May: Patricia in Sweden

The Swedish coaching firm “Lots/Mindo” whose CEO Hans Akerbloom, I met at the World Business Academy’s Global Mind Change Forum in September 2005, brought me to Sweden the first week of May.

Before I even got there, a huge article appeared in “Dagens Industri,” Sweden’s Wall Street Journal. There were several exciting events, including lunch with Scandinavian Business Leaders in a historic Stockholm hotel and several days at a conference center surrounded by parks and forests outside of the city center. Megatrends 2010 made the TV news twice!

Initially I worried that Scandinavia (which practically invented Conscious Capitalism) might not appreciate hearing about it from a U.S. based author. How wrong I was. Not only did folks feel revitalized by the message, they were excited to extend their take on Conscious Capitalism into the spiritual side.

Scandinavians speak English very well (and often other languages too) but I have to report an intriguing linguistic episode. One conference participant shared, “So Patricia is talking about the shift from brain storming to brain stealing.”

Damn I thought, I NEVER said anything about stealing people’s brains. Turns out I misunderstood. He really meant “brain stilling,” as in meditation. Yes, exactly! (Brainstorming is still a great tool, especially after brain stilling.)