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Why I am leaving Instagram
The reasons to leave Meta are piling up. I have been thinking about leaving Instagram and Facebook for a while and during my last retreat I made the decision and created the comic below. In this blogpost I explain my reasons. Political aspects The company and its policies are shifting to the right. With a more general view this shows in Zuckerberg being an active supporter of Trump. In the user experience on the Meta platforms it shows in more fake news and more hate speech: Metas fact...
My First in-Person Training for Generative Scribing
In January 2025, I offered my first face-to-face training for Generative Scribing at dock 11 eden in Berlin Pankow. Afterwards, everyone asks: “ So, how did it go?” and I find that hard to answer. On the one hand, there are so many ways to answer the question: there are the logistics (food, space, materials…), then the general atmosphere and finally the content of the work. And in all of this, I can only ever describe MY impression, which is totally subjective.
Book Club “Generative Scribing: A Social Art of the 21st Century”
Fall is here, my favorite time for studying and new beginnings.
„Generative Scribing: A Social Art of the 21st Century“ by Kelvy Bird is the standard reference work about GenerativeScribing, a live visualization method that I practice and teach. Here’s what the book is about:
Your life as a map
Half of the year is over and it’s a great time to have a birdseye view of your life, business or work, or current project. In this blog post, I present you a playful visual activity, that I got to know from the brilliant facilitator Miren Lauzirika Jauregi at INNpower by EmakumeEkin: drawing a map of your life.
Time for me, myself and I
I started doing yearly reflections and creating a vision for myself many years ago. At the beginning it was just some journaling questions that I answered together with friends, mostly on a cozy afternoon before the New Years Eve celebrations. The first thing that I understood from these, was that many things could be an achievement, not only a good grade or other outside rewards. Being a good friend could be an achievement. Breaking up with a person that wasn’t good for me could be an achievement. For a type-A person like me that was a big shift.
Sustainability and Self-Care
Many clients know me for translating sustainability topics into illustrations. For a while now I’ve also offered workshops for self-reflexion and selfcare. The latter is often associated with bubble baths and face masks and is therefore seen as a luxury. Transitioning to a sustainable way of living on the other hand is so crucially necessary it hurts. So what do they have to do with each other?
A New Home on the Internet
Sometimes things take time. I had that good old faithful website that I created back when I was still in artschool with only a handfull of clients. It followed me allong my journey, changed with me as I evolved, took turns and grew. I knew one day I would need a new, more flexible and more professional home in this world called “Internet” but you know the game: There’s a client project and then there’s the next client project and in between you have to do tax declarations, want to go on holidays and so on and so on.