About

Min baggrund

Jeg tilbragte min barndom i et vibrerende, antroposofisk skolesamfund i 1980'ernes Danmark, hvor biodynamiske og regenerative principper var en integreret del af madkultur og opvækst. Bæredygtig livsstil, hvor naturen får den mest centrale plads, var en kendsgerning, og har været en uløselig del af mig som menneske lige siden. Parallelt med "natur forbundethed"s perspektivet, er jeg fortaler for legende, kreativ aktivitet i musik, litteratur, visuelle og fysiske kunstneriske udtryk, og ikke mindst praktisk, intellektuel og "æterisk" aktivitet. Med "integrering" som hovedtema.

Lige siden min tidlige arbejdsliv som ergoterapeit, har jeg følt mig foranlediget til at udforske og anvende multisensorisk bevidsthed i forhold til mit eget arbejdsliv og personlige liv. At nyttiggøre sig af styrkerne ved multisensorisk bevidsthed, løfter potentialet for at designe og skabe oplevelser som er mere individuelle, tilpasset det enkelte menneskes unike kapacitet, ressourcer og potentiale. På den måde kan vi skabe et samfund som i meget højere grad udvikler sig gennem meningsfulde, tilfredsstillende og helsefremmende aktiviteter og menneskeligt samspil.

Settling on an abandoned homestead so remote from what I perceived to be my comfort zone in highly populated Denmark, gave me the opportunity to truly practice my own values through everyday life. Here, life is practical grit and low key perseverance in close contact with a nature which provides and withholds in it's own cycle. And in that, I am finding a source of immense purpose and satisfaction. So Sensory Academy is like a "functional experimentarium", in which sensory awareness is emphazised, materialistically as well as physically and cognitively.

Towards a Sensory Society

I recognize the call in contemporary society, to move steadfast beyond the rigid, conventional five-sensory perspective, and overall hyperexposure, into the truly MULTI sensory awareness age.

So, for my master's degree in Tourism Management, I delved further into the crossdisciplinary territory of designing multisensory experience. I dedicated my master's thesis (icon link below) to innovative, exploratory research on the "Art of Senscaping" and the multisensory dimension of commercial hospitality and experience design in the experience economy. A number of unexpected, interesting discoveries revealed themselves, on how a selection of professional experience designers conventionally understand (and miss out on the opportunity to harness) the multisensory dimension, for greater value creation.

I am passionately dedicated to the vision of introducing the "Art of Senscaping" beyond the conventional approach, in which sensory overload much to often has become the norm. I draw on interdisciplinary, science-backed, holistic knowledge, both when hosting guests on my homestead in the Arctic, and when assisting leaders and staff become the groundbreaking "Yodas of senscaping" in their own organisations.

Our environments and experience products can be customized much better to individual sensory capacity and needs, by profiling core sensory caracteristics in

• ourselves,
• activities we engage in, and
• space surrounding us.

I teach courses in the basic principles of eight-sensory senscaping, to give private people as well as professionals better insight in the dynamics of experience design and co-creation.

I have dedicated several years and ressources to the development and professionalisation of an efficient, easily applicable management tool for the strategic:

• analysis
• assessment
• profiling
• design &
• execution

of activities for enhanced experiences.

Human cairns of inspiration

Deep underneath my approach to work and life, are some ideas and values for me to flag. These are conveyed, sometimes through theory, science and casestudies, other times through philosophy, fiction, poetry, music and visual art.

Understanding humanity

People applying sensory neuroscience for the good of humanity and societal impact, are ultimately what made me enter this multisensory universe to begin with... For their perpetual inspiration, I draw on contemporary wizzards such as

Understanding nature

Nature in us, us in nature... the most vital aspect of life.

My perpective on experience creation

I also place great value and thankfullnes in the responsiveness, faith and support of people in the landscape of the contemporary Experience Economy.

Core skills

People work has been my trade for my entire professional life. From teaching experience design and innovation as an associate professor at the Arctic University of Norway, to executing workshops on sensory processing and senscaping within the health sector in Mexico, Denmark, Greenland and Norway. I draw on scientific domains such as neurophysiological, psychological and behavioral dimensions of sensory processing. I have a health professional background and hold a bachelor's degree in occupational therapy since 2008, which has provided me with extensive knowledge from years of therapeutic people work and the leadership role in the public health arena. While practicing occupational therapy, I've spent decades building professional capacity on how embodiment of sensory stimuli affects the experiences, reactions, behaviour, social skills and life satisfaction of people, under different life circumstances.

My main focus today is: experience & event design, customer and patient journey assessments, digital UX:design, sensory marketing, sensory informed environments, rehabilitation and habilitation processes and longterm public health promotion strategies such as public space nudging and adaptations, city planning and architecture.

My additional skills

Certified Permaculturist

Concurrently with my completion of my Permaculture Design Course (EarthMentorMe, 2026), I learned about Arctic Wildfire Preparedness (Nord University, 2026).

Collaborative, processual approach

I'm trained in process facilitation, based on phramework such as "Appreciative Inquiry" and "inter-professional supervision" while drawing on elements from "reflecting team", a form of narrative, peer-initiated supervision (2008). Since 2012 I've integrated elements from “forum-theatre”, a more dramaturgic process management tool, which uses roleplay and interactive audience in changemaking as value creation. This method remains highly efficient for guiding teams into gentle, dynamic transformation through immersive experience.

I'm certified MediYoga®-instructor (since 2016), having also health professional competence on contemplative practices, and how these potentially contribute to enhancing reflective, creative, and health promoting processes in individuals and teams.

My recent activities

My experience encompasses temporary teaching positions as assistant professor at the Arctic University of Norway. Subjects I guided my students through?

innovation, experience production and naturebased tourism.

In a 2022 consultancy job, I assisted the destination company Visit Lyngenfjord with the finalization of a three year long, comprehensive sustainability project (assessment of execution and final reporting).