RESTART METHOD
It is striking how little we humans know about ourselves, and how randomly we answer the questions we are asked. We need an external structure that helps us hold on to what is important to us. There are so many emotional and mood-related factors that influence the answers we give when we are asked what matters most to us. We have standard responses that we have practiced for social occasions, when someone asks us what we do and why we do it. But it is rare that we ask ourselves what is good, most important, what drives us, and what prevents us from unfolding our potential. Moreover, the answers we give depend on the wind and the weather—almost literally. If you are asked about your strengths and preferences on a gray and rainy day, you will answer one way. But if you are asked on a lovely day when the sun is shining, your answers will be completely different. It rarely works to our advantage that there is such a big difference. This means that the overall picture we paint and present of ourselves becomes unclear and diffuse.
The Restart Method connects people with themselves through a guided framework of questions that clarifies what creates meaning from a broader perspective, what drives a person toward which goals—and, not least, what stands in the way when you repeatedly feel like you’re hitting a wall. The Restart Method strengthens the ability to create the best conditions for yourself, based on insight into what motivates you and what needs to be present for you to engage toward clearly defined individual and shared goals
Fundamental to the method is the ability to navigate the tension between the known and the unknown. Between knowledge and not-knowing, between the scientific and the creative, and thus between the rational and the intuitive and perceptive
All people are born with intuition, but how, how much, and how consciously they use it varies from person to person. Intuition is an important source of inspiration and insight in the creative process, and a key element in connecting with ourselves and our inner world. That’s why a significant part of the work involves raising awareness of your personal profile and training the voice of your intuition.
The Restart Method consists of three levels: Profile, Plans, and Practice
The fact that your profile is built from your own words and descriptions means that you gain a unique sense of ownership over it. You become more aware of yourself and your unique starting point, and you receive a manageable description of what is important to you, as well as a tool for steering and implementing the changes you desire.
The framework of questions is designed to cover the elements we believe influence and shape us in this moment. This is to help us see the potential we have within us
Your Personal Profile consists of the following elements:
- Your vision
- Your mission
- Your values
- Your driving force
- Your optimal conditions
- Your barrier to change
ART AS A TRAINING GROUND FOR INTUITION AND SPIRITUALITY
Intuition is a faculty that is naturally activated through art and artistic processes.
Art is the training ground when it comes to spirit, intuition, and the unlocking of potential, as well as the development of talent. This means that the realization of natural talent is connected to the spiritual, intuitive, and emotional part of us, which is naturally activated through artistic processes.
I always place significant emphasis on art, spirit, and intuition—both in our processes within the company and in my narrative about what I do and why I do it. I do this to acknowledge the whole person—and in recognition that human beings are spiritual beings. It is a re-articulation of the spiritual aspect of humanity as a natural and essential part, and of people as being part of something greater and in direct communication with the universe.
Since the use of the spiritual and intuitive parts of the human being is more or less random in most of the Western world, it may seem new and unfamiliar. It is a muscle that must be trained, just like we train everything else in life, from mathematics to tennis and piano.
Intuition, as the power to act without the mind’s judgment, is the first active sense we are born with, and the one we shut down the fastest. We all have it; it’s just dormant. The model of ‘the whole person’ is the starting point and foundation for all my work. The defined elements of the whole person are an illustration of the four elements that humans contain, as described earlier: spirit, emotion, body, and mind
