About Sissel

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I teach people how to become more mature. Myself included.

Why?

Because the lack of Maturity is at the root of all the world’s problems.

It took me a United Nations mission in Laos to realise that.

Implementing a project in northern Laos

All the short-sightedness, corruption and lack of work ethics in the country. The repressive, ineffective regime. 

The pompousness and petty competition among the international agencies.

I was new to the sector and was eager to learn and fit in. For a while, big words and grand frameworks impressed me. I worked 12 hours a day to implement projects with little or no impact.

Gradually, I came to my senses. I left meetings frustrated and dispirited thinking: “they need to grow up”.

That is where the seed of the League of Adults was sown.

Since then, I have been walking on a Road to Maturity. Stopped by stimulating pubs. Entered into conversations with grassing cows. Bathed naked in mountain lakes. Both metaphorically and in real life. 

MY Road TO M

3 things I have learned:

#1. I also need to grow up (surprise!). Improve my critical thinking. Be kind to me. Less judgemental towards others.
I am working on it.

#2. I have become even more convinced that the cause of all the world’s problems is a lack of Maturity. 

From poverty to Putin.
From shrinking forests to expanding waste lines. 

#3. It would take less than we think to do something about it. The problems are in our heads.

If we all grew up a few inches we would have fewer Putins. More Zelenskys. Fewer Harvey Weinsteins. More Harriet Tubmans.

At work, at summits, at home.

Join me on the Road to Maturity.

Some facts about Sissel

🇳🇴 I come from Norway, which explains a lot.
♦️ Been a foreigner most of my adult life. That explains even more about who I am.
 🍻 Able to get along with most people. From illiterate farmers to ministers.
♦️ Good at seeing people as they are. Despise snobbery or anything fake.

♦️ Never been much concerned about being popular. Do not take myself seriously.
♦️ Calm with a temper seething underneath. Hence, my tendency to become frustrated.
📚 My favourites: Books. Nature. Wine🍷

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