Biography
Eivind Figenschau Skjellum
I’m a trained graphic designer and IT technician who was born in 1978. I trained for my BA degree in graphic design at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, during which three years I developed my affection for England. That’s also where I connected with my desire to grow as a human being, for I was going through some really deep existential inner conflicts back then. I remember once thinking the thought I wish on no other man “Am I just a waste of space and resources?”. I sometimes hesitate using the words spiritual because I know it makes some people freak out, but truth be told – it was a time of spiritual awakening for me and I’ve been working on improving my life and ability to serve on this planet ever since.
I first started working with Staale after he contacted me via Zaadz, a now defunct community for people interested in self-development. We hooked up locally here in Oslo and soon found that we held some shared aspirations. Every Tuesday since that time – almost without fail – we have met to discuss our life and our visions and challenging each other to be our very best.
Early on in that period, I discovered my passion: Men’s work. I understood that the tremendous challenges I had back in my early twenties were to a large part caused by the fact that noone had ever told me what it meant to be a man. Noone had told me about my own gender identity. So there I was, the younger brother of two older sisters, and a pretty reserved guy, and I didn’t know what it meant to be male.
And I asked myself the question “Why has noone told me?”. And the answer frightened me. I realized it is because hardly anyone really knows. The knowledge of how to be a man – in the very best sense of the word – is lost to us. I decided to rediscover it and started reading people such as Robert Bly, Robert Moore and David Deida. What I discovered was tragic: Manhood has been equated with violence and destruction and so we decided to discard it from society. Hence the cultural climate that caused me to think several years previously if I were just a waste of space. Inspired by a night of watching movies with my girlfriend at the time, I went forward and started the website Masculinity Movies, where I’m exploring these questions.
When we approached 2010, I decided it was time to step it up with Staale and that we should initiate our selv development exam. Staale had invested a sizable chunk of money in a bunch of Portapads one year previously, but hadn’t had success selling them. At that point, I had just become a Portapad user myself, and I really dug the product, so I said hang on! – let’s try this one more time.
And here we are, trying to get a Product I love out to the masses so that I can keep working on what I feel passionately invested in – resurrecting the image of a positive manhood in our culture and in myself.I’m a trained graphic designer and IT technician who was born in 1978. I trained for my BA degree in graphic design at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, during which three years I developed my affection for England. That’s also where I connected with my desire to grow as a human being, for I was going through some really deep existential inner conflicts back then. I remember once thinking the thought I wish on no other man “Am I just a waste of space and resources?”. So I started a spiritual search.
I first started working with Staale after he contacted me via Zaadz, a now defunct community for people interested in self growth. We hooked up locally here in Oslo and soon found that we had a shared interest in self development. Every Tuesday since that time – almost without fail – we have met to discuss our life, our visions, and how we can best serve each other.
Early on in that period, I discovered my passion: Men’s work. I understood that the tremendous challenges I had had back in my early twenties were to a large part caused by the fact that noone had ever told me what it meant to be a man. Noone had told me about my own gender identity. So there I was, the younger brother of two older sisters, and a pretty reserved guy, and didn’t know what it meant to be male.
And I asked myself the question “Why has noone told me?”. And the answer frightened me. I realized it is because noone knows. The knowledge of how to be a man – in the very best sense of the word – is lost to us. I decided to rediscover it and started reading people such as Robert Bly, Robert Moore and David Deida. What I discovered was tragic: Manhood has been equated with violence and destruction and so we decided to discard it from society. Hence the cultural climate that caused me to think several years previously if I were just a waste of space. Inspired by a night of watching movies with my girlfriend at the time, I went forward and started the website Masculinity Movies, where I’m exploring these questions.
When we approached 2010, I decided it was time to step it up with Staale and that we should initiate our selv development exam. Staale had invested a sizable chunk of money in a bunch of Portapads one year previously, but hadn’t had success selling them. At that point, I had just become a Portapad user myself, and I really dug the product, so I said hang on! – let’s try this one more time.
And here I am, trying to create market penetration with a product I love so that I can keep working on my true passion – resurrecting the image of a positive manhood in our culture and in myself.
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Eivind Figenschau Skjellum
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