Travelling without Moving (TWM) is a series of essays documenting my mental and philosophical journey in 2020-2021.

The name came from an Arpeggiator Sound in Logic Pro that I was using in freewheeling a soundscape. It’s also a song by Jamiroquai from 1996

I felt the name fitted quite well with the troublesome year 2020 where – at least in Flanders – we already had two lockdowns and other less strict conditions throughout the year, basically discouraging contacts and travelling. But in my mind, I was still travelling, without physically moving.

The idea for TWM was triggered by an invitation from Jennifer Sertl who started StudioA3R, a weekly podcast dedicated to helping leaders navigate complexting by strengthening resilience, responsiveness and reflection.

Here is a link to the session we had in Aug 2020:

Jennifer’s podcasts are organised around four questions:

Where have you been?

What have you learned?

Where are you going?

What’s required?

In other words, documenting the journey, the voyage one makes. One can answer those questions from different perspectives:

Location: where have you physically been? Flanders, Italy, etc.

Activity: what have you done? Tasks, Deliverables, Products, etc.

Mentally: what were your ups and downs, etc.

Philosophically: from Plato to Kant to Kierkegaard to Sloterdijk, etc.

But there is also a way to answer these questions looking at where your mind has been. What have I learned? Where is my mind going, what is required? What steppingstones did I step on? Is there any coherence in all this?

That’s the plan/ambition with these TWM essays: to share where I have been, what I learned, where I am going, and what is required. And hopefully also offer some inspiration to my readers, and – who knows? – find some co-travelers along the way.

Each essay will start from a keyword. Each keyword hides a story. Some stories are inspired by an event (something that happened), others by something I read or experienced. Sometimes it was a happenstance framing of the camera.

The keywords are:

Silence

Pause

Play

Anxious

Unbound

Foam

Genre

(In)appropriate

Studios

Traveling Without Moving (TMW) is also somewhat related to Studio Oxygen (SOX) and Pirate TV (PTV). Some essays will be published in sync with the launch of new episodes of SOX and PTV. And for booklovers: there will be plenty of references to interesting books 😉

Every essay will have a link back to this overview/intro post, so that you can navigate your own way back into the voyage.

Hope you enjoy the ride as much as I did.

Warmest,