https://sum-space.com/ The news feed for Sum en-GB Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:31:50 +0000 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:31:50 +0000 https://sum-space.com/field-notes/are-you-having-the-relevant-conversations-with-your-partner Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000 Laura Devillers https://sum-space.com/field-notes/are-you-having-the-relevant-conversations-with-your-partner We recently celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary, and we felt this was a good moment to pause, reflect on where we stand as a couple and what we might want to do to prepare for an exciting future together. Friends pointed us to a couple’s retreat in Costa Rica which follows the methodology developed by psychologist Sue Johnson (summarized in her book ‘Hold me tight’).

]]> https://sum-space.com/field-notes/do-you-understand-how-you-stand-in-the-way-of-good-and-healthy-relationships Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0100 [email protected] https://sum-space.com/field-notes/do-you-understand-how-you-stand-in-the-way-of-good-and-healthy-relationships This summer I came across another book that shifted my perspective and understanding.  And it could actually contribute to a better story for us and the world.  At least for the male half of the population.

]]> https://sum-space.com/field-notes/we-are-sum Sun, 01 Sep 2024 22:21:00 +0100 Carolina https://sum-space.com/field-notes/we-are-sum It was on Independence Day, the 4th of July 2011 when Carolina and I founded sum. 1'500 workshops in 40 countries on all 6 continents, 50 leadership conferences later, and probably 25000+ leaders that we had the honor to ’touch’ and work with, it was time to reflect on the experiences and the current state of the world. What does the world need? How can business be a force for good?

]]> https://sum-space.com/field-notes/reflections-while-mountaineering Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:58:00 +0100 [email protected] https://sum-space.com/field-notes/reflections-while-mountaineering I recently turned 50, and to mark the occasion my father and I decided to spend a weekend at the foot of the Großglockner Mountain in Austria

]]> https://sum-space.com/field-notes/what-can-we-learn-from-parzival Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:03:00 +0100 [email protected] https://sum-space.com/field-notes/what-can-we-learn-from-parzival Parzival is an epic poem composed in the 13th century by Wolfram von Eschenbach in 16 books and a total of 24'000 lines.

]]> https://sum-space.com/field-notes/have-you-ever-been-struck-by-lightning Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] https://sum-space.com/field-notes/have-you-ever-been-struck-by-lightning On February 21 at 5.15pm Brazil time, our sailing yacht, an X4.3 from the Danish shipyard X-Yachts, got struck by lightning.

]]> https://sum-space.com/field-notes/what-did-i-learn-during-my-sabbatical Wed, 06 Jul 2022 16:17:00 +0100 [email protected] https://sum-space.com/field-notes/what-did-i-learn-during-my-sabbatical This year I celebrated a big birthday, and in addition, our firm recently had its ten-year anniversary, so it occurred to me that it is time to realize a long-time dream: going for a two-month sailing sabbatical

]]> https://sum-space.com/field-notes/what-did-we-learn-in-10-years-of-sum-people Thu, 16 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0100 [email protected] https://sum-space.com/field-notes/what-did-we-learn-in-10-years-of-sum-people Dear friends of sum people, on Independence Day, 4th of July 2011, we founded sum people. After 20 years as a corporate employee and coming from a family of public servants founding a company was a big step

]]> https://sum-space.com/field-notes/who-do-you-admire-and-why Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0100 [email protected] https://sum-space.com/field-notes/who-do-you-admire-and-why One of the exercises we run during the Mountain Wisdom format asks you: who do you admire? and why? and what are the qualities that you admire of this person?

]]> https://sum-space.com/field-notes/can-you-shape-a-high-performing-team-online Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:31:00 +0100 [email protected] https://sum-space.com/field-notes/can-you-shape-a-high-performing-team-online Over the last decade at sum people we have facilitated 1000+ High Performance Team (HPT) workshops in 40+ countries on all continents (with the exception of Antarctica; even though Tasmania, Patagonia and South Africa got relatively close)

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