Considering That 2007, I’m invest part of my winter season vacations taking a look at all the photos of the in 2015, and utilizing it to develop a delighted brand-new year video. I began doing that due to the fact that producing a brand-new years card with simply one photo was too difficult for me. This year our household of 5 had + 10.000 photo. That looks a lot, yet that has to do with 5 photos a day per individual. With 3 teens, that is very little. Yes taking a look at all these photos takes a great deal of time, yet doing this for 15 years I have actually found out that taking that time and considering the previous year deserves every minute. I suggest it for many years to everybody that wishes to listen, and every year I see a number of videos produced by buddies all over the world. Specifically throughout the last 3 years where we have actually not fulfilled the majority of them, it’s great to see what their households have actually done the ins 2015.

Let’s appearance back at what the year that 2022 brought us …

• Bent passed his theoretical examination for his driving license in January.
• Bent ended up Hotel-Restaurant in July. Throughout his phase he had the ability to operate in the 1 star dining establishment Publiek. He was extremely pleased with that, not just did he find out a lot, he liked becoming part of the group. And yes he felt truly part of the group. (Throughout the summertime, he likewise operated at Alberte, Talloor d’or, Yaloo Hotel. )
• In September Bent began Hotel management at VIVES, yet after a number of weeks he understood his French was unsatisfactory. He informed me and my partner, showing he was more matured at age 17 than I was at age 19. He then chose that the very best method to find out French was by being immersed in an environment that was French speaking. So about a month after informing us, he remained in a school in Namur (French speaking part of Belgium) opting for a 7 year of Sommelier, residing on his own in a trainee house, surrounded by French speaking trainees. He had actually simply turned 18 already.
  A huge congratulations to many individuals in my network who aided with that. Specifically Stacey Buys whose efforts made us get in touch with a lot of the best individuals. (And was amazed that his message had such a result, yes that is what honestly requesting aid has as a result. )
• Joppe is now in his 3rd year at university.
• Joppe pass his driving license at the end of 2022
• Geike took part in a video for tzitemzo.
• As the last relative I got corona throughout the summertime. Going to a jam-packed outdoors show, got me.
• Els and me, we hang out on reconnecting. Throughout covid our focus was on making it through as a household and we kinda disregarded our collaboration as survival was more crucial. Yet after 2,5 years we truly required to re-align. With kids ending up being practically independent people, we prepare to do more of that in 2023.

  Neighborhood sensible:

• I began gathering ideas on hybrid and remote working. Similar to the nimble ideas from the trenches books, I wish to let it grow gradually.
• We did once again 2 nimble week at my significant customer, where I welcomed some nimble buddies. It’s great to see a business invest a lot in bringing understanding inside. And a lot more crucial a big part of the talks were from internal speakers where we concentrate on spreading out the great experience and experiments from within.
• I did workshops at 3 of the significant nimble conference in Belgium:
  • nimble consortium Belgium workshop with Stijn Decneut around: reframing nimble
  • XPDay Benelux
    • unscripted workshop on remote and hybrid working
    • assistance of fishbowl on the future of nimble
  • Agile Trip Brussel: workshop with Hania Ferdoud on remote and hybrid working
• I moderated the seminar at the Breaking the silo occasion around remote working
• I did a remote talk for Scrummasters of deep space around hybrid and remote work
• I tape-recorded +60 interviews for the video edition of Who is nimble, 50 of these video’s got released. I got excellent feedback both from individuals I talked to as from listeners. If you believe individuals can’t get linked remote, have a look at these video’s, similar to a lot of individuals I spoke to, this was the extremely first discussion I had with them. And all of these interviews were truly deep, psychological discussions that touched me.

We likewise had some problem:
All of us understand about the war in Ukraine. I was welcomed numerous times to speak in Київ and I have lots of Ukrainian buddies. As I have the objective to return, I have now invest 305 days on Duolingo discovering the language of my buddies, in 2015 I was hardly able to state спасибі.
вибачте I wish to do far better next time.

Among Geikes searching buddies, the 15 years of age Mats has leukemia. After the general public lockdown his household has now go to a 2 year personal lockdown to keep the infections out, while he is battling his cancer. if you wish to assist? Please contribute blood, it’s a little financial investment for you, yet it conserves lives, as individuals like Mats requires great deals of blood.

Among my buddies from the time I was studying, is terminal ill. A single mother with a child he simply began working this year. The minute her life is removing, her mom’s life will end.

==> > yes it was once again a hectic year. yet all that neighborhood work, offered me much energy.
The problem is putting whatever into viewpoint.
And thus our brand-new years long for everybody:
We want you a 2023 where you can be your real self.

A year where nobody is informing you what to use, what colour your hair must be, what clothing you can or can not use. Who you can enjoy, or make love with and essential what you can & & can not believe.
Or like my good friend Sofie composed today:
A lot of people have actually attempted to tone down our weirdness for buddies or partners, just later on to find out that we are reducing the very best features of us. There is no happiness like the happiness of being your unusual self and finding that there are individuals who enjoy you for it.

Similar to other years, I want to turn this into a discussion a lot more than an interaction. I would enjoy to speak with you, how do you wish to be your real self this year? And what assistance do you require from the world to do so?