Week 4, 2026 — vibrant bubble

A crazy intense week where I barely blinked. It’s Sunday and my training is officially finished. We learned about resistance, conflict, and dyadic systems—and by learn I mean, we practiced with and on each other in different configurations, and with organizational clients. On two nights I stayed till the end of dinner parties, an on two other nights I crashed without any dinner at all. I got a light bout of gastro and handled it well. I celebrated my birthday with my peers, feeling bashful and pleased. I had a joyous reunion with a friend for the first time in-person, after five years of Zoom connections. She and her daughter drove me to the Cape of Good Hope and introduced me to views all along the coast. I visited Robben Island, most know as the place where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 17 years, but also for keeping many other political prisoners and leprosy patients in isolation.

Yesterday I saw this sign painted on the back of a bus: “too blessed to be stressed”. Feeling a bit like that!