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?? ?????????????? ??????’?? ?????????? ???????????????? ????????, ?????? ?????????? ???????????????? ???????? ????. Rather than running away to a relaxing environment, we step into a space that is intentionally designed to deepen our practice, strengthen our skills, and support our growth. In a retreat, there is no place to hide - no phone, no social media, no Netflix, no idle talk. Free of distractions, ???? ???? ?????? ?????? ???? ???? ????. How are we choosing to meet each moment of our experience? There is nowhere to be but right here, right now; there is nothing to do but come face to face with the reality of our experience. And though we may not like it, we begin to understand why embracing each moment with awareness and curiosity matters. Why stillness cultivates mental clarity. Why sitting with discomfort builds resilience. Why meditation is the path to wisdom. Because then, there is no need to worry about returning to “normal life” when the retreat ends. No need to fear the uncertainties nor dread the chaos. We have done the work, we have gained valuable insights, and we can now step back into the world with more trust in ourselves and confidence in our abilities. ??????’?? ???????? ???????? ???????????????? ???????????? ???? ?????? ??????????? —— Join Erin for a 5-day mindfulness meditation retreat exploring themes of balance, transition, and letting go: ?????????? ???? ????????: ???????????? ???????????????????? 21 - 25 ?????????????????? 2025 BeingSattvaa, ????????, ???????? Retreat Details: https://lnkd.in/gZUaDrDj #retreat #meditation #mindfulness #practice #community #LightOnLife #AutumnAwakenings #TakeAPause #ErinLee #NianLife #Reminder #LiveBetter

BIG NEWS! Where better to convene a gathering of urban optimists to build more resilient futures for cities than one of the best cities in the world: Singapore! WRLDCTY is thrilled to announce a new collaboration with the Centre for Liveable Cities to support global knowledge sharing, enhance community connections and bring the 2026 annual WRLDCTY Global Forum to the World Cities Summit. ?? Where will WRLDCTY be in 2025 before we head to Singapore? Join us in the beautiful city of Vancouver, Canada. Details to be released soon! Since 2020, WRLDCTY has been a trusted platform to shape more future-ready cities through community, labs and global forums. WRLDCTY is the global stage for urbanists, visionaries, and change-makers driving the future of cities. Join our community?- spanning disciplines, industries, and geographies - who are actively designing the next generation of cities. Thank you to Hugh Lim, Michael Koh and their team for championing this MOU. WRLDCTY isn’t just about ideas. It’s about action. It’s about the cities we inherit—and the cities we create next.

Ramsgreatxid Connecting and regenerating communities, and looking at our shared space through a different lens using the Experience Improvement District (XID) as a framework A few steps forward .... We have an article in the Ramsgate Recorder introducing the XID. (I had a good chat with Cllr David Green on all things XID at the launch night, held at the wonderful @royalharbourbrasserie. It was great to see some folks from Happy Mondays one of my community projects) We have set up a company Remixd?Anupam Yog?Clare Inkster?and are busy behind the scenes creating a white paper for ramsgreatxid What’s next….. I am meeting artists and alternative practitioners to talk place-making in Ramsgate. We have a plan for 2025 including mindful mapping, urban acupuncture and hosting a WRLDCTY inspired summit in Ramsgate. Thanks to Kyra for the fantastic photos – this was part of her work experience - Creative Catalyst a programme offering work experience in the creative and culture sector in Ramsgate. Rebecca Smith MA MCIPD Ramsgate Town Council Dhanya Rajagopal Lucia Liddle

* Meanwhile, in Bilbao * Bilbao’s story of transformation has many layers… Culture and innovation are only two drivers of change here… What’s more interesting is a set of principles… The values… And the discipline to stay the course. It’s a consequence of a social compact that generates enabling conditions… To maintain a focus on high quality and continuous implementation … Across a series of interconnected projects…. That include housing and mobility… And a mindset… An attitude.. That prioritises a wholesome connection with all things social… And human… If you’re missing out on WRLDCTY in Bilbao this week… Cultivate JOMO… The Joy of Missing Out.. By joining us online :-) Sign up for a free virtual pass… https://lnkd.in/g22pvCUb Bilbao Metropoli 30 Resonance We Are MIXD Chris Fair Idoia Postigo Fuentes Erin Lee Jasmine Palardy Antonio Gomez-Palacio Gregorio Lucena Scarpella Sarah Ichioka Jakob Norman-Hansen Ann-Britt Elvin Andersen Rosanna Vitiello Jorick Beijer Lana Abdelhameed Sheena Khan Nadia Verjee Charles Landry Paul Owens Rebecca Mirasol Davison Mora Michael Koh Elaine Tan Peter Hyland Dr Anne Kovachevich Anthony Ryan Adrian Ellis Dr Tim Moonen Helle S?holt

Sunday nights are one of my favourite and most nourishing times of the week. This is when I log on to Insight Timer and guide the Take A Pause community in a 30-minute practice of mindfulness. I like to keep my work simple, and thankfully practicing mindfulness itself is such a simple thing - we just learn to pay attention, that is all. Just paying attention can offer so much insight into the way we are and the way we carry out our lives. Paying attention is how we begin to bring about change to a life that no longer works for us. And to pay attention, we need to learn to pause. A pause may last a year, when you go on a sabbatical; it may last a week, when you take a holiday to rejuvenate; it may last an hour, when you put aside everything and meditate; it may also last a moment, when you make use of that tiny gap between stimulus and response to make a healthier decision or take a more skilful action. At Take A Pause, we pause for 30 minutes at the end of the week, so that we give ourselves space to reset and begin again when Monday arrives. We meditate as a community, and practice mindful listening and contemplation as we share a curated reading that reminds us of a theme or teaching for the coming week. So wherever you are right now, I invite you to take a pause with me. We start at 9 pm Singapore Time. Join today’s #TakeAPause at: https://lnkd.in/gy9XPGHX I look forward to practicing with you. ???? Find out more about what I do at www.MindfulMoments.sg #TakeAPause #MindfulMoments #ErinLee #Practice #Community #Meditation #Health #Wellbeing #Wisdom #Resilience #Pause

* an investment in experience * Earlier this morning, on the invitation of my friend John Achari I gave a lecture on “Community Oriented Development” to a group of students from the The University of Queensland … As part of the provocations I shared, one was around the value of experience - our internal experience, as distinguished from the value of stimulus (experience generators)… This is a subtle yet profound reality we forget, all the time, we forget… What if the places we inhabit, that we move through, served as reminders that our inner experience shapes the way we perceive our external environment… We might shape our places, in reality, they shape us… As I moved through this commuter corridor in Singapore’s CBD, I was forced to take a pause to enjoy this citizen maestro’s free public performance… I am so grateful for everyone who enabled this experience… #consciouscities #thegigsit #placemaking #XIDs #remixd #wearemixd #districtBe Erin Lee We Are MIXD Conscious Cities Index The Big Sit Niàn Life Land Transport Authority (LTA) Singapore

?? Join WRLDCTY | The Bay Urban Visioning Awards in Bilbao Oct. 8 - 10 to rub shoulders with?these????? leading urban visionaries impacting the future of cities today. Access is limited. Get your in-person Bilbao summit ticket?today: ?? https://lnkd.in/gHYE45RU Or register to join virtually for free (spots are limited): ?? https://lnkd.in/gd_BH_NQ --- #WRLDCTY #urbanism #cities #placemaking #architecture #urbandevelopment #Bilbao #C40 #C40Cities #citiesforpeople #design #citybranding #sustainability #citymarketing

All roads lead to Rome. Most of them, at least. I read "The City At Eye Level" 15 years ago. I had recently returned from my Masters Degree in IHS, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam and was still dazzled by the heights to which the Dutch had taken the practice of making better cities for all. Fast forward, I am sharing a panel with Hans Karssenberg from STIPO, the producers of the idea, concept and book of The City At Eye Level. They shifted perspectives by inviting people to look at the dramatic effects that good ground floors could have in the quality of public spaces. One can say my entire practice derives from their idea. I'll be forever grateful. This time, along with Hans and prestigious Placemaker Jasmine Palardy, we will be talking about a "humble giant", which is a fitting analogy for the disproportionate effect that a great storefront can have on the health and beauty of cities. Thanks to my friend Anupam Yog's initiative, I'm happy to invite you all to this event, that promises to be fantastic. Part of WRLDCTY Urban Summit in Bilbao this coming October 8-12, which you can attend in person by following this link: https://lnkd.in/etXMDfkk or virtually for free following this link: https://lnkd.in/etsEXQph Thanks to Jennifer Dolynchuk for organizing. #Storefront #EconomicDevelopment #Placemaking #MainStreet

* superbia * Suburban Futures is a fantastic forum to explore the value of suburbs… It’s latest edition featured the launch of a new book,The Next Australian City, a comprehensive compendium and anthology of perspectives… At this year’s forum, I was pleased to keynote and introduce the “Experience Investment District” model, and discuss possibilities for Queensland ahead of the Brisbane 2032 games and beyond… Thank you Ross Elliott for the kind invitation… XIDs are gaining momentum as a tool for urban innovation, creative placemaking and as a strategy for habitat transformation. XIDs will take time to develop and mature, however, it’s heartening to see this idea take root in diverse conditions to support the development of healthy habitats, precincts, districts and neighbourhoods. Cities are getting more complex and the need to foster quality connections and connectivity is greater than ever before… This requires place governance, and stiching together new types of partnerships to produce good place outcomes… As Brisbane gets ready for the Olympics in 2032, it has an opportunity to shape a legacy for the entire region… Faster, Higher, Stronger Together will be a reality if the region focuses on becoming slower, grounded and better…together! A new narrative for cities and habitats is emerging, and it’s anchored by nature, culture, community and experience… #consciouscities #suburbanfutures #brisbane

* cultured bureaucracy vs bureaucratic culture * “Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled The battle outside ragin' Will soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'” Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, I witnessed the fall of several symbols of tyranny and oppression, of division and separation, of subjugation and trauma… We are human… Our biggest folly is our conceit, our righteousness, our beliefs in things seemingly solid… In reality, life, like our planet, is fragile, it is vulnerable, and ultimately it is impermanent… The only thing constant is change… Uncertainty is reality… The only skill we really need to cultivate is to learn how to surf on the edge of chaos… “The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is rapidly fadin' And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'” Come join my fellow panelists May East, Harm-Christian Tolden and Jonas Schorr today at the Creative Bureaucracy Festival in Berlin… We will have a conversation on “ Investments for Positive Socio-Economic Impact “, a Roundtable on the Forum Cities: Prototyping Democracy stage… Thank you Johanna Sieben, Robyn Bennett, Charles Landry and Sebastian Turner, as well as the Falling Walls Foundation, Table Media GmbH and all involved in making CBF happen…. #CBF24 #ProveKafkaWrong #XIDs #placeinnovation #ecologyofplace #experience XDG Labs We Are MIXD Resonance Conscious Cities Index The Big Sit WRLDCTY