Your Name | Greta |
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Email Address | gjansing90@gmail.com |
Cohort Assignment | Europe, Africa, and the Middle East with Online Intensive, Winter-Spring 2024 |
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | Currently I am still in the last weeks of my masters degree in the field of future studies. I am further working part time in a small consulting company focused on health in organisations. |
2. What role do you see as yours to play? | I would consider myself a very curious person that loves to interact with other people and thereby come to a better shared understanding of life and how we want to live it. Rather than being an expert in one field I have a certain knowledge in a variety of fields and always try to find synergies between them. So if I should sum that up in a role it would be focusing on mediation, deeper ways of understanding and telling stories. |
3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | I’d like to continue traveling and engaging in small projects in the next years. Further I want to extend the work with organizations on their future visions, values and mission with a focus on the health and well being of the employees as an important ground to build ins and the understanding of which impact the organisations have on their wider environment. |
4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | At the moment I want to learn how to embed the things I have learned in the past years in my daily life and how I can share my experiences best with others. Further I want to get a deeper knowledge on how to implement regenerative practices in concrete actions, especially when it comes to food (e.g. designing regenerative community gardens ). |
5. And for professional growth? | As I am not on a specific career path at the moment rather in the process of how from the experiences I have made I can make a living in the future and have a positive impact at the same time, I see this growth as congruent with my personal growth. |
6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | I see the last 8-10 years since leaving school as an investment in my personal and professional growth where I invested my time and energy into getting to know multiple new perspectives on life. In the last three years I have intensified that by giving up my job in public service and the security of a permanent home for traveling different parts of the world and engaging in projects (mainly volunteering) of people that want to make a difference in life and introduced me to a variety of ways of living in harmony with our environment. |
7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Coming from the background of international politics and public law I have gotten used to an analytical way of thinking and seeing things from a grand scale. After a while this though didn‘t satisfy me anymore as the knowledge and it‘s impact seemed shallow and not leading me in the right direction. Through future studies I got introduced to different approaches of critical and systemical future-orientated thinking. In this regard constructivism and pragmatism have shaped my perspective, lately especially contributions of Richard Rorty and his concepts of anti-essentialism, anti-dualism, language and sensitivity. Further through the work with multiple grassroots organisations I got familiar with basic concepts of permaculture and regenerative agriculture and working with my hands with a connection to the earth has become a great teacher for me. |
8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | What I have been indicating in 7. my philosophy of life is shaped by a variety of perspectives and learnings. One aspect I did not mention yet is my learnings from Yoga, Buddhism and spending time in south east Asia as a contrast to european/german cultural mindset and daily life. This has taught me a great deal about time and how important it is to take enough time in daily life to reflect and be aware of our sourrounings. |
Date Created | February 22, 2024 |