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Let’s Dream Together #9 – Synopsis

Let’s Dream Together is a shared, co-designed community, co-evolving on the format of Social Dreaming. The series began in April 2020 and it is sponsored by Psychology of Sailing. Open internationally, it welcomed so far more than 40 participants from countries such as Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, South Africa, …

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Let’s Dream Together #8: Synopsis

Let’s Dream Together is a shared co-designed community evolving through the format of social dreaming. The series began in April 2020 and it is sponsored by Psychology of Sailing in cooperation with the Centre for Social Dreaming. Open internationally, it welcomed so far more than 30 participants from countries such as Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, …

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LET’S DREAM TOGETHER #6 – Synopsis

The series of Social Dreaming Let’s Dream Together restarted Saturday 29th August 2020 after a break of almost 3 months. This was the sixth meeting of the series that welcomed more than 25 participants from countries such as Austria, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, Spain, U.K., USA which were able/forced to connect via the …

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LET’S DREAM TOGETHER #5 – Synopsis

“Let’s Dream Together” Series – Fabio Brunazzi 5th SDM – Sunday 25 May 2020 – From 11.00am until 12.10pm EST Hosts: Shelia Thurman (USA) and Agnes Berthoz (France/United Kingdom) Participants: 9 Dreams: 8 Associations: Around 21 In this matrix, many of the dreams reflected about our human behaviours and those of the virus Covid19. i.e. The virus, like us …

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Let’s Dream Together #4 – Synopsis

This report is compiled by Sara Mononen On Sunday May 10th, Sara Mononen (Canada) and Elio Vera (Italy) hosted a Social Dreaming Matrix. 10 people attended from England, Canada, USA, and the Netherlands.11 dreams and 14 associations were shared. THEMES:– passports & papers; credentials– Division/differences between child and adult world– Transport and transformation– Fear vs. Adventure …

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Dealing with the Blues while sailing

Recently Robert M. Pirsig passed away at age 88 in his house in Maine. He became instantly famous when he published the philosophical novel “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values” in 1974. His only other novel “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals” appeared later in 1991 and tells the partially autobiographical …

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When sailing is only a game: Sailaway the ultimate sailing simulator

Sailaway is a new sailing simulator that promise “to sail the distant ocean from the comfort of your home and PC”. The game is planned to be releases via Early Access in April 2017 by Irregular Corporation. Featuring a realistic reproduction of ocean water and waves, coastline and and real-time weather conditions (based on NOAA data) and …

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The beauty of the Arctic: interview with Chris and Jess Bray

Chris Bray and Jess Taunton bought an old 29 ft. sailboat in Halifax, Canada in 2009, rebuilt her and sailed through the Northwest Passage to Alaska. Already professional photographers and adventurers (check out their website), they reached many fans on the Internet thanks to a popular Youtube series of their voyage. They are also currently …

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Push your mind and body further: interview with Matt Rutherford

Humans can’t survive for long in the ocean without the aid of technology. The development of technology is a key factor to enhance sailing performance but while very important, there are other factors that influence success in sailing. The extraordinary ability that humans possess in adapting to different environments and the mental capacity to withstand …

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A family of sailing nomads: meet the Coconuts

There are special people that redefine the concept of normality. Sometimes a lone individual takes on a challenge and defies conventions through a unique journey. In this case, it’s an entire family. The Coconuts are a sailing family of six, Jay, Natasha, Sol, Luna, Caribe e Artico, who sailed for six years in the South America, …

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Living a Happy Outdoor Life: interview with Ellen & Seth

Ellen Massey Leonard and Seth Leonard both already fulfilled their childhood dream to sail around the world onboard their first sailboat Heretic, and now they are fostering new voyages of exploration towards the Arctic Ocean onboard Celeste. They do all this while conducting an intense professional career, and documenting their sailing adventure on their website gonefloatabout.com. …

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Keeping the cruising couple healthy: interview with Giulia Casani

Cruising couples spend a great lot of time together, basically every minute of the day, working towards a common goal, sharing good and bad moments. There is a common saying that if you survive living on a boat as a couple than you can survive anything. There had been famous sailing couples, like Susan and …

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The 5 obstacles to “living the cruising dream”

Sailing towards distant horizons, visiting new countries following one’s own time is an increasing popular lifestyle, a dream at hand’s reach. The new wave of sailing bloggers (like myself) and Youtube Sailing Channel lure a wide audience into this narrative of self-realization and discovery that helps to spring up the belief that absolutely everyone can …

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Small boat, big ocean: an interview with James Baldwin

  James Baldwin has become an established point of reference for small sailboat enthusiasts. His website atomvoyages is a wellspring of informations for people who are planning to start  cruising affordably. He is author of two books about his voyages aboard Atom, a Pearson Triton built in 1963 that has been twice around the world. Most of …

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The Flow of Sailing: An interview with Tim Herzog

Sailing competitively is tough. There are very little reward for the very hard work involved, and variables out of the athlete’s control can influence drastically the outcome of a race. To perform consistently in this scenario sailors have to learn how to control their inner state and avoid that their own mind gets in the …

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7 ways to deal with stress while sailing

Stress is not a disease. It can’t be cured or eliminated. We all experience it, when we physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually respond to life’s tension. It keeps up our activation, attention level and the readiness of our body when crucial situations occur. The ability to endure stressful situations and to accomplish tasks is influenced …

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A boat for everybody: meet “Lo Spirito di Stella”

There is a special boat afloat on the ocean. As it often happens to boats, she was created following the dream of a young man. But this boat somehow differs from the others, because even if she was born out of one man’s dream, she soon became a dream open to everybody, especially to those …

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Sail ever more simply and efficiently: interview with Webb Chiles

Webb Chiles is an American sailor, 5 times circumnavigator and author of seven books. He had throughout his life reached impressive sailing achievements but also, as a writer, he confronted the reader with the fascination of his peculiar human experience, or as his website states he goes “to the edges of the human experience and …

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