The last couple of months have challenged us both in private and business-life. My corona-journey started on March 11th with becoming sick for 2 months. Completely shutting my system down. Which meant that I had to stay horisontal. Could not “save” or navigate the business into new developments. After those two months came a slow recovery period. I took that opportunity to take a few more steps back and observe how the world and ways of doing business and organising people was drastically changing. We’ve pivoted into a digital space faster than we could have imagined and organisations are becoming familiar with new ways of working.
Now I am rested, balanced and sort of re-born with a fresh perspective, yet with the knowledge and experience of the field of visual facilitation. Together with Nikki and the team we’re re-booting our business in order to support the society and people in their way forward. We’ll be delivering more remote digital scribing and step up our game in creative visual services like art-walls for the office or animated videos.
Incredibly honoured that I was inspiration for Deepak Arora’s drawing here. I posted the picture on instagram the other day with a feeling of hope and humble confidence that this autumn we’ll be able to turn things around and make it even better than before. Because there is no going back. Only forward. And the quote on the drawing is an extract from poet and visual artist Kahlil Gibran.
“If you choose silence, then be silent. When you speak, do so until you’re finished. Half the way will get you no where. Half a life is a life you didn’t live. ”
(The entire poem Half Life is much longer. I’m posting it in the end for the inspired one.)
This picture was taken on the day me and Nikki decided that #MindparkMalmö at Slagthuset will be the host of our new studio. A place we chose because of their track record of building community and nurturing collaboration. There in the back you see the entrance. And we can’t wait to welcome you soon. Moving in day: 21 September, 2020.
See you soon 🙂
Half Life
“Do not love half lovers
Do not entertain half friends
Do not indulge in works of the half talented
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
Do not silence yourself to say something
And do not speak to be silent
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half a drink will not quench your thirst
Half a meal will not satiate your hunger
Half the way will get you no where
Half an idea will bear you no results
Your other half is not the one you love
It is you in another time yet in the same space
It is you when you are not
Half a life is a life you didn’t live,
A word you have not said
A smile you postponed
A love you have not had
A friendship you did not know
To reach and not arrive
Work and not work
Attend only to be absent
What makes you a stranger to them closest to you
and they strangers to you
The half is a mere moment of inability
but you are able for you are not half a being
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life”
Poem by Kahlil Gibran
Mina The Legend 