‘Rituel du Papillon’ project has been designed and developed by Club de la Faye since 2012 and manifested in Bremen in 2013. Here is what I did there…

• Initiating the idea of different way of performance preparation and group work (workshops + work on the floor+ inviting outsiders-potential new performers)
• Communicating, sending meeting reminders + connecting with old performers + collecting texts like Transformation Rooms, props list and workshop descriptions
• Teaching Unit 2^nd edition (powerpoint update, evaluation sheet)
• PR (Explosive program + press release text + emergency PR-spreading the word in new German network)
• Contacting Jonas for music and projectors
• Bremen visit August, connecting, designing, structuring discussions and to-do lists
• Creating texts, overviews like to do list, props list for Bremen and responsibility division
• Leading 2 interaction workshops + a session with fishing out memories and each others’ talents + character development session
• Introducing new pipeliners
• Participating in others’ workshops, keeping the spirit up
• Designing the key system + other idea generation
• Setting up CDLFs account
• Introducing and inspiring new members and performers, together incubating new ideas

It has been our biggest production and I feel very inspired and privileged to have been working with so many transformative projects and incredible people. The film has just been cut-final by Johan Verdensfred.

• Communication, preparing overview, campaign plans and leading meetings
• Networking and finding places to campaign with Yasuni + Totem (Dome of Visions, Republique, Earth Day, Roskilde Festival: Dream City and Triangle Project)
• Social media + online marketing responsible (facebook, newsletters)
• Updating php files for iFrame, updating tumblr, mailchimp and You Tube (accreditation of our blog URL+ clickable links), Totem and iFrame improvements ideas and coordination with Joachim and Kasper
• Text production: facebook posts, 4 newsletters, application (Dream City, Roskilde Radio, Dome of Visions and more), letters to NGOs and Ecuadorian ambassador (both in English and Danish), text changes for tak-emails, blog (in Danish and English)
• Yasuni database responsible: gathering data from Gmail, Google contacts, Totem, Mask App, hand-written sheets, camera&tablet (Face-to face). All in all data in CRM, …. contacts in Mailchimp
• Communication and relation-building with other departments: Mikkel (CRM), Sanne (call centre), Bertil (text&photos for ibis.dk)
• Translating some texts Danish-English for Dorthe, Malene
• Helping develop ideas for OD gymnasium workshops (Sierra Leone and diamonds) with Thilde
• Preparing summer party (memory-photos, projector, speakers)
• Uploading hundreds of photos and tak-emails
• Some volunteer coordinator tasks: communication, inspiration, initiating ideas and dividing tasks
• Events coordination (transporting totem, gathering volunteers, seeing to campaign kit like elastics, masks, paint, etc.)
• Research on Yasuni to better communicate on social media, newsletters and strategies like lobbying, events, COP19
• Research and preparation for COP19
• Plan on how Yasuni contacts and experience can serve IBIS after November
• Handing over responsibilities/tasks (preparing a farvel-kit, including knowledge and documentation)

…and it has been one of the best, most inspiring and creative jobs I have ever had 😉

thank you for that experience, Iwona Rejmus.

In the last weeks I was researching a lot and communicating with many people, because I was searching for a job, a meaningful job.

Sustainability on different levels and working with and for people, as a starting point. And adding to it the whole set of my kaleidoscopic skills and experiences. Having that, different areas I could give myself to.

Have you experienced looking back at old texts you wrote, workshops and ‘surprises’ you created for others, your roles in a teamwork you chose when you could chose yourself… and realizing that they are revolving around similar things you are apparently drawn to?

I can feel my element has to do with contributing to a project by using my (performer) presence and passion to pass on knowledge, values, draw attention to new perspectives and inspire, encourage people…

Here are only some job-searching/skill developing tracks I’ve been focusing on for the last weeks:

1. Garbage Queen, creating an intimate relation to trash …and infecting others

This manifested through wide research on sorting garbage in private households and connecting to a lot of people that work with recycling and upcycling. Searching also for partners to apply for funds from Miljøministeriet. My initial intuition and little research on what’s needed to improve garbage-sorting (people’s actual habits and beliefs) was confirmed by official studies performed by Mona Jensen and DARE2.

Sustainability on the environmental level: Promoting feeling and practice of responsibility for environment and other people.

2. Melting prejudice, transforming stereotypes through facilitating authentic meetings between real people

This manifested through applying for a job at Gadens Stemmer and contributing to Menneskebiblioteket.

Sustainability on the inter-personal level:

Promoting diversity and mutual learning between different people, perspectives

3. How important touch is. Communicating and exploring one another through body, sensuality, sexual energy: Tantric Massage

This manifested through making together with Chris a ritualized Tantra Massage workshop that will happen on the 12^th December: “Winter warmth, sexual energy and a taste of chocolate”

Sustainability on the (inter-)personal level: Promoting wholeness of being, authentic expression and interaction through various channels, not only words

4. Meanwhile, I also made a four edition of my Workshop and Interactive Ritual “100 faces of ‘each other’ ” and was an assistant at PURPLE DOOR for London Faerie.

Sustainability on the (inter-)personal level: Promoting what I believe is worth spreading, at the same time developing my skills to teach, facilitate, hold space for people.

5.  As much as I feel resistant to working for free, I of course have to do it…cause it’s important.

This manifests through spreading the word that needs to circulate, like refugee situation. Just came back from the info-meeting by Other Story and I feel I want to help, but overwhelmed by how much it’s needed. I believe many people feel the same, they need to be given a clear task and concrete tasks are many, as so many different organizations and volunteer groups needs hands…in different forms Therefore, I decided to create a Jule Kalendar, where people who want to help get a simple tips on where and how. Receiving by giving – Santa Claus said this season.

Sustainability on the globally (inter-)personal level (or what?):

Promoting practical responsibility for “all that is not my business” that actually extends inner powers over what we thought is the limit of our capacity.

I am as always juggling with many balls at once, balls in different shapes and colors, which make the process maybe less bearable, but definitely trains my ability to see and handle the whole rainbows.

Developing software and designing experiences & learning spaces

…two different processes and methods, but they have also a lot in common, which can possibly only be seen by a Sociologist (and Perfomer) with additional IT background. I make my 2 educations extend each other, learn from one another…and see a broader perspective.

That’s why I am a precious asset to a Software/Web Development team – cause I can understand, talk to and connect its different elements: presale people, analysts/researchers, external partners and suppliers, developers, testers and a customer. And not only customer, but users!

A software system wants to be simple, functional and make users happy.

A development process can be both fun and professional.

System design and development should involve end users along the way. Because it’s not IT specialists, but cooperation between them and users, that is the strongest resource in delivering a good product.

And process is an intrinsic part of any product – also research, design, development and post-production usage. Both lessons learned and influence (not to mention benefits) a new system has on a company’s clients, partners and market in general. New ways it makes people interact…

And here a question of ethics, trend-setting and leading by example also comes into a picture.

A good product can inspire other brands, can change users’ behavior, can set new trends and values. And here a concept of green IT, sustainability on different levels and CSR can be taken into account.

I want to closely work with end-users. And connect them with developers to make them use each other’s knowledge and experience in a more optimal way. I create trust, I speak languages from different professional universes. I can translate technical language into a human language…and further even into poetry.

I see a broader picture. I am a specialist in being a generalist.

Here you can read more about what I want to work and contribute with when it comes to web/software development.

When I was half-dreaming, an interesting idea came to my mind. My profile is very unique and indescribable and I want to break this pattern of others seeing my skills from one angle only. I consider working for or supporting projects, companies, organizations voluntarily for a week or two. To get insight, connect face-to-face, learn and extend what they do with my perspectives, interdisciplinary contribution. To turn the imaginary, abstract into hands-on, tangible.

The experiment is called ‘I am yours for one week’.

What I initially have in mind is contacting: Menneskebibliotek, Gadens Stemmer, some refugee-related project (Other Story or Trampoline House), some media company (to inspire for stories and gather stories, interviews, treasures) or some startup (preferably with CSR mission), as I am a good interdisciplinary “octopus”.

If you have other suggestions who I could connect with, let me hear you.

I realized I create a separation in my mind between a deep love relationship I dream of and my life purpose. Because my relationship will be exclusive and go against me being and working with other people? No. They need to be one, part of each other, support each other. That’s what I want.

I also realized (again) that my life purpose cannot start from money. Yes, I am goal-oriented now, cause I need a job, but when it comes to life purpose, money will be a potential side-effect. Creating my own company can create an overlap(money-life purpose), and this at this stage is easier than doing something meaningful with salary, while working for someone. Unless life proves me wrong and this I of course also hope.

Min ven skrev til mig: “Måske får du mere held med at søge efter arbejde, hvis du skriver i de rigtige facebook-grupper. Her vil jeg især foreslå Freelancere & Arbejdsgivere i Mediebranchen På med et professionalt profilbillede og skriv i gruppen, hvad du kan og vil, og at du leder efter arbejde/opgaver. Og at du er skarp til konceptudvikling og den slags. Bare giv den gas!”

Thank you, Emil. And you other contributors, please share if you know other channels I didn’t think about. Hugs

I can’t make up my mind. Seriously. I feel that it’s too ego-driven, goal oriented, I am afraid of wrong choices and wasting energy on wrong choices. Funny enough, 3 days ago I wrote I need to surrender more, trust more.
What I really want is a combination, variety, I don’t want to choose. And on some level I won’t have to, I believe, but I need to find this level, this door, or let it find me. I want my job(s) to be fun, inspiring and touching. Thank you to those people in my life that remind me that I not only can but I have to want it all!