Fellow
Current Country
Bolivia 🇧🇴
Current City
Sucre
Intuition
Cultivating inner knowing
A question currently animating me about the inner life/spirit is:
What does happiness really mean to me? How do I balance discovering my own happiness while maintaining others ?
November 6, 2025
A question currently animating me about the outer world/universe/multiverse is:
Does happiness mean living in ignorance?
November 6, 2025
The practices I’m finding most helpful at the moment are:
Time in Nature
November 6, 2025
A moment I noticed my inner light kindled this month was:
Having unique experiences through connecting with locals
November 6, 2025
A moment I noticed my inner light dwindled this month was:
Measuring helping at home while being fully present where I am now
November 6, 2025
Courage
Aligning action
Assumptions I'm examining right now are:
Happiness
November 6, 2025
I originally assumed:
I don’t really know what I used to think, but I think I based happiness very much off how I was feeling in the moment
November 6, 2025
These assumptions are changing:
Now I sense it’s difficult to measure how happy you feel, if there are people who you care about who are not. Is happiness based on your lifestyle and what you enjoy doing? Or seeing the people you care about enjoying life? Or many factors?
November 6, 2025
A moment I stepped out of my comfort zone this month was:
Trusting people who I didn’t know, of course carefully
November 6, 2025
Compassion
Engaged Empathy
Something that is helping me build trusting relationships here is:
Breakout rooms, friendship roulette - having conversations in smaller groups!
November 6, 2025
Digital Detox Retreat
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Being intentionally away from technology and distractions has taught me:
Has reminded me to take things slow. I always feel like I have to do something, but I can take time to just sit
November 6, 2025
Gratitude
Peers I'm grateful for:
Lauren Nietschke
Thank you (to you and Naomi) for leading such a lovely session, I really enjoy discussing this topic!! Also thank you for a lovely meet up, what so comforting to see a familiar face!
November 6, 2025
Ruan Vitor Cordeiro da Silva
Thank you for sharing your tips and thoughts on your travels in Peru so that I had some insight before coming! You seem so kind and I hope we can cross paths!
October 1, 2025
Kashimani Simasiku
Kash was my first buddy, and it’s been really nice to keep in touch! Thank you for being really sweet and asking questions! It’s been really inspiring listening to your plans etc!
September 1, 2025
Wendelien van der Schaar
Thank you for sharing in the group sessions and for a couple conversations we’ve had!
July 30, 2025
Peers who have expressed gratitude for me:
Wendelien van der Schaar
Lexiii! I loved the times we were put in a breakout room together and I can’t wait to have more time to talk over a call! Thanks for being such a good conversation partner and I’m excited to get to know you better!
November 30, 2025
Anna Ufaeva
I really really love reading your travel stories, it's truly inspiring the way you approach traveling, honoring communities, learning from them. Stories like this help move from the "tourist" mindset and deeply connect with a new place!
October 16, 2025
Magical Moments
Potosí mines!
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Oct 27, 2024
Potosí is a major colonial-era silver supplier for Spain, a mine where many people died. When I visited, I was in a restaurant and was speaking to some locals who took me to a mine worker to show me the mines. He gave me a hat, and a torch and took me about 5 floors deep into this crazy mine. It was such a unique and amazing experience.