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Jens Larsen

I am a storytelling researcher and co-founder of True Storytelling, Old Friends Industires and Nordic School of Arts and Health. I spent my childhood and youth at the beaches in Denmark surfing, saling and and walking along the ocean picking up stones and shells and reflecting on life and the power of Gaia. Later I went out in the world hitch hiking and hiking the mountains of Himmalya, the Grand Canyon, Norway etc.  For years I have arranged guided hikes for ceo´s, leaders and ngo´s to the Pyrenees in Spain, the Dolomitts in Northern Italy and along the West Coast in Denmark using the power of the place and nature, hiking and storytelling and philosophy to help people to reconnect to Gaia, their true story and core values. Together with professor David Boje and Lena Bruun I have develop the ethical changes method True Storytelling which is grounded in Nature and indeginous knowing and help people, organizations and communities implement a more sustainable future.

 

Publications on storytelling, nature and lifelong learning

  • Larsen, Boje, Bruun ”True Storytelling – 7 principles for a ethical change management”, Routledge 2020

  • Larsen, Kirkeby, Hede, Mejlhede ”Protreptik – filosofisk coaching i ledelse” (Protreptic – philosophical coaching in leadership), SL Forlag, 2008

  • Larsen, Christensen”Succes og brændte broer”, Peoples Press 2010

  • Larsen, ”Sangskriver – 11 samtaler”, Lindhrdt & Ringhof, 2002

  • Larsen, Christensen, ”Helle Helle og Naja Marie Aidt – portrætsamtaler og novelleanalyser”  Gyldendal Uddannelse, 2014

  • Larsen, Christensen, ”Kim Fupz og Jesper Wung Sung – portrætsamtaler og novelleanalyser” Gyldendal Uddannelse, 2016

  • Larsen, Christensen, ”Caspar Eric og Theis Ørtoft – portrætsamtaler og digtanalyser” Gyldendal, 2020

 

Activities and website

  • Consulting and managing large projecst about sustainablity and lifelong learning.

  • Certicate Program ”Become a true storyteller” (true-storytelling.com)

  • Creating mental health through arts and nature Nordic School of Arts and Helth nordicsah.com

  • Storytelling and sustainability Old Friends Industires (oldfriendsindustries.com)

 

Favorite books

  • Naja Marie Aidt, Baboon – short stories

  • Gregory Cajete, Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence

  • Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking

  • Hannah Arendt, Human condition

  • Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

  • Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen

  • Deleuze, Guattari, What is philosophy