A negative response came from Guldminen: I didn’t get an office in Vasbygade and everyday access to treasures of the recycling station. Well, others will make good use of winning it, I know. Especially that what I wanted there was something slightly different. A job related to recycling. I’d like to raise awareness, make people fall in love with reuse, spread knowledge and provide easy DIY set-ups for private households (I am already doing that for friends).

I love the idea and potential behind Guldminen experiment. And I felt that new ideas, collaborators, money would come just by being part of that mine. So I reversed the sequence of things (office->money, instead of money->office), and I got a ‘no’.

But I won an inspiration coffee with the project coordinator. She knows I want to create a job for myself. And she knows that more than having an office, it makes sense for me to go around offices – companies, initiatives, activists – connecting elements and using them for interactive workshops, treasure hunts about recycling&upcycling that combine the virtual with face-to-face. I am looking forward to that meeting. I am also meeting one more from the field. After Poland, where I landed today, finally…

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*I fancy those prototypes 🙂

I am quite amazed how active I turned out after landing back in Copenhagen late friday evening. Despite resistance, numbness, soul jet-lag, or what was that? Straight to a tantra workshop in Ringsted, the next day a walk in a forest and serving as a book in Menneskebibliotek during young women’s festival organized by KVINFO in Pumpehuset. Balancing different important elements, sustainability on the personal level, as I was teaching and inspiring others at Sisters Academy.

Since then connecting, networking and already holding three face-to-face meetings with different sectors working on different dimensions of sustainability, initiatives I’d like to work for: my friend Helena and her start-up; Jacob, who works on a book for Alternativet party and in a longer term connects art with politics; and Johan from Tinkuy, which entry point is self-development and spirituality community.

It makes me frustrated, I must admit, that people appreciate my ideas, inspiration and involvement, but there’s no budget for my salary. A repetitive scenario that – I know – appears for the sake of showing me something, pushing me towards some necessary alternative. And the alternative is setting my own company, finding my niche, creating a brand.

Ripeness comes when enough is enough. I remember a similar breakthrough when I got tired of waiting for a romantic love. Or when it constantly came to me, was persistently confirmed that I have to also work with tantra. And I will. But on the side of a main job I still need. So I still need your help. As before my ‘start-up’ child is born and grows independent, I want to work for someone.

Goodnight. Time to rest in doing nothing the rest of the evening. This is also art in itself (The Art of…).

After diaries of the w(Hole) from within Sisters Academy, I want to continue sharing…now from my journey of job-hunting.

Back home now, in transition, on the crossroads, with friends. I want to help this law of attraction and find en employer/project collaborators. Will you help? {Day 0.} here we go.

{Day 0 and a half.}

I have some ideas about initial directions and people to contact. Well, most of them are not actually initial, but continuous, just with new perspectives after my recent experiences. Here is the first overview.

I want to – and need to – continue organizing and leading workshops at Tinkuy: Workshop and Interactive Ritual (#4): “100 Faces of ‘each-other’ “ . And more than that. Now I also feel that intuitive tantra massage sessions need to manifest, also to explore how it can serve people (and me) in this context.

My life journey paths want to keep exploring sustainability on different levels. Part of that is surrounding myself with nutritious food, people, spaces, brands. I want to support initiatives and companies by using them and spreading word about them. First step would be research/update on which socially responsible bank to change to, what’s going on with Alternativet party, Tinkuy movement and local organizations helping refugees. I will start from writing to Madeline, Johan and Jacob.

Recycling projects. Sometimes, it feels a little glamorous to turn recycling into a ritual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN6ds6WuiSI. I will contact Peter and Kathrine. Guldminen in Vasbygade is a place I will be following, no matter if I will get official invitation to participate. The answers will come tomorrow. And below is the proof that my passion overlaps with needs from Københavns Kommune:

http://sharingcopenhagen.dk/media/711944/invi_workshop-designkonkurrence.pdf (old deadline, but new project, so would be interesting to find a winner and see if I can contribute somehow…)