Hey fellow human, This is a piece that feels pivotal to write about my work, my life and my relationships - including you. I hope you stay even when it gets edgy. Or especially then. ❤️ I started coaching 11 years ago. As part of a leadership program at ustwo, the global leadership team was introduced to the foundations of coaching by two Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) coaches. It was a weekend of solid agreements, principles, frameworks, pair practice and group reflection. To say that...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
Hey, Reader, In my last letter, I described a very particular moment that torments me. It’s a moment where something is looking to emerge through me: an idea, a piece of writing, a truth - but I shrink and block it. It’s the moment I risk being seen for who I truly am, and my fear enters the room. To protect me from the danger out there, pulling out all the old stories I learned as a child about what I am allowed to be, to say and to create. That moment is blocking my creativity from...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Happy belated Spring Equinox, Eid and Nowruz. Marking a new beginning, a new energetic year - and for me, marking my birthday tomorrow. I celebrate the return of the light in all possible ways. It’s been a dark year, collectively and for me, personally. I’ve been on a descent over the last year, and I wanted to tell you about it because it’s archetypal. And because we’re standing at the edge of collapse and might need some kind of collective orientation towards something new. Maybe my journey...
4 months ago • 7 min read
Today is International Women's Day. The day we celebrate women, a glimpse of what could be - before patriarchy goes back to normal tomorrow. Kind of like this snow temporary sculpture from a local park a few weeks ago. Alas, here we are - living in a time when so many women and girls across the world suffer IMMENSELY at the hands of men - an unconscious, childish, immature masculine. Today, I think of my mother, my grandmothers, aunts, cousins and all the women of my own lineage. I sit with...
5 months ago • 6 min read
Hey fellow change maker, Happy New Year from snowy Copenhagen, and from this katsura tree named Heart Tree (yes, that is HER name). ❤️🌳 Yesterday, our family of four sat down for our annual retrospective - to reflect on the year’s moments of joy, difficulty and celebration - and on what we are carrying forward in the year to come. As we drew the timeline of all the beautiful moments of our family life, one thing was clear: how deeply the ancestral stories are becoming woven into our family’s...
7 months ago • 3 min read
Dear, Reader As many of us sit down for, gathered with family around the Christmas tree, perhaps presents wrapped and food abundant, I sit with the original myth we are celebrating these days - the birth of Jesus, a Palestinian Jew - born in Bethlehem. I'm not religious, but I sit with what it means to be human in a time where a part of our humanity is suffering immensely and unjustly. The real people of Bethlehem today are under siege, the destruction systematic and relentless. So I sit with...
7 months ago • 3 min read
Dear fellow change maker, Happy Winter Solstice. 🖤✨🔥☀️ Here in Scandinavia, these days are really dark. While the world around me rushes with frenzy to finish it all before the Christmas deadline, my whole being resists the mad tempo. I remind myself daily to slow down, sit quietly, and just be present. In nature, this is a magical threshold, when it feels as if time is suspended between dark and light, past and future, and the moment of death and stillness before rebirth. For me, the...
7 months ago • 3 min read
Hi beautiful human, A few weeks ago, the third annual Regenerative Stemmer (Regenerative Voices) gathering took place in the beautiful Gribskov north of Copenhagen. I was unexpectedly invited to do the opening address and keep the fire as part of the opening and closing ceremonies together with Kompagniet ILT🔥. During the talk, the sky opened up out of the blue, right at the very moment I was speaking about the friction of conflict, so I know Nature was with us. The talk seemed to resonate...
10 months ago • 5 min read
Hey beautiful human, I've been pondering a question this weekend: How do you come back into everyday life from a life-changing experience that somehow shifted who you are? I'm reflecting on this, as I'm processing the gathering I just came home from. I am taking it slow and letting things settle. I spent Friday with 130 regenerative change-makers (and Thursday to prepare), coming together to share our stories, experiences, and hold important questions of our time. It wasn’t just any old...
10 months ago • 4 min read