Welcome to the Future - a Better One
What is wellbeing, really - and what if we made it the measure of a successful economy? Iceland and a handful of other countries have already set off down that path, with women in leading positions. What can we learn from them?
Some say we are entering the Second Machine Age. In the first, machines replaced physical labour; in the second, AI is replacing knowledge work. Then, as now, it is traditionally male-coded work - built on strength, calculation, and control - that is being challenged. Are we moving into a relationship economy, where female-coded skills - care, connection, empathy - grow ever more valuable, precisely because they cannot be replaced by AI in the same way? If so, we stand before a new opportunity to create meaning and prosperity for many - a chance to redefine what wellbeing means in work, leadership, and economics, together.
There is a deeper parallel, too. Just as women are constantly adapting to the nature of hormonal fluctuations, the world may now be forced to adapt to the forces of nature as we disturb its balance. Here lies an opening to think anew: to work with nature's rhythms rather than against them - to lead by building resilience, not division.
Daughters of Iceland - trailer
The documentary Daughters of Iceland - Exploring Female Leadership in a Polarised World ventures into exactly this terrain: what is it in female leadership that can bring us together? Our task is to reimagine the future through Grandma Mimicry - learning from the wisdom of our grandmothers, drawing on their ways of knowing, making, and caring, to dream the world we want to live in. After all, it takes a village to raise a child, which is what the documentary sets out to experience - layer by layer.
Daughters of Iceland - the making of a documentary
DN - Hon leder landet där kvinnorna styr - "ett intressant experiment"
Join us for a late afternoon - on November 25th:
- 16.00 - Meet up outside Skissernas Museum in Lund (Finngatan, 2).
- 16:15 - Walk the Talk: we explore wellbeing in practice using Aikido as a way to overcome conflicts (Lina & Jonas), as well as meet Icelanders and Wellbeing researchers on the way through Lund to the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) (Tegnerplatsen 4).
- 17:00 - Screening of Daughters of Iceland and interactive workshops at IIIEE, where - through Grandma Mimicry and Aikido - we reimagine better futures.
- 18:15 - End
Aikido - a third way to find new paths together
Lina explains: In an increasingly polarized time, it is easy to be lulled into believing there are only two choices: to hold firm to one's position or to give in. Aikido shows a third way, one where you keep your stability and, through movement and off-balancing, change the dynamics so that both parties see the situation from a new perspective. The conflict is then no longer something to be won or avoided, but a movement we can use to find new paths forward together.
This is something we will try in practice during our walk. Our guides are Lina & Jonas; seasoned Aikido practitioners who use this format for leadership training.
Initiators:
- Sólveig Jóhannesdóttir - Master Student, IIIEE
- Lina Gustavsson, Creative Strategist, Regenesis Consulting
- Jonas Öste Klevhag, Opportunity Creator, Network Agency Sweden
- Kristín Grímsdóttir - Freelance
- Carl Eneroth - Filmmaker, Stories That Unite Us
Supported by:
Håkan Rodhe, Senior lecturer, IIIEE
Mellan Rummen (Between Spaces) is a Walk the Talk concept designed for boosting collective intelligence, based on the idea of pay-it-forward, hold the space and explore system questions too complex to solve alone. At the core is the art of navigating paradoxes – not as a problem to be solved, but as a tension to be held. To hold the space is to hold liminal space: the threshold between what was and what is not yet, where new understanding can emerge.
Mellan Rummen on Wellbeing has been tried in Stockholm, as well as other topics in Almedalen, Frihamnsdagarna, and the book Loud Summer.
We start on time. Limited seats available. Sign up below. If the event is full, please contact carl.eneroth@ssilab.se for a place on the waiting list. The event is in English and Swedish.
