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These days we are doing an Urban Safari in Berlin with students from the KaosPilots in Switzerland. They are here to get inspired, to develop new (business) ideas, to meet people, to explore Berlin, and to be together with their class mates. We arrange and facilitate parts of their week-long journey in the streets of Berlin.

Right now in this minute they are working in the Lower East Lab on, what if I can start my dream business here in Berlin; what would it be, who would be involved, and who would be my clients.

Here is a few impressions from the days – more to come.

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lower east explore: urban safari with kaospilots from Switzerland

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lower east explore: urban safari with kaospilots from Switzerland

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lower east explore: urban safari with kaospilots from Switzerland

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lower east explore: urban safari with kaospilots from Switzerland

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lower east explore: urban safari with kaospilots from Switzerland, Naho Iguchi talking about lions

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lower east explore: urban safari with kaospilots from Switzerland

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lower east explore: urban safari with kaospilots from Switzerland

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lower east explore: urban safari with kaospilots from Switzerland

 

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lower east explore: urban safari with kaospilots from Switzerland, visiting startup guide store

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lower east explore: urban safari with kaospilots from Switzerland, visiting startup guide store

bring your best ideas

New Business is a module based mastery training program over a year for entrepreneurs with ideas and dreams of new businesses. The training is offered by changels and lower east – and done in collaboration with the KaosPilots Switzerland. Main trainers are Matti Straub-Fischer (head of changels and KaosPilots Switzerland) and Jørgen Smidstrup (communication designer and project maker in Lower East and Lower East Lab).

Now we introduce: NEW BUSINESS COACHING CORNERS.
We offer an introduction to the program & you can bring your business idea(s) and your questions to our coaching corners. We are your coaches, guides and sparring partners to bring your ideas to the next level.

Dates for coaching corners
Thursday, 27th October 2016, 18-20h
Thursday, 24th November 2016, 18-20h
Thursday, 26th January 2017, 18-20h
Wednesday, 1st March, 2017, 18-20h

The corners takes place in Innovationsdorf Bern, Wylerringstrasse 36, CH-3014 Bern, Switzerland.

More info? Check the blog of New Business.

Questions? You are very welcome to get in contact via js@lowereastlab.de

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new business training

The New Business #2 is well up’n runnin’! New Business, where Jørgen Smidstrup from Lower East together with Matti Straub-Fischer from changels and KaosPilots Switzerland are the trainors, is a mastery program for entrepreneurs with ideas and dreams of new businesses.

At the second module in May we were working very concentrated (just see the photos) on appreciating the ’here & now’. On how to deal with worries and doubts? How to see the bigger picture and focus at the same time? We started the journey of ’how to communicate unfinished business’, and made the first steps in designing your own communication plan.

After 3 days of good work, we send home our people to digest and recharge for next module, which will take place June 15-17th. Here we will work on ’power & danger’, on what new territories to explore? On where you see opportunities and how can you make use of them? And we will look into what is needed to move past your inner and outer obstacles? We are looking very much forward to continue the work.

You can find more info on the mastery training here.

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NEW BUSINESS – a mastery program for entrepreneurs with existing and new business dreams. © lower east

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NEW BUSINESS – a mastery program for entrepreneurs with existing and new business dreams. © lower east

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NEW BUSINESS – a mastery program for entrepreneurs with existing and new business dreams. © lower east

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NEW BUSINESS – a mastery program for entrepreneurs with existing and new business dreams. © lower east

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NEW BUSINESS – a mastery program for entrepreneurs with existing and new business dreams. © lower east

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NEW BUSINESS – a mastery program for entrepreneurs with existing and new business dreams. © lower east

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NEW BUSINESS – a mastery program for entrepreneurs with existing and new business dreams. © lower east

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NEW BUSINESS – a mastery program for entrepreneurs with existing and new business dreams. © lower east

A mastery training program

Would you like to start your own business in a sustainable and inspiring way? Do you want to make a difference in your own life? Then New Business #2 could be your next step!

New Business is a mastery training program of 9 x 3 days over a year. The training is offered by changels and lower east – and done in collaboration with the KaosPilots Switzerland. Main trainers are Matti Straub-Fischer (head of changels and KaosPilots Switzerland) and Jørgen Smidstrup (communication designer and project maker in Lower East and Lower East Lab).

The full programme starts April 6th 2016 in Bern, Switzerland (8 modules in Bern and one in Berlin).

Some fine statements from participants on New Business #1 2014-2015:

“The NEW BUSINESS is a great space for me to get new tools, perspectives, and ideas, to profit from others, from the trainers, my classmates and the KaosPilots − and hopefully vice versa. And it is really a great space, making possible new experiences and motivating me to do, to try, to fail, to exercise and to succeed”. Thom Buchmüller.

“The open atmosphere and active exchange with the other NEW BUSINESS members, the teachers and the Kaos-Pilots have created a space for me, which has enabled me to bring my passions and dreams on a paper and create a first project out of it“. Karin Ehrler.

“when changels offered the NEW BUSINESS mastery training, this was the perfect option for me. I love the inspiring spirit, the great team and the demanding learning challenges − here I have to leave my comfort zone”. Claudio Pacozzi.

“I have fundamentally changed my perspective on what it means to create and run a successful business. NEW BUSINESS has offered me an alternative viewpoint to common beliefs about “serious business” that I had deeply internalised. The program has taught me to take my passions, potentials and dreams rather than limits and imagined deficits as my references. Our personal interchange in the group strongly supports me on my way and creates valuable new relationships”. Fabian Leuthold.

Reach out if you want to know more, and want to join the program.
Find more info on the new business blog and on the changels website.

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New business #2 – 2016

New Business for entrepreneurs in progress. Would you like to start your own business in a sustainable and inspiring way? Do you want to make a difference in your own life? Do you want to see how ancient wisdom can help us create sustainable business structures and services?

Then New Business #2 could be your next move. First step is the info event Thursday December 1th – 7pm-8pm – Innovationsdorf Bern, Wylerringstrasse 36, Bern, Switzerland.

The next step and maybe a great choice could then be the changels-mastery training program of 9 x 3 days over a year.

Join the info event and get to know the program, how we work and who the main trainers Matti Straub-Fischer (head of changels and KaosPilots Switzerland) and Jørgen Smidstrup (communication designer and project maker in Lower East and Lower East Lab) are.

This training is done in collaboration with the KaosPilots Switzerland who serve as business coaches for the participants.

The intro-module of 3 days will take place in February 2016 – from 3rd to 5th of February in Bern at the Innovationsdorf Bern. And the full programme starts April 6th 2016.

More info at the new business blog

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Urban Safari Berlin October 2015

Lower East Lab invites you on a urban safari in wonderful Berlin. In October. Could be cool if you want to join. Read all about it under the picture.

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Need inspiration? Want to meet people, discuss good and new ideas?

Come join us on an intense 2day Urban Safari Berlin. We have on 21 and 22 October 2015 put together a journey for you in this urban jungle, with special focus on inspiring new business, creative spaces and the co-working scene.

Berlin is a very lively and a very inspiring city! It is a melting pot of start-ups, young (and older) entrepreneurs, fresh initiatives, inspiring atmospheres, cool exhibition venues, an innovative food scene and just amazing spots and corners.

Berlin is a perfect spot to explore, think of new ideas, rethink the old ones, wonder about how funny & crazy some projects can be – and simply enjoy the love for new, small and bigger beautiful things.

We have experienced, that just a couple of days in this city, can be a good solid boost of energy and a very welcome creative break from the daily routines.

The Urban Safari Berlin is a initiative of Lower East Lab Berlin. They organize and host the safari’s – the first one held in November ‘12, in April and May ‘13, and again in May ’14 and June ’15.


The deal is:

• We will start on wednesday morning October 21th at 10:00 in Lower East Lab in Kreuzberg, the lab will be our class room during the safari days.
• We will be a group of around 8-12 curious and interesting people like yourself.
• We will be safaring on bikes, and on foot, by U-bahn – and again on bikes, the most fun way to explore and stop and go again.
• We will have time to follow our noses, our instincts, enjoy the crème-de-la-crème of the Urban Safari and Lower East exploration so far in this town.
• In the lab we will share inspiration and inputs, we can listen and discuss – have time to reflect, to sketch, to laugh and to enjoy.
• We will be done by thursday October 22th at 18:00. Here we finish with a glass of ‘see you again’ wine.

Together with Camillos Kitchen, we will all put up a playful and inspiring dinner in the lab on the first night. Camillos Kitchen is a pop-up (mostly in Berlin, Copenhagen and Bern) restaurant with gorgeous food and remarkable wines. That alone is worth the journey.

After the safari, you will receive a rich visual documentation on your days in Berlin.
Are you ready for this adventure with us?

If, here comes the small-printed stuff:
• You sign up with an e-mail to Jørgen Smidstrup. First come, first serve.
• You book your own flight or travels to Berlin.
• You book your own overnight stays. We suggest you some beautiful places like Hüttenpalast, Michelberger or IMA Lofts. Or find a flat on Airbnb, we can get you in contact with fine private flats as well.
• Your costs will be €550 for the two days in the urban jungle. Guides, food and drinks for the time between the first day at 10:00 to the second day at 18:00, bike rentals, U-bahn tickets, and the class room and kitchen facilities are covered in this.
• Empty your head. Bring comfortable clothes and shoes, your favorite notebook, your best pens, some kind of a camera, and your toothbrush.

If curious, you can get some impressions from the lower east safari life on here on our blog and on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/lowereastlab/timeline

If you like, you can of course invite a dear friend or your partner to enjoy the weekend with you after the safari in this mind-boggling city.
If the dates doesn’t fit you, special safaries can be arranged.

Feel free to contact us for any questions.

Jørgen Smidstrup, js@lowereast.dk
tel +45 40636899 // +49 170 2307910

Lower East Lab is a design studio, workshop room, event space, co-working space, homebase for Camillo’s Kitchen and Lower East. Behind the lab you find Helle Marietta and Jørgen Smidstrup who have moved their design company, Lower East, to Berlin at the end of 2011 and have been exploring the city ever since.

Helle and Jørgen will be your scouts, hosts and the facilitators for the Urban Safari.

You can find this text as a pdf on our website.

 

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Urban Safari Berlin ©lowereast

Urban Safari Berlin visiting Kühlhaus Berlin, May 2015 ©lowereast

Urban Safari Berlin visiting Kühlhaus Berlin, May 2015 ©lowereast

 

Urban Safari Berlin – in the Lower East Lab, June 2015 ©lowereast

Urban Safari Berlin – in the Lower East Lab, June 2015 ©lowereast

 

 

New Business #2

NEW BUSINESS – a one year further training (9 modules of three days each) for people who want to grow their project ideas into sustainable and inspiring businesses. A changels mastery program for passionate entrepreneurs with existing and new projects and business dreams.

The training takes place in the Innovation Village in Bern (the home and house of the Kaos­Pilots Switzerland, changels, New Business and many other ­projects and companies). Lower East are already in new business – and would love to see you on board!

New Business #2 will start September 2015, intro module 27-29 May 2015.
More info you ask? Yes, lots of possibilities:
In this newspaper (designed by Lower East)
On the changels website

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New Business postcards ©lowereast

what’s new?

what’s new from innovationsdorf bern, from kaospilots switzerland, from changels, from new business and bits and pieces from urban safari berlin, quiet days and lower east. We did the design of this fine newspaper, 32 pages, filled with thoughts, questions, information, pictures…

You can check out and read the entire newspaper on this link to ISSUU.
And you can require your own personal printed newspaper, by contacting us.

See some of the pages from what’s new? here:

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New Business in Lower East Lab

Last week we had a three day NEW BUSINESS WORKSHOP here in the Lower East Lab. The 6th module of NEW BUSINESS, a one year further training (9 modules of three days each) for people who want to grow their project ideas into sustainable and inspiring businesses – a mastery program for passionate entrepreneurs with existing and new projects and business dreams.

This 6th module we placed here in Berlin. The training normally takes place in the Innovations Dorf in Bern (the home and house of the Kaos­Pilots Switzerland, changels, New Business and many other ­projects and companies).

The focus of our module 6 is on interrelatedness and timing. This means a focus on:
• How is my business idea connected to other cycles right now?
• What else is going on around me… in nature, in the environment, in society, in groups and companies…?
• And how can we use these cycles for best possible timing of our own dreams and actions?

This module is also about becoming aware of trends and tendencies, so we can use them for our own business design.
• What are others doing?
• How can we be inspired by that for our own actions?

The fine group of people attending NEW BUSINESS, showed up in Berlin with their expectations high up – and we had three fantastic days!

We did our very best, used all the good stuff from the Lower East toolbox to put together some good and inspiring days. Used our experiences from counseling, teaching, working with communication and design, adding splashes of Urban Safari Berlin, adding food, recipes and spices from the Camillo’s Kitchen – supplying with the warmth and calmness the lab can also offer.

If you are curious to know more about the mastery program (a new programme will start May 2015 (intro) / September 2015 (first module)) please follow this link to the changels website and find all the info put together in one pdf, or (always first with the good news of course!) the lower east blog here.

The NEW BUSINESS blog is also up and running, still in its very beginning…

You are also very welcome to attend the open door event in the Innovations Dorf in Bern on March 13th, where the New Business has it’s own window. More info on that here.

Enough of links and words!
Impressions from the days in Berlin by Adrian Zimmermann, one of the participants in New Business.

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New Business / Lower East / the streets of Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / at Markthalle 9, Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / at Markthalle 9, Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / at Salumeria Lamuri, Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / back in the streets of Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

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New Business / Lower East / in Gleisdreieck, Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

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New Business / Lower East / in Kühlhaus, Berlin ©Lowereast

New Business / Lower East / Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / in the lab, Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / co-creating dinner, Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / co-creating dinner, Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / Berlin ©Adrian Zimmermann

New Business / Lower East / Dinner, Berlin ©Lowereast

New Business has just begun …

Lower East are happily involved in NEW BUSINESS in Switzerland; the one year training for entrepreneurs who want to grow their project ideas into sustainable and inspiring businesses. We work with changels on the program, both as designers and communicators – and as teachers and inspirators.

The program started successfully up in September, next module will be in October – still a seat or two available if you hurry up and want to join the New Business Team.

So, what is all this new business about?

We at changels are strong in coaching entrepreneurs and their teams to sustainable and regenerative success. We have been running several leadership trainings and strategic development processes for companies and entrepreneurs in start-up and further development to reach new horizons. We have started the KaosPilots school for responsible entrepreneurs, creative leaders and change makers here in Switzerland, a three year full time education with an international focus.

For a while we have felt a strong desire to start up an intense one year program based on the best of the changels competencies and experiences and our learnings from the KaosPilot training.

So here it is: the changels NEW BUSINESS, a mastery program for passionate entrepreneurs with existing and new projects and business dreams.


Check the changels website
 – where you find more info.

New Business, at changels, Bern, Switzerland ©photo: Rahel Krabichler

New Business, at changels, Bern, Switzerland ©photo: Rahel Krabichler

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New Business, at changels, Bern, Switzerland ©photo: Rahel Krabichler

New Business as unusual

Lower East are strongly involved in NEW BUSINESS in Switzerland; a one year training for people who want to grow their project ideas into sustainable and inspiring businesses. We work with changels on the program, both as graphic designers and communicators – and as teachers/inspirators.

The full program starts up in September – a new intro module is coming up end of August. Dates 27-29 August.

Check it out if you are interested!

From the info-material: We at changels are strong in coaching entrepreneurs and their teams to sustainable and regenerative success. We have been running several leadership trainings and strategic development processes for companies and entrepreneurs in start-up and further development to reach new horizons. We have started the KaosPilots school for responsible entrepreneurs, creative leaders and change makers here in Switzerland, a three year full time education with an international focus.

For a while we have felt a strong desire to start up an intense one year program based on the best of the changels competencies and experiences and our learnings from the KaosPilot training.

We have been asked many times, whether we could offer a one year further training for entrepreneurs that is lighter than the 3 year KaosPilots training and focusing on people who already have a running business or are about to start up.

So here it is: the changels NEW BUSINESS, a mastery program for passionate entrepreneurs with existing and new projects and business dreams.

Link to changels website – where you also find a pdf on the subject.

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Postcard New Business

Postcard New Business

Postcard New Business

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Logo for New Business ©lowereast

Impressions from New Business intro workshop in June 2014

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New visual identity – for New Business
Lower East just did another quick & d….. visual identity job. This time for a new master program, created by changels in Bern, Switzerland.

Maybe it could be a ‘thing’ for you? Info from the info papers:

NEW BUSINESS. A one year further training for people who want to grow their project ideas into sustainable and inspiring businesses.

We at changels are strong in coaching entrepreneurs and their teams to sustainable and regenerative success. We have been running several leadership trainings and strategic development processes for companies and entrepreneurs in start-up and further development to reach new horizons. We have started the KaosPilots school for responsible entrepreneurs, creative leaders and change makers here in Switzerland, a three year full time education with an international focus.

For a while we have felt a strong desire to start up an intense one year program based on the best of the changels competencies and experiences and our learnings from the KaosPilot training.

We have been asked many times, whether we could offer a one year further training for entrepreneurs that is lighter than the 3 year KaosPilots training and focusing on people who already have a running business or are about to start up.

So here it is: the changels NEW BUSINESS, a mastery program for passionate entrepreneurs with existing and new projects and business dreams.

More info at the changels webpage

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Building new businesses ©lowereast

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The newspaper ©lowereast

We are happy to show and share the changels news!
An idea for a newspaper we at Lower East came up with some months ago together with the people from changels. In the very last days before Christmas we finished the design of the newspaper and it was immediately sent of to the printer in Switzerland. Now the 32-page newspaper is living it’s own life, spreading info and good news from the changels universe in Bern & Switzerland & the rest of the world.

changels is a coaching and consultant company from Bern, Switzerland (and a Lower East partner), and to explain the paper we bring a short extract from the welcome word:

“… it is time to share some good news with you and the rest of the world. We enjoy working with companies, teams and communities as well as with individuals from all areas of life. And we co-create our own inspirations, too: Launching the KaosPilots Switzerland here in Bern in October 2012, now already with 2 teams of international students learning to become creative leaders, responsible entrepreneurs and changemakers. Or initiating our Innovationsdorf here in Bern, an innovation village to bring cross-sectorial know how together to create new solutions. Creating a network of sustainable schools and communities. Designing Urban Safaris in Berlin, Bern and Cape Town. And offering trainings to really create New Business that feels right for us humans and uplifting for this entire planet Earth.“

Happy reading! Check out the pictures below – and/or read the full newspaper here:
http://issuu.com/lowereast/docs/changels_news-final_version_light

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