How do I develop my keynotes, public speeches and teaching? Where can I best access my personal energy and creativity? 👩🏻💻🎤✨
🛫 Earlier today on my flight from Salzburg to Warsaw, I was sketching my experience design thinking talk and could observe that I was feeling energised, inspired, creative and in flow once again while I was moving 🎡
During my PhD time at Bournemouth University, I discovered the magic of sitting in British double-deck buses. 🚌🚌 When I was going from my flat to uni, I often found myself not wanting to get off at the bus stop as my thinking and creativity were flowing seemingly effortlessly. Nowadays, I often find myself travelling on planes in between conferences with my red (physical) notebook, in which I write, draw and sketch ideas. Beautiful ideas keep flowing as the plane moves and I look outside the window, passing over inspiring landscapes and cloudscapes.
✨ After years of trials, mindfulness and reflections, I am happy I found my personal secret ingredient 🗝, which is the synergy of movement, being offline and sketching in an old fashioned (or in fact, modern again 😉) paper journal. 👩🏻💻🧚♀️🗝✨
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First hiking of the season! 🏔🌷☀️
Simply magic to experience the turn of the season from winter to spring in the mountains. Snow and rock, warmth and sunshine, blue skies, flowers, changing colours, vibrant new energy, and awakening of humans and the nature! ✨
Today was the first small step, ready for more mountain adventures to come this year! 💚
#springishere #hiking #salzburgerland #mountains #mountainlove #girlswhohike #freedom #energy #nockstein #hausberg
Afternoon thinking walk. Blue skies, sunshine, fresh air, snow, river and mountains. What more could I ask for right outside my office door. 💙
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My most creative thinking is done when I’m outside, have mountains around me, can move, walk and run, feel vast nature and free space around me. This is when my mind is in flow and the best ideas for research, writing and teaching get unlocked. 🗝👑🧚♀️
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Practicing mindfulness and being aware of one’s needs and strengths is essential and powerful. Sometimes we only have to be our own personal experience designers to facilitate experiences and spaces that give us the key to access our well of resources and best selves. ✨
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Milano, you impress me every time! Yesterday, when I came up the metro station Duomo and stood in front of the Dome again, I couldn’t help but smile and feel inner happiness. 👑✨
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Milano, for me, vibrates beauty, elegance and atmosphere. The beauty of impressive and graceful architecture, a radiant flair of moda and fashion, most beautiful, elegantly and sharply dressed people everywhere you look, and an atmosphere of joy of living, dolce vita and sophisticated urban lifestyle.
Can’t wait to be back! ❤️
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A very surreal travel experience in Nicosia, the last divided capital.
In the middle of city runs the border that separates the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot sides.
We take our passports and walk over the border, check 1, UN buffer zone, check 2, and suddenly find ourselves in a very different world. 🚧
Culture, language, currency, religion, atmosphere, sounds and smells all change in an instance.
An experience that really left an impression. Difficult to describe, emotional, confusing, speechless, overwhelming, while fascinating and simply surreal at the same time. 🤔
As tourists and humans we cross borders all the time, but this is a very different kind of border, and you can truly feel it.
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Great week at ENTER2019 @ Nicosia Cyprus! Fantastic conference, great content, good fun, and most of all, one of the most wonderful academic communities, one global eTourism family coming together once a year! ✨
This year it has been my 9th ENTER. I remember joining my first conference as a master student, and today I’m super proud of my master students who managed to get a paper accepted and present it at their first ENTER conference! 📚👏
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