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Goodnight Sun @ Västra Hamnen

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What a magnificent afternoon and evening. Will let the pictures speak for themselves.

Utsikt över sundet vid Scaniabadet

View over the sound at Scaniabadet

Förberedelser inför Goodnight Sun av och med Peter Tegnér, skicklig musiker och gitarrist. Definitivt ett måste!

Preparations before Goodnight Sun by and with Peter Tegnér, skilled musician and guitarist. A definite must if you are in Malmö in July!

Västra Hamnen i Malmö - människor flanerar, fikar, äter glass, badar, skrattar och har kul. Lever livet helt enkelt!

Västra Hamnen in Malmö – people walking, snacking, having an ice cream, taking a bath, laughing, having fun. Living life!

Titanic, populärt ställe att utmana sina egna rädslor. Så också för denna turistande yngling. Jag messade fotot till honom när han kom upp igen!

Titanic, a popular place in Västra Hamnen for challenging ones fears, as this touristing outh discovered when his friends brought him here. I texted the photo to him afterwards, because it turned out so good.

Sprattlar lite med benen under Goodnight Sun

Wiggling my legs during Goodnight Sun.

Mor och son myser.

Mother and son snuggling close.

Be reckless

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I listened to Parker Palmer giving this commencement address to the graduating class at Naropa University, and several times I got goose bumps and shivers. For me, those have become telltale signs that there’s something important and/or very true being said/shared.

BoldomaticPost_Be-reckless-when-it-comes-toThe six suggestions Parker provides on living a life worth exploring are simple. And powerful. So powerful I feel an urge to split this recommendation into six consecutive blog posts.

The first suggestion is: Be reckless when it comes to affairs of the heart.

He urges us all to fall passionately in love with life. And to go boldly, not fearing the vulnerability that is a certain companion when living a life worth living. When we give of ourselves, there will be times when we risk getting hurt. But the alternative, of holding back, of not giving of ourselves, of not letting that happen through me, that is mine to give the world. That’s just too sad to even contemplate.

So – go out there, and be reckless. Love. Live. Create! Because if you are anything like me, you are more afraid of regretting what wasn’t done rather than that which was done, when lying on your death bed. Or?

 

Light travelling – undervalued!

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I flew to London this morning, to attend the 3P conference on Innate Health. I will be away for four nights, and I must say I am very pleased with the size of my luggage. Travelling light is really undervalued, I must say. I have yet, even though I get better at better at light travelling, to come home without something that could have stayed at home because it simply didn’t get used during the trip. Maybe this trip will be a first for that? There’s one thing I forgot though, my travel adaptor stayed at home. Luckily my Airbnb-host had one I could borrow. I immediately put travel adaptor in the template packing list I just created in Trello the other day. 

I did a post in Swedish with a few of the things I’ve started to pay more attention to before/during/after travels, but I am sure there are tips and tricks I’ve yet to learn, so please share yours, if you have any?

Podcast 11/52 – what am I blinding my children to?

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I’ve already recommended the entire Invisibilia-podcast series in one of these podcast recommendations, and I do suggest you listen to each and every show. But here’s a specific episode which is just mind-blowing. At the end, the hosts had me dancing in the street (was outside taking a walk while listening) as I answered YES to the question:

Do you think if we changed our expectations blind people could come to see?

The episode is called: How to become batman and centers around Daniel Kish, a blind man (since he was 13 months old) who since early age uses echolocation to get around.

BoldomaticPost_What-am-I-blinding-my-childreWhen I listen to how his mom raised him, I got really quiet, and looked deep within at how I raise and have raised my children.

Paulette Kish faced the question if she was going to raise him like a seeing child, allow him to explore his world with very few restrictions on him for blindness?

Now. My children are not physically blind. So that specific question has never been a question for me to ponder. But still, as I listen to this show, and hear the story of Daniel, and of his mother, I cannot help but wonder what I am blinding my children to, by the expectations I place upon them? And correspondingly, what am I opening them up to, by other expectations? Are these expectations intentional or unintentional from my part? How aware am I of my expectations, and the result that can spring from them?

#pmjtour rocks!

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I promised you a review of the concert with Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox that I attended last night in Copenhagen, and I am, actually, at a loss for words. It was so good. The skill of the musicians, the voices of the singers, the arrangements of the songs (which I’ve loved since I first heard it!), but also the humor, the tempo, the generosity of the people on stage last night, was something out of the ordinary.

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#pmjtour at the very end of the concert. Me and my Happy Hat coming home, late last night!

 

If the #pmjtour comes anywhere near you – get yourself a ticket and go! At least if you dig the sound of this, which is one of my recent favorite songs, and let me tell you it was explosive in energy last night:

Or rather, just go, ok? You won’t regret it! I promise!

#innoconference hela dagen lång!

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Har hängt på Malmömässan hela dagen, på #innoconference, som är en konferens om hållbara framtidsperspektiv för en sundare värld, i anslutning till #innocarnival som går fredag och lördag där unga visar upp sina tankar och idéer och faktiskt förslag på hur vissa av morgondagens (och kanske tom dagens) problem skulle kunna mötas.

I princip varit den ende som twittrat (mest som @skolvaren) och det förundrar mig ärligt talat. Inte minst för att det är ett så rysligt smart sätt att sammanfatta de guldkorn jag uppfattar och samtidigt ta del av andras uppsnappade guldkorn…. utom i fall som idag, då jag mer eller mindre själv fyllt flödet. Trist! Och ganska icke-innovativt, eller?

Nåja, en av guldkornen idag kom på efterföljande middagen i Malmö Rådhus, så en av mina bordsgrannar som arbetar med lärarutbildning sa att hens främsta uppgift var ”att se till att lärarstudenterna lär sig pendlingen mellan Vad och Hur, för Varför är så självklar att den bara förutsätter jag alltid finns där i bakgrunden!”.

Tyvärr tror jag det är farligt att förutsätta något sådant, men å andra sidan gjorde det mig riktigt glad att höra hens resonemang, inte minst eftersom jag ju älskar frågan Varför!

Utöver detta har jag lyssnat till Lars Haikola, Leo Razzak, Fredrik Warberg, Astrid Kander, och Johan Söderman, där framför allt Fredriks tidsresa till 2050 var särskilt inspirerande, men även Johan, vars brandtal till hiphopen som folkbildning var riktigt tankeväckande.

Johan Söderman

Johan lyfte bland annat det som han ser är skillnaden mellan utbildning (en linjär process med en början och ett slut) och bildning (en cirkulär process som är ständigt pågående).

Bildningsresan – är det den som alldeles särskilt visar att det är vägen som är mödan värd?

Mindblown!

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The two days of The Independence Intensive with Rich Litvin and Steve Chandler didn’t blow my mind. I would have liked more, longer, deeper, more challenges, and above all more interaction with all the magnificent people attending the event.

However, watching Rich turn on his high-flame coaching in a nanosecond has been a true inspiration to witness. I’m gonna be much more fearless and vulnerable myself in my coaching from now on. Thanks Rich for modelling that for me in the most authentic way!

And Steve Chandler, the man with the voice that I struggled not to get stuck on. Now I love that voice, and even more, I love his message. And his humor. Man, that’s one funny man! I will keep on listening to your pods, and read your books, and your generosity is simply amazing. You make me reflect, think and act, and I thank you for that. You’ve flipped my mind several times already, and I look forward to more flips ahead!

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The resources made available to me/us as attendees, both before, during and after the event, all in themselves are value enough for the price of the Intensive. I will continue to grow and evolve as a direct result of all these resources!

1,5 day in. Enter: Steve Hardison.

And my mind blew. Totally.

I’ve never ever experienced presence like that. I’ve never met anyone so present. And it wasn’t the words he said. Not at all. It was where he was coming from. A place of love. 100% love. And 100% willingness to serve.

I am at a loss for words. But during the break after Hardison spoke, my whole body vibrated. And I was filled with a new purpose, a commitment so deep and immediate I feel all shook up.

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The main message from Steve Hardison was simple. Just be me. Whatever that is, be it, and be it fully. Be fully that which I am. And that which I am can change at any moment, and that’s just the way it is. But at the same time, Steve Hardison models beautifully how it’s possible to practice to live a life of love. Cuz love is all there is. Live. And love. Namaste Steve Hardison, namaste.

I have now gotten a resolve for two things:
1) Living and loving life, and doing it by being me.
2) Honouring the gift of life by serving the world and those around me.

Again. My mind just blew. And I love it. And boy am I grateful to myself for doing this sort of thing, attending challenging and potentiallty mindblowing events. What an experience!

When did you last have a mind blowing experience?

What’s my legacy?

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Am attending a two day Independence intensive with Rich Litvin and Steve Chandler and we are asked to play the deathbed game by answering two questions:

What’s my legacy? What contribution do I want to make in the world?

We get a 5 min reflection time, to ponder these questions and our own mortality. Meanwhile Allison Crow is the visual recorder at the event and she’s capturing the deathbed game this way:

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I pick up my phone and start to write an email to myself. My mind immediately wanders towards the Swedish movement the school spring, aka #skolvåren, that I am one of the initiators of, and which for me is a conduit for one of the great passions of my life: the set goal I have to change school systems globally by 2020.

But what lies behind that, what’s the passion driving me? Why do I want to do this?

Well, in short because I see so much wasted and untapped potential just withering and shrivelling away, going unused, perishing. And that’s to the detriment of us all, I tell you. We have challenges today and tomorrow that require something else from humanity than what created the problems now challenging us. And to paraphrase Albert Einstein, you cannot solve a problem from within the same state of mind that created it in the first place.

So, I want more of us (all of us!) to level up. To climb up the ladder of consciousness, to a higher level. That’s what I see is in store for us, for humanity. We have but one way forward if we want to remain here on Earth and that is to level up. There is no doubt in my mind on that one.

I want a world inhabited by people who are consciously creating the world, rather than just reacting to what happens. And that’s why I want to change school systems on a global scale – because in today’s modern society school has a HUGE impact on all of out lives. So we need to make sure it’s an impact for the better, for the good of humanity, for the lives of the born and the unborn.

In short, that’s my contribution to the world.

What’s your legacy?

The Era of Behaviour

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Have you discovered the RSA? If not, please check it out. I’ve listened to several of their events as podcasts these last weeks, and man are they ever thought provoking and mind boggling! Twice I’ve listened to this RSA event on The Era of Behaviour. It is extremely interesting, and I believe I’ll listen to it several more times. Reflecting. Thinking. Going deeper.

There is a video of the highlights that you can see here, but I urge you to listen to the entire podcast including the Q&As from the audience (including a tweet from my dear friend @LordSillion as well!):

What my head is spinning on right now is, to name a few, spheres of personal vs business, the word How as a noun, value based leadership and elevated behaviour. Many of these things I have spent time reflecting on before as well.

I spend a lot of time on the word Why, and the way Dov Seidman talks about How is in a sense a description of the way I think about Why. For me the How he explains is a How infused with a Why, i.e. a sense of value, of ethics, of a higher reason.

Well, as you can tell, I am not done here. My mind hasn’t settled anywhere, it’s just spinning. So, won’t you please listen to this talk on The Era of Behaviour, and tell me what you think about it? Perhaps your head starts to spin in ways I haven’t even begun to consider yet?