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Polar bear visits, hurricane, isolation and mental health
“Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already accomplished and what one still ought to accomplish, the gap between what one is and what one should become. What man needs is not a tensionless state but rather a...
Ettra is coming home!
“Anything more wonderful than the polar night does not exist. It is a dream-like sight. It is a light poem of all the finest and most delicate tones of the soul.” Fridjof Nansen NEW BAMSEBU BLOG Advent and a time of waiting When we were children, this time before...
Two Polar Bears & two Polar Girls
“To seek solitude during the dark part of the year in Svalbard isn’t just about bidding farewell to civilization for several months. It’s first and foremost about daring to meet yourself. Only the bravest among us dare to do that” -- Arne O. Holm Its December and a...
Hello from Bamsebu – we are keeping the light on
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books” - John Lubbock The Use of Life One week at Bamsebu and this year could not be more different than...
Hello to all in our Hearts in the Ice community!
“The planet is facing a rapidly accelerating emergency, but it's not too late to act, says Christiana Figueres, architect of the historic 2015 Paris Agreement. "All of us start the transformation in one place — our mindset. This decade is a moment of choice unlike any...
Behind the scenes – the gang of six!
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to...
Beluga whales – the great comeback story!
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It...
Emotion triggers action – what motivates us to change?
I have no hidden talents, I am merely passionately curious. – Einstein So much has changed in how we engage with each other, the world around us and how we learn. Especially now with everything online as we spent our week in Longyearbyen on numerous hosted zoom calls...
Lost and found – and how Hilde won a trip to Greece
If you want to build a ship, then don’t drum up men to gather wood, give orders, and divide the work. Rather, teach them to yearn for the far and endless sea. – Saint Exupery How do you win a trip to Greece? Our 9km runs to the back side near Cap Fleur deLys and in...
The work we do
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essentials of life and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. H.D. Thoreau It’s been said that the greatest creative challenge is the struggle to be the architect of one’s own...
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