Ingi Mehus
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Norwegian Native or bilingual proficiency
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Dutch Professional working proficiency
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Japanese Elementary proficiency
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Russian Elementary proficiency
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Bio
Meghann Ormond
Ingi Mehus is brilliant, fearless, creative, considerate, inspiring and dynamic. She wears many hats, and rocks all of them. First off, Ingi is an extraordinary storytelling facilitator and transformative learning guide. I can personally attest to her two-day storytelling workshops being truly life-changing -- and I'd recommend them to everyone! Likewise, my students at Wageningen University (who have done variants of the workshop over the years) have been extremely impressed by how she's able to develop a real sense of empathy, trust and community within a diverse group of people in a short time. But there's more... It's been an incredible honour to work and learn alongside Ingi for the last few years in the scope of our transdisciplinary Roots Guide project (https://rootsguide.org/), an alternative travel guidebook about The Netherlands as seen through the eyes of migrants and travellers -- a project that is very dear to both Ingi and me, as migrants living in The Netherlands. Whether she's gathering and co-crafting the beautiful and poignant stories for the guidebook, managing the project team and administration, or out in public advocating for the voices of people with migration backgrounds to be heard and amplified, she is always 100% Ingi in whatever she does: conscientious, ethical, inclusive, affirming, motivating and honest. And she makes everyone working with her aspire to those same standards. I'm very thankful to be part of the Roots Guide team as a result of this. Ingi somehow manages to both ground us and help us soar at the same time. So, it's pretty clear that I'm a fan of Ingi and all she does for the people whose lives she touches. If you don't know her yet, I'm certain that you'll quickly come to be a fan, too.
Emily Miki
Ingi is amazingly inspiring and her story telling skills got me spell bound during the Pitch and Mix Night that opened the ChangemakersXchange 2019 session in Lagos, Nigeria. I am particular impressed by her humility and availability to share her wealth of experience with every new class of the Ashoka ChangemakersXchange program. I can confidently say Ingi is a great Mentor!
Meghann Ormond
Ingi Mehus is brilliant, fearless, creative, considerate, inspiring and dynamic. She wears many hats, and rocks all of them. First off, Ingi is an extraordinary storytelling facilitator and transformative learning guide. I can personally attest to her two-day storytelling workshops being truly life-changing -- and I'd recommend them to everyone! Likewise, my students at Wageningen University (who have done variants of the workshop over the years) have been extremely impressed by how she's able to develop a real sense of empathy, trust and community within a diverse group of people in a short time. But there's more... It's been an incredible honour to work and learn alongside Ingi for the last few years in the scope of our transdisciplinary Roots Guide project (https://rootsguide.org/), an alternative travel guidebook about The Netherlands as seen through the eyes of migrants and travellers -- a project that is very dear to both Ingi and me, as migrants living in The Netherlands. Whether she's gathering and co-crafting the beautiful and poignant stories for the guidebook, managing the project team and administration, or out in public advocating for the voices of people with migration backgrounds to be heard and amplified, she is always 100% Ingi in whatever she does: conscientious, ethical, inclusive, affirming, motivating and honest. And she makes everyone working with her aspire to those same standards. I'm very thankful to be part of the Roots Guide team as a result of this. Ingi somehow manages to both ground us and help us soar at the same time. So, it's pretty clear that I'm a fan of Ingi and all she does for the people whose lives she touches. If you don't know her yet, I'm certain that you'll quickly come to be a fan, too.
Emily Miki
Ingi is amazingly inspiring and her story telling skills got me spell bound during the Pitch and Mix Night that opened the ChangemakersXchange 2019 session in Lagos, Nigeria. I am particular impressed by her humility and availability to share her wealth of experience with every new class of the Ashoka ChangemakersXchange program. I can confidently say Ingi is a great Mentor!
Meghann Ormond
Ingi Mehus is brilliant, fearless, creative, considerate, inspiring and dynamic. She wears many hats, and rocks all of them. First off, Ingi is an extraordinary storytelling facilitator and transformative learning guide. I can personally attest to her two-day storytelling workshops being truly life-changing -- and I'd recommend them to everyone! Likewise, my students at Wageningen University (who have done variants of the workshop over the years) have been extremely impressed by how she's able to develop a real sense of empathy, trust and community within a diverse group of people in a short time. But there's more... It's been an incredible honour to work and learn alongside Ingi for the last few years in the scope of our transdisciplinary Roots Guide project (https://rootsguide.org/), an alternative travel guidebook about The Netherlands as seen through the eyes of migrants and travellers -- a project that is very dear to both Ingi and me, as migrants living in The Netherlands. Whether she's gathering and co-crafting the beautiful and poignant stories for the guidebook, managing the project team and administration, or out in public advocating for the voices of people with migration backgrounds to be heard and amplified, she is always 100% Ingi in whatever she does: conscientious, ethical, inclusive, affirming, motivating and honest. And she makes everyone working with her aspire to those same standards. I'm very thankful to be part of the Roots Guide team as a result of this. Ingi somehow manages to both ground us and help us soar at the same time. So, it's pretty clear that I'm a fan of Ingi and all she does for the people whose lives she touches. If you don't know her yet, I'm certain that you'll quickly come to be a fan, too.
Emily Miki
Ingi is amazingly inspiring and her story telling skills got me spell bound during the Pitch and Mix Night that opened the ChangemakersXchange 2019 session in Lagos, Nigeria. I am particular impressed by her humility and availability to share her wealth of experience with every new class of the Ashoka ChangemakersXchange program. I can confidently say Ingi is a great Mentor!
Meghann Ormond
Ingi Mehus is brilliant, fearless, creative, considerate, inspiring and dynamic. She wears many hats, and rocks all of them. First off, Ingi is an extraordinary storytelling facilitator and transformative learning guide. I can personally attest to her two-day storytelling workshops being truly life-changing -- and I'd recommend them to everyone! Likewise, my students at Wageningen University (who have done variants of the workshop over the years) have been extremely impressed by how she's able to develop a real sense of empathy, trust and community within a diverse group of people in a short time. But there's more... It's been an incredible honour to work and learn alongside Ingi for the last few years in the scope of our transdisciplinary Roots Guide project (https://rootsguide.org/), an alternative travel guidebook about The Netherlands as seen through the eyes of migrants and travellers -- a project that is very dear to both Ingi and me, as migrants living in The Netherlands. Whether she's gathering and co-crafting the beautiful and poignant stories for the guidebook, managing the project team and administration, or out in public advocating for the voices of people with migration backgrounds to be heard and amplified, she is always 100% Ingi in whatever she does: conscientious, ethical, inclusive, affirming, motivating and honest. And she makes everyone working with her aspire to those same standards. I'm very thankful to be part of the Roots Guide team as a result of this. Ingi somehow manages to both ground us and help us soar at the same time. So, it's pretty clear that I'm a fan of Ingi and all she does for the people whose lives she touches. If you don't know her yet, I'm certain that you'll quickly come to be a fan, too.
Emily Miki
Ingi is amazingly inspiring and her story telling skills got me spell bound during the Pitch and Mix Night that opened the ChangemakersXchange 2019 session in Lagos, Nigeria. I am particular impressed by her humility and availability to share her wealth of experience with every new class of the Ashoka ChangemakersXchange program. I can confidently say Ingi is a great Mentor!
Credentials
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Co-Active Fundamentals
Co-Active Training InstituteMay, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Leading Powerful Collaboration for Systems Change
AshokaFeb, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Virtual Facilitation on the topic of 'Online Facilitation' (14 hours)
ChangemakerXchangeNov, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Drawing for Wellbeing - Graphic Facilitation workshop
Housatonic - We Make It EasyMay, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Media Training
Media First LtdFeb, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Sciencetelling Bootcamp
National GeographicOct, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Train-the-Trainers summit II
ChangemakerXchangeApr, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Invisible Influencers: Understanding Unconscious Bias
National GeographicJan, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
EUtopia? Diversity in Changing Europe - Creative youth work lab for rethinking diversity solutions (6 months)
Salto resource centerJul, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Train-the-Trainers summit
ChangemakerXchangeApr, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Advanced Quality on Training
Nederlands JeugdinstituutDec, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
Partnership Building-Activities
Out of the Box InternationalJun, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
Political Communication training (visual storytelling)
European AlternativesJan, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
Training Workshop on Hate Crimes for Civil Society Representatives of the United for Intercultural Action Network
OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)May, 2015- Nov, 2024 -
Toelating 1 & 2
VluchtelingenWerk NederlandApr, 2015- Nov, 2024 -
First Aid training
The Fire Department Region West NorwayMay, 2014- Nov, 2024 -
Introduction for Business Startup
SkapeDec, 2013- Nov, 2024 -
Conflict Management for Asylum Reception Centres
HERO NorgeJun, 2013- Nov, 2024 -
Motivational Interviewing Methodology Advanced Course
UDI UtlendingsdirektoratetApr, 2013- Nov, 2024 -
Motivational Interviewing Methodology Beginners Course
HERO NorgeJan, 2013- Nov, 2024 -
Training for Advisors for the project 'The Road Ahead'
UDI UtlendingsdirektoratetJan, 2013- Nov, 2024 -
United Nations Basic Security in the Field II Online Training
International Organization for Migration (IOM)Oct, 2012- Nov, 2024 -
CPC Entrepreneurship Experience Program
Chew's Place Consulting and UQ Business SchoolAug, 2010- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Pocket Stories
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Netherlands
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Civic and Social Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Founder and Director
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Jan 2014 - Present
Pocket Stories is a non-profit organisation connecting people with unheard voices through storytelling to embrace and celebrate diversity. We achieve this by offering storytelling training, tools, and events to people with different cultural, social, and professional backgrounds to empower them to use their own journey and story as an inspiration to build bridges between their communities. Main projects include Roots Guide project (supported by National Geographic Society) and Storytelling Journey.www.ourpocketstories.org
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Project Manager and Facilitator
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Jan 2015 - Present
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ChangemakerXchange
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Germany
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Civic and Social Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Facilitator for change and program consultant
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Jan 2018 - Present
Global facilitator and host for the international collaboration platform ChangemakerXchange co-created by Ashoka and Robert Bosch Stiftung.ChangemakerXchange Cultural Diversity & Dialogue Summit in NL, 2018. ChangemakerXchange Rural Communities Summit in France, 2018. ChangemakerXchange Summit in Nigeria, 2019. ChangemakerXchange Empathy & Social Emotional Intelligence Summit in Germany, 2019.Ashoka European Changermaker Summit in Spain 2019.International virtual summits and programs- COVID-19 Collective Action Summit. Online, 2020. 100 participants. Hosted by ChangemakerXchange together with SAP, Obama Foundation, Yunus and Youth, Bridge for Billions, Bosch Alumni Network, ChangeNOW, Ginkgo Foundation, Global Changemakers, and Global Shapers Community.- Youth Power 2.0 Changemaker Summit, 2020. Online. 36 participants. A collabortion between ChangemakerXchange and SOS Village Children International.- Youth Power 2.0 Virtual Accelerator Program, January - October 2021. Online. 36 participants. Lead facilitator.- Project lead and co-facilitator for the Bosch Alumni network 'Social Innovation Cluster' from October 2020 to October 2021.
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ChangemakerXchange Alumnus
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Apr 2015 - Present
Alumnus at the ChangemakerXchange network co-created by Ashoka and Bosch Stiftung.ChangemakerXchange summit in Turkey, 2015ChangemakerXchange Network summit in Morocco, 2016ChangemakerXchange Co-Creation summit in Turkey, 2017ChangemakerXchange Virtual Co-Creation summit, 2018ChangemakerXchange Co-Creation summit in France, 2019ChangemakerXchange Virtual Co-Creation summit, 2020
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ImpactAimers
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Professional Training and Coaching
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Co-Founder
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May 2015 - May 2017
I am the co-founder of ImpactAimers, a collaboration born out of passionate young social entrepreneurs from all over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. ImpactAimers empowers young people to kick-start a career as changemakers through immersive youth camps. We guide them through an exploration of your passions and talents to develop essential competences to create social and environmental enterprises. We also invite them to join our international network of social entrepreneurs to spark new collaborations for positive change.Our first summit took place in Algeria on 19-21 February 2016. For a report on the first youth camp, please read my blog for Salt Magazine: http://www.wearesalt.org/how-changemaker-communities-are-bringing-young-entrepreneurs-together/. The second summit was in Ireland on 13-16 October 2016.For more information, please visit our website: https://impactaimers.org.
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Guest Lecturer
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Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Designed and hosted guest lecture on how to meaningfully and ethically collect personal stories in arts and heritage work for cultural heritage students. Designed and hosted guest lecture on how to meaningfully and ethically collect personal stories in arts and heritage work for cultural heritage students.
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European Cultural Foundation
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Netherlands
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Digital European
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Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
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Advisor
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Jan 2013 - Dec 2014
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IOM - UN Migration
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Switzerland
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International Affairs
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Development Intern
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Sep 2012 - Jan 2013
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Casual 'Aussie Conversationalist'
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Feb 2008 - Jul 2012
In-class language support for international students and other migrants. In-class language support for international students and other migrants.
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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Switzerland
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International Affairs
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700 & Above Employee
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Protection Intern
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Nov 2011 - Feb 2012
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Store Manager
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Jun 2005 - Jul 2007
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Education
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The University of Queensland
Master of Development Practise, Politics of Global Development -
The University of Queensland
Bachelor of Communication, Organisational Communication -
Komazawa University
Japanese Language exchange programme, Japanese Studies