Podcast appearances and mentions of paul bulencea

Every building comes with a set of expectations. Students are quiet in a library, but loud on a playground. Adults are focused in their deckchairs yet chatty on bar stools. Witnessing the limitations of conventional building design, Jan Golembiewski began to leverage design psychology to improve the lives of different groups, from inmates to the elderly. As one of the world's leading researchers in architectural design psychology, Dr. Golembiewski works to create spaces that prioritize health and overall flourishing. Dr. Jan Golembiewski is the director and nominated architect of Psychological Design, as well as the co-founder and CEO of Earthbuilt Technology. Dr. Golembiewski is committed to understanding how the built environment impacts human health and well-being, conducting extensive research on the intersection of design and psychology and salutogenic design.In this episode, Dart and Jan discuss:- A unique design approach called salutogenesis- Designing a workplace where employees can thrive- Salutogenic architecture  - Balancing affordances and choices in design- The narrative context embedded in architecture- How money-driven architecture affects livability- The key traits of salutogenic architects- And other topics…Dr. Jan Golembiewski is one of the world's leading researchers in architectural design psychology. He is the director and nominated architect of Psychological Design, as well as the co-founder and CEO of Earthbuilt Technology. Dr. Golembiewski is committed to understanding how the built environment impacts human health and well-being, conducting extensive research on the intersection of design and psychology. Through his work on salutogenic design psychology, he creates spaces that encourage not only productivity but individual flourishing. Dr. Golembiewski received his Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Sydney. He currently serves as an editorial board member for the Prudence Journal of Medicine and Medical Science and The Rangsit Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. His work has earned him a fellowship in the Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, and he is the only designer hired by the Schizophrenia Research Institute. Resources mentioned:“The Art of Transformation: Experience Design for Transformative Experiences | Claus Raasted and Paul Bulencea.” Work for Humans. August 2023. The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth, by Christopher Alexander: https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Life-Beauty-Earth-World-Systems/dp/0199898073 Connect with Jan:www.psychological.designGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vwuUGOkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=aoMagic, by Jan Golembiewski: https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Jan-Golembiewski-ebook/dp/B07J5RNFWV 

Claus Raasted and Paul Bulencea are dedicated to the art of transformation. Their immersive 5-day event, known as the College of Extraordinary Experiences, unites a diverse array of individuals from esteemed voice talent show judges to 16th-generation Samurais. Together, they strive to empower ordinary people, fostering personal growth and a profound level of self-awareness. Through their expertise, Claus and Paul have become accomplished design professionals, inspiring organizational transformations within companies that push employees and individuals to new heights.Claus Raasted is a Danish entrepreneur, keynote speaker, lecturer, podcaster, and transformational designer. He has spoken at over 1,000+ live events and worked for companies like Ikea, Disney, Google, Marriott, Panasonic, and the Discovery Channel, among others.Paul Bulencea is an award-winning author, educator, entrepreneur, speaker, and experience designer who has worked with Fortune 500 companies and governments across the globe. His work aims to drive growth by shifting business models from services to co-creative transformational experiences. In this episode, Dart, Claus, and Paul discuss:- The College of Extraordinary Experiences- Building a creative experience around an objective- What transformation means in different contexts- Why we should embrace difficulties instead of avoiding them- The qualities of a transformative professor or lecturer- How a CEO can introduce a transformative experience to a company- Designing the right space to cultivate change- Transformative experiences for employees- And other topics…Claus Raasted is a Danish entrepreneur, keynote speaker, lecturer, podcaster, and transformational designer. He is a live-action role-play (LARP) pioneer and current CEO of Dziobak Larp Studios, a LARP design collective. Claus has spoken at over 1,000+ live events and worked for companies like Ikea, Disney, Google, Marriott, Panasonic, and the Discovery Channel, among others.Paul Bulencea is an award-winning author, educator, entrepreneur, speaker, and experience designer who has worked with Fortune 500 companies and governments across the globe. His work aims to drive growth by shifting business models from services to co-creative transformational experiences. He holds a masters in Innovation in Tourism from the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences where he was awarded the Best University Graduate by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce.Together, Claus and Paul helped found the College of Extraordinary Experiences, a 5-day experience journey providing hands-on learning and growth for professionals from around the world.Resources Mentioned:Extraordinary.college Connect with Claus and Paul:https://www.clausraasted.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbulencea 

“I sit for an hour and I get to know the neighbours - the more than human neighbours.” Paul Bulencea is an experience designer focused on the nature of the transformational experience. He has created many experience concepts globally and is currently focusing on collaborating with wilderness to spark and maintain a much needed shift in perception. He is the co-founder of the College of Extraordinary Experiences, a global gathering that takes place in a 13th century castle in Poland with the aim of exploring the field of experience design. He is the co-author of Gamification in Tourism: Designing Memorable Experiences and is currently working on a second book about guiding transformations.  https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl Timeline 00.00 - 00.44 Intro Theme 00.46 - 04.32 Introducing Paul Bulencea 04.34 - 06.20  Native Seed Shakers 06.25 - 09.40 Noticing the wilderness in the city 11.41 - 14.08 Creating edible landscapes 14.08 - 18.56 Community Supported Agriculture 18.56 - 21.50 Deconditioning industrial thinking 23.00 - How to do a ‘sit spot' - connecting with nature 26.45 - 28.00 Honey (a sit-spot poem) 28.00 - 33.38 Wanderful Exercise: The Sit Spot 33.40 - Epilogue: The bells! The bells! Quotes “When you're looking for wildlife, you will be surprised at the amount of wildlife in the cities… but that's where the food is.” (Paul) “You can eat all mushrooms, but some of them you can only eat once.” (Paul) “What if we had cities inside edible landscapes?.” (Paul) “We're eating very few edible crops. We cultivate very few because we have this industrial thinking.” (Paul) “This push for consistency - what's so great about consistency?” (David) “I sit for an hour and I get to know the neighbours - the more than human neighbours.” (Paul) Further Information Community Supported Agriculture - https://communitysupportedagriculture.org.uk/ George Monibot - Regenesis - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/317018/regenesis-by-monbiot-george/9780241447642 The plant David is sitting next to…we think…any knowledgeable horticulturalists, let us know! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerodendrum_infortunatum Links Paul Bulencea (Guest) www.extraordinary.college https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbulencea/ Instagram @paul.bulencea David Pearl (Host) Twitter @DavidPearlHere Instagram @davidpearl_here Website www.davidpearl.net Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer) Twitter @ItPainesMe The Green Room at COP26 - What (On Earth's) The Story? Full film: https://youtu.be/UWoO9UmWscM Trailer: https://youtu.be/zmQqj5WHSPM

"The wolves represent ‘wildness' and if you ever have the occasion to see them and walk in the same place where they live and share the same territory as them, it's a privilege." Paul Bulencea is an award-winning author, educator, entrepreneur and speaker inspiring forward-thinking Fortune 500 companies and governments to foster innovation and drive sustainable growth by shifting business models from services to co-creative transformational experiences. Following his vision to help organisations migrate to the Experience Economy, he co-founded The College of Extraordinary Experiences in 2016, which serves as a worldwide community and think tank for experience designers. The College is described by creative thought leaders a must for pioneers in experience design.  Since she was a child Valeria Roselli walked along the paths through the forest of the mountains where she was born. Her curiosity led her to explore and get to know the territory. While listening to stories from older people in the area, Valeria learnt the importance of the local traditions and how necessary it was to preserve traditions and value the past. Her love of nature and for the Abruzzo mountain's became her passion, which in turn became her profession. She is now a nature guide, environmental interpreter and Nordic walking instructor and an expert guide in the Italian Apennines. https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl   Timeline 00.00 - 00.44 Intro Theme 00.45 - 06.54 David introduces the re-wilding special 06.55 - 11.59 What is the fascination with ‘tracking' wildlife? 12.00 - 12.48 Combining tracking with trailing 12.50 - 13.53 The benefits of sitting and observing 13.56 - 17.15 The story of the Red Deer 17.30 - 26.55 The Eye of the Wild Bison 26.57 - 29.54 What we can learn from the Wolves? 29.56 - 32.00 David's ‘Sit Spot' exercise - observing nature 32.22 - 36.08 Epilogue: The story of the fox 36.09 - Bonus Feature: David descends the mountain (field recording)   Quotes “What I like about tracking is that it shows you how everything is inter-connected. (Therefore), it's much easier to become self-aware and to understand how inter-twined everything is by observing and seeing and noticing.” (Paul) “Trailing is where you follow the tracks until you find and discover the animal.” (Paul) “The moments spent in nature are special. Every day is a new day for a new moment and a new emotion.” (Valeria) “One of the Bison came very close, he was very curious… about 7 metres and was just looking at us. I made eye-contact and in that gaze with a wild animal… it felt like finding ‘home'. It's very hard to describe because it's an experience we rarely have nowadays.” (Paul) “When you're calm and not tense, then you start seeing things all around you.” (Paul) "The wolves represent ‘wildness' and if you ever have the occasion to see them and walk in the same place where they live and share the same territory as them, it's a privilege.” (Valeria)     Links Paul Bulencea https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbulencea/ Valeria Roselli https://www.wildlifeadventures.it/en/meet-our-team/ David Pearl (Host) Twitter @DavidPearlHere Instagram @davidpearl_here Website www.davidpearl.net Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer) Twitter @ItPainesMe The Green Room at COP26 - What (On Earth's) The Story? Full film: https://youtu.be/UWoO9UmWscM Trailer: https://youtu.be/zmQqj5WHSPM

What is the difference between transformative and experience design? Our guest, Paul Bulencea, compares it (after professor Martin Seligman) to the cosmetic versus curative treatment. Together we explore the transformative journey as a way to re-wild yourself, to reconnect with your true nature and your path. Using the example of the College of Extraordinary Experiences, Paul is a co-founder of, we define the difference between the safe and the brave space and chat about the importance of being brave on your way to personal discovery.LINKS“The Experience Economy” by Joe Pine and Jim Gilmore"Gamification in Tourism" by Paul Bulencea“My octopus teacher” on Netflix“The hero with a thousand faces” by Joseph Campbell

Join us for a conversation on designing transformational experiences and how to help people integrate them afterwards with Paul Bulencea, creator of the College of Extraordinary Experiences.

Join us for a conversation on designing transformational experiences and how to help people integrate them afterwards with Paul Bulencea, creator of the College of Extraordinary Experiences.

Designer and entrepreneur Paul Bulencea, who is the co-creator of the college of extraordinary experiences, visits the Experience by Design studios. Paul’s personal journey started with a Masters degree in recreation while in Salzburg. Blending gamification and experience design, Paul and his advisor created new ground in the space of tourism experiences in the book Gamification in Tourism. A chance encounter with a Nordic LARPing leader resulted in them exploring how to rent places to create immersive experiences, influenced by the work of Punch Drunk and Meow Wolf. The idea was to take LARPing, mix it with game design, and run a professional conference. Where those things intersect, you will find the College of Extraordinary Experiences.The College is not just there to have an extraordinary experience while attending, but through your experiences while taking part you will begin to find the extraordinary in everyday life. Doing so comes with some potential costs as these experiences and the journey you take with others can expose old wounds that have yet healed. But the point is to become transformed not only professionally, but personally and hopefully spiritually. The college is based on the Hero’s Journey, where you come through the abyss to be renewed at the end. A feature of this transformation is that you see how everything is extraordinary if you can see it’s extraordinary nature. The goal is to provide participants with a pathway to rediscover through an intense multiple day journey that combines education and LARPing in a Polish castle. The challenge becomes, especially in modern society, how can we get back in touch with the extraordinary experiences of everyday life

Innovation is only true innovation when it is put on the market and validated with customers. With our esteemed guest, Joe Pine, the author of (among many others) “The Experience Economy”, we investigate the innovation space for experience design. We dig into the value of long-term thinking and the importance of considering the employee experience next to staging the experiences for customers. We tap into a concept of regenerative management and into the importance of underpromising to create powerful word-of-mouth.Please note that this episode was recorded before the outbreak of the coronavirus   —  some of the comments refer to the situation before the pandemic. LINKSJoseph Pine II, James Gilmore, “The Experience Economy”James Gilmore, Joseph Pine II, “Authenticity”J. Robert Rossman, Mathew D.Duerden, “Designing Experiences”Roman Egger, Paul Bulencea, “Gamification in Tourism”Benjamin Hunnicutt, “The Age of Experiences”

Paul is an award-winning author, educator, entrepreneur and speaker inspiring forward-thinking Fortune 500 companies and governments to foster innovation and drive sustainable growth by shifting business models from services to co-creative transformational experiences. Paul is co-founder and chief experience designer at The College of Extraordinary Experiences https://www.extraordinary.college/ www.gamification-in-tourism.com   Paul can be found here https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbulencea/   Mindchimp Sponsor: Venndorly "Where finding learning has developed" www.venndorly.co.uk

Paul Bulencea, is a Romanian Experience Designer, with an unquenchable need to play and explore the universe. He is the co-author of the book Gamification in Tourism and one of the founders of the College of Extraordinary Experiences a remarkable, physical interpretation of Pine and Gilmore's "Experience Economy". Paul was also recognised by Forbes in 2018's 30-under-30. Episode Details Paul on LinkedIn Paul on Instagram Paul's Experience Design Podcast Paul's Forbes 30-under-30 Book: Gamification in Tourism Experience Economy College of Extraordinary Experiences Dzobiak Larp Studios Seligman’s PERMA Model Flow Theory Jane Meconigal - Games Research Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși The Wonder Book - Jeff Vandermeer Atlas Unbound - Alexa Firmenich Barnet Bain - Film Producer Jason Silva Claus Raasted IKEA Box Nightmare Case Study Facebook Page The Roadtrip Live Action Role Play Adventure College of Wizardry Yas Waterworld Experience Important Links You can get hold of me, Werner on Twitter @weenerdawg Or LinkedIn: Werner Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or in your favourite podcast app with our RSS feed: https://rss.simplecast.com/podcasts/4348/rss

I was pleased to receive Paul Bulencea who has published the book Gamification in Tourism. In this episode, we spoke on: How to Design Extraordinary Travel Experiences thru Gamification. The travel industry is at a point where market differentiation has become more crucial than ever. Tourism is extremely accessible. More and more tourists have become very skilled at using search and metasearch engines to find the best price-quality ratio for tourism services. Businesses started to do cost-cutting and automation of their services in order to remain competitive. Cheap and fast access to destinations has triggered destinations and tourism businesses to compete in a global market that now has also competitors from the rapid growing sharing economy (Airbnb, Uber, Eatwith). Source: The Experience Economy; www.amazon.fr/Experience-Economy…Pine/dp/1422161978

Paul Bulencea este autorul cărții Gamification in Tourism. Paul creează experiențe memorabile în turism, precum și în alte industrii.

Today, we talk with Paul Bulencea, who is the co-founder of the College of Extraordinary Experiences, a disruptive annual experience design conference that is held in a castle in Poland. Paul discusses how the economy is shifting from being based on services to being based on experiences and how businesses can beat commoditization by providing memorable experiences. Check out the show notes for all references and links. ________ Love what you hear? Please subscribe, rate, and review us! Each review goes a long way! Special thanks to Monica Shriver of BraveMusician.com for this episode's theme music.