hen I was off to London for a three days exploration of the city. I felt refreshed and re-energized after my travel when I returned early this week. I love walking around the City of London.
This long weekend trip …
e have moved from Summertime to Autumn. I am mulling over actions and deep thoughts while revisiting the past and exploring the present and the future. I have been involved in projects related to peer learning since the latest April …
“When we are curious, we engage the world by exploring, learning, and making meaning from our discoveries” — @ariannahuff
Curiosity is essential in our modern world and its importance. How do we develop curiosity and future skills?
Through this series …
Embracing complexity while engaging
“Education would be transformed if #learning how-to-learn was considered as important as what was to be learnt. To master the skills needed in the future, hand out fishing rods, not fish.” — @simbeckhampson
…“Foreign experiences
Meeting Community Hosts.
Meeting with Jillian Reilly, founder of Antacara
have explored a possible collaboration with Antacara Frontiers. I met in person Jillian Reilly, the founder of this game-changing initiative, earlier this week in Paris. See this Twitter …
Visualizing ourselves.
The Workshop
In this 20-hour workshop, divided into two days and four half days, my Cube School colleagues and I were invited to reflect on the notion of identity. We designed unique forms to represent ourselves by exploring …
hat do your modern professional learner and designer’s toolkit, resources, activities, and communities look like? From time to time, I find it worthwhile to update and turn it into resources to use and iterate while experimenting and doing projects. To …
Beyond Leadership – Some Dimensions and Emergent Practices.
During an immersive digital and F2F art experience at the exhibition ‘Beyond Limits’, this photo was brought by Team Lab during the Japonismes 2018 Festival in Paris, France.
‘Leadership’ is not on …
Connected and disconnected.
Discover some resources and insights for thinking about and developing your relationship with connectivity, climate change and futures thinking.
Connected to our planet
Do you know Zara Forman? On the about page of her website, it …
try to have a slow walk every other day and bike one or two times per week. I also enjoy reading printed books and newspapers, using a slow journalism approach, and attending art exhibitions.
…“Get some fresh air, and go
ast May, I went to a superb exhibition at the Army Museum in Paris, ‘Napoléon The Strategist’. It helped me understand what the quote below means as I saw how Napoléon used his skills as ‘a military genius’.
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Workplace Futures & Nowness.
“Outside of work (your) people are learning in connected ways.” — @MichelleOckers
Yes, we do.
Experiencing Collective Digital Arts
Are we seeing the emergence of collective digital art experiences?
I wonder, because I have been …
Mapping – a way to make sense of the chaos
“Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.” – Bruce Lee
It all starts with my curiosity
I am inquisitive about many interests and …
Innovation: what does it take?
We live in an age of collective learning and connection. It can be easy to get to know each other. It is the same for collaborating and cooperating on meaningful and impactful projects.
It takes …
Travelling. Explorations and observations. Dive in.
Since I was born, I have lived in different worlds. I was born in France and had Cambodian, Vietnamese and Chinese roots. I speak and write in English and French and can understand and …
Future Skills: Building 21st Century Skills
…“How do you teach people to be more comfortable with ambiguity?”
My response was: “The first thing we need to do is give them projects to do where we can’t know what the right
Learnability. What are the ways to activate it?
Discover my experience and resources to unlock your learning potential now.
…“Learning agility is a mind-set and corresponding collection of practices that allow leaders to continually develop, grow and utilize new
Source: visual created by @gapinvoid. “Curiosity Is as Important as Intelligence”.
…“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
– William Samuel Johnson“One of our beliefs is that curiosity is an essential human quality.
“I don’t think learning is defined by a building or a certificate. It’s defined by a posture, a mindset and actions taken.” — Seth Godin
This is a point of view that I share as well. To contribute to collective …
Embracing Not Knowing in a World of Uncertainty & Constant Change
“My 6-word memoir: I don’t know… let’s find out” #staycurious#gamefulmind” — @valarywithawhy
When was the last time you said to yourself or someone those three words: I …
Having a beginner’s mind. Why, ways and which to be in motion.
“Empty mind, ready for anything, open to everything; beginner’s mind many possibilities, experts few.” — Shunryu Suzuki
Our world is in constant change. On technological, societal, …
earning something new daily helps me to grow and thrive. Whether in a project, on my own, in a conversation, in a community. It is not necessarily work-related most of the time, something of interest or fun. It could be …
On the go. Listening to podcast to keep learning.
The Value of Slow Media
…“Slow media is not for the distracted masses, it’s for the focused few.
Go ahead and subscribe to a few. Slow media is good for us”.
n exhibition is an interactive experience cultivating my curiosity through emotions, artefacts, photos and words in a connected world.
…“An exhibition is an argument, but conveyed differently, through objects and with much less text. It’s a very different endeavor, and
The Neo-Generalist — Why & What
fter I read the book, The Neo-Generalist, by Kenneth Mikkelsen and Richard Martin, thoughts, feelings, and stories shared resonated as I shifted into a world of constant change.
A generalist has specialities
Continuous learning. I share why and what shifting in a world of constant change is all about. Read on.
A few years ago, I wrote this blog post ‘Are we in the age of collective learning and co-creation?’ How …
Connectedness Era
Divergence is as important as convergence.
New ways of working and health are related and interesting. Topics such as remote work, sitting and standing desks, walkability, wearable technologies and connected life spaces caught my attention. Deep-tech …
avigating Knowledge Flows Fast & Slow. There is value in going deeper into an uncertain and fragmented world. We think critically, respond, contribute to online conversations while adding value regarding the context. We connect, contribute and unplug when needed.
Do …
Business Education For All
Some observations
“We’ll see if MOOCs bring about the democratisation of education or just the mass consumerisation of good lecturing.” — @gpetriglieri
If you explore the emerging trends in learning, you have not missed MOOCs’ emergence …
Wander: how can we do so with creative generalists in our networked society?
On Generalists
“Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”- E.B. White
Many people advocate …
Sensemaking: Why, What & How
n March 2013, I visited the exhibition ‘Soleil Froid [Cold Sun]’ at the Palais of Tokyo in Paris. The photo above makes me think of our pattern recognition and sensemaking abilities and practices. How …
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