July & September 2025
Education for life
The main secret behind the success of the Nordic countries is how we educate.
This 3-sessions online course introduces pedagogics and the educational system in Denmark.
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August-September 2025
Self-organizing society
Want to know how the Nordic societies are organized?
This 5-sessions online course introduces 5 unique economic structures that started out as self-organized and became engrained parts of Danish society.
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August-October 2025
September-December 2025
What should be next?
Finding it hard to grasp the 21st Century?
This 10-sessions online course provides you with a set of lenses that allows you to grasp and handle the complexity.
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Run a Study Circle
The Nordics have 100+ years of experience with self-organized study circles. This course teaches you the do’s and dont’s of organizing self-organized adult education.
Testimonial
Lene constructed a sandbox for us to play in with Zen-like mastery—using few parts so we can play freely, yet enough parts for us to experience the topic in a new light, untethered to our specific version of the past journey to this moment.
The Nordic Secret 3.0 course with Lene Rachel Andersen creates, uniquely in my experience, an atmosphere for becoming aware of our own lenses of interpretation of the world, and co-creating new narratives and concepts that unlock previously unimagined affordances. Lene provides us with language and tools to frame our aspirations and work so that we can more effectively communicate them, and opens valuable lines of sight on viable transformational paths forward. I have thought a lot about how she has accomplished this – effectively increasing the mental complexity of the participants, and leaving us different and more adept at navigating and stewarding challenges than when we arrived to the class.
In Shared Third mode, we got to benefit from each other’s experience in nuanced and constructive ways because Lene created a shared language and focused our minds on the task of designing the future possibilities. Lene constructed a sandbox for us to play in with Zen-like mastery—using few parts so we can play freely, yet enough parts for us to experience the topic in a new light, untethered to our specific version of the past journey to this moment.
- Giving us tools such as powerful concepts and egalitarian norms to make us productive in designing complex system loops and networks, new schools, institutions and political platforms
- tools so minimalist to liberate our creativity,
- but just comprehensive enough to make the exercise meaningful;
- most importantly, tools that are so intricate that they captured our cognitive focus and allowed us to see the topic free of our personal emotional baggage that usually emerges when we think of it.
The Sandbox is approximative, as we may not be fully on board with the premise of the exercise (e.g., protecting our current behaviors as the goal, or that institutions can solve the problem), and sometimes the new tools feel not yet in reach (that is why we do it together). Maybe those little misalignments are what keeps us distracted from our specific bundles of experience and frees us up to a new view of the Shared Third topic.
At the interpersonal level, Lene created a freedom to disagree and learn from each other’s perspectives as we came from different cultures and professions. The participants’ shared motivation to be there and their desire to make the world better allowed us to connect and build new bonds.
Cognitively and emotionally, the class somehow created space for our beliefs and notions to evolve and mature inside us – and my own understanding of the process and the topics is still growing in the weeks since the course ended.
Dr Milja Franck
Co-convenor of the Economy Working Group of the Global Compassion Coalition,
France
If you live outside Europe, the US and Canada and you think the courses are too expensive, we offer a discount: We take the GDP per capita in your country and compare it to the GDP per capita in Denmark, and then we give you a discount that matches the difference. Please send us an email at and tell us where you live, and we will let you know how to sign up with the discount.
We can also offer you a discount if you are a student.