means with which we present ourselves to ourselves. Self worth is the series of tales we tell ourselves about ourselves. And it is via those stories that we either manage to achieve our goals, or get stumped in a rut and flop to achieve our ambitions.
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The Flesh Off Your Bones - Transformation from Within
Most 'personal growth' or 'self development' of today seems to take an extremely careful approach to either 'the personal' or 'the self'. It's almost as if nothing's supposed to really make a difference. Not really, anyway. "Spirituality", this other highly contaminated word of our day and age, too seems mainly to be used to plaster the cracks on the walls of our lives, or act as a "fast-releasing" method to dodge the pains and sufferings that come with being alive.r
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Words and Wound - A Male Rape Victim Walks His Path
He had come to see me that Monday afte oon, a few months ago. Just a couple of days earlier he had been raped in jail; four men held him down while a fifth one abused him. “My soul has been destroyed.” We drank home-made juice on my balcony. I told him: “I hear what you say. Can you believe however, anywhere in your ‘system’ that your soul can’t be destroyed? It’s our ego’s – our self-perceptions – that get hammered. Our souls can never be doused in water – they are an undying fire, deep within. A soul is a tiny piece of God.” He recognized what I spoke about, and took it to heart.
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The Tales Men Tell
Men, masculinity, myths and archetypes guarantee to get people all stirred up. Especially feminists. Either in sheer enthusiasm because the ‘untouchables’ get touched by something other than the usual stuff men get excited about (ie cars, chicks and chips); or otherwise in anger, disbelief and even disgust for it’s for some not ‘politically correct’ enough (‘politically correct’ meaning: not within their clearly defined ideological boundaries.
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