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+ | One of the things I disliked with my studying & working lifestyles was the forced sedentarity induced by the fact of having to follow courses / having to work in a give place. However, my initial hypothesis was to become self-sufficient, | ||
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+ | It was one of the conclusions of this Transiency: I prefer to travel than to garden. As I discovered this in April, I traveled a lot ever since. | ||
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+ | The very first important trip of this year was to Slovenia, a place where Amélie lived for a couple of years. After visiting Ljubljana and some very nice friends there, we moved to the countryside to spend some time at [[http:// | ||
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+ | Rolling Hedgehog is a self-sufficiency experiment, led by Amélie' | ||
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+ | It was a wonderful stay, however I understood that I would not transform it into a lifstyle. I would love to introduce slices of several weeks of this lifestyle, but I would also like to be able to escape it, and see other people, other places, other parts of the world. | ||
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+ | The self-sufficiency hypothesis was dead. | ||
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+ | ===Being Coached=== | ||
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+ | Besides being actively followed by the FoAM Brussels' | ||
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+ | During six sessions, we tackled deeply rooted brakes which left me doubtful and/or discouraged. Through very precisely phrased and chirurgically-targeted questions, Vali helped me unravel deep nodes in order to constructively & effectively move forward. | ||
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+ | For instance, after six sessions, I was able to precisely phrase what I felt was my mission in life. I also learned practical ways to be more efficient in my work, especially with unpleasant tasks, and how to deal with emotionnally perturbing events. | ||
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+ | I think that this process was one of the two most effective ones in the whole Transiency. I feel like I am work - and do stuff in general - more effectively, | ||
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+ | And yes, I will talk about the second process later. | ||
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+ | ===Forecasting=== | ||
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+ | Between April and June, the FoAM Brussels Core Team guided me through the [[http:// | ||
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+ | At the end of the process, we obtained four scenarios representing extreme situations. Scenario narratives can be found here: | ||
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+ | Such scenarios can be used as a compass. Thanks to this work, I could better understand which of my decisions would guide me to one or the other futures. | ||
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+ | We also designed a masterplan of what to do from today on to reach the possible futures, which helped understand which actions I should start now in order to reach the future I want to implement. | ||
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+ | ===Meditating=== | ||
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+ | At our very first Transiency meeting, I was talking with Maja, Rasa & Nik about my issues of body-mind connection, and my focusing issues I was experiencing since the middle of my studies. At that time, Maja had advised me to go through the [[https:// | ||
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+ | It was worth the waiting. | ||
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+ | I remembered mentionning the quest for "inner peace" to Vali during our first session. This cycle was basically a course on how to find inner peace. With very simple meditation techniques inherited from buddhism, we would quiet, slowly but surely, whatever wind or storm troubling our souls. | ||
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+ | I felt more body conscious, and did recover most part of my focusing abilities. But I also managed way better with emotionnally perturbing events, increased my perseverance in unpleasant or tedious tasks, managed to get back to contemplation on a daily basis, and logically started to find beauty more frequently on my way. | ||
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+ | You may have guessed it: with coaching, going through this process was the most positively transformative experience I lived this year, and I cannot not stop being lyrical about it. | ||
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+ | ===Getting Inspired=== | ||
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+ | In May, I was invited by Eva Bakselett to teach in a workshop at Schumacher College, a mythical teaching place devoted to ecology I had heard of numerous times. It was a wonderful experience, mainly because of the incredible people I have met there. | ||
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+ | On the picture on top of this section, you can see two people. The guy is a former graphic designer. After three months of work, he found out that working behind a screen was not his way. So he knocked at the nieghboring baker' | ||
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+ | And he is only one example of the amazing people I met at the College. And he is only one example of the amazing people I met this year in Totnes, Nantes, Marseille, Paris, Brest and so on. | ||
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+ | I want to keep meeting diverse people in the upcoming years. With diverse interests, diverse opinions, and amazing life trajectories. Because it is so pleasant & enriching, and it helps me so much re-shape my vision of the world. | ||
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+ | ====Summer - Experimenting==== |