{"id":66734,"date":"2025-07-03T22:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T20:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=66734"},"modified":"2025-07-03T22:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T20:20:26","slug":"being-inclusive-means-learning-to-be-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/being-inclusive-means-learning-to-be-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Inclusive Means Learning to Be Human"},"content":{"rendered":"Bart Vanmechelen is a member of the leadership team of the newly founded Section for Inclusive Social Development at the Goetheanum. Characterized by a sense of social responsibility and inspired by his enthusiasm for spiritual depth, he now sees inclusive social development as a humane work of art.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFranka Henn: In preparing for our conversation, you sent me a selfie in which you're wearing a teeny woolen hat that points upwards like an antenna. I laughed so much! Whenever we see each other, I'm struck by your warmth and cheekiness. Where did you get this sense of humor?\n\n\n\nBart Vanmechelen: It is very alive in our family. You can't take yourself too seriously. We like to be cheerful and joyful in company. My wife had knitted the hat, but it wasn't finished yet. I put it on because <div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bart Vanmechelen is a member of the leadership team of the newly founded Section for Inclusive Social Development at the Goetheanum. Characterized by a sense of social responsibility and inspired by his enthusiasm for spiritual depth, he now sees inclusive social development as a humane work of art. Franka Henn: In preparing for our conversation, you sent me a selfie in which you&#8217;re wearing a teeny woolen hat that points upwards like an antenna. I laughed so much! Whenever we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12420,"featured_media":66438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8797,9182,8845],"tags":[11667,8798,11672],"class_list":["post-66734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversation-en","category-healing-arts","category-social","tag-ausgabe-24-2025-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-27-28-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}