Various European organizations that work in adult learning and education are beginning to notice our work and the Nordic secret, which means that more Europeans will be exploring bildung rather than just upgrading their professional skills.

In December, Lene gave an online keynote presentation of the Danish background for the Nordic secret at the conference

Towards a holistic understanding of ALE (adult learning and education) in the 21st Century

more info here: https://www.agenda-erwachsenenbildung.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsdetails/news/more-bildung-for-adult-education-1/

Illustration: Pixabay/Alexandra_Koch

Watch Lene Rachel Andersen and Tomas Björkman talk about The Nordic Secret with their German publisher:

The book was just published in German: Das Skandinavische Geheimnis on Phaenomen Verlag.

Wonderful commentary by David Brooks about what makes Scandinavia great: that Nordic secret of ours, Bildung. Please enjoy: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/opinion/scandinavia-education.html

Besides the public event at Perspectiva, Jonathan Rowson interviewed Lene Andersen about her writing and philosophy prior to The Nordic Secret, the paradigm shift that we are in as a civilization–and much more.

The room was full and people were on a waiting list when Jonathan Rowson from Perspectiva interviewed Lene and Tomas about The Nordic Secret.

As the picture indicates, the first part of the evening was rather conventional.

But then the creative Perspectiva people, not least Pippa Evans, turned the event into a game of Simon Says. We all had to work ourselves through the phases of indigenous culture, pre-modern, modern, and post-modern culture in order to eventually land in metamodernity–when Simon said so.

We were all so occupied by this exercise touching our heads and standing on one foot that we forgot taking pictures. Sorry.