22/10/2026
Day 2 United Planet in Bhutan.
was a moment I will remember forever.
Up.Game is a journey into exploring a future in harmony, where everybody shares a vision of what is possible. Before I shared mine, which I didn’t yet know, I stood for a moment and looked out over the landscape of Bhutan. I have never felt as safe in my whole body as I did then. I realized that it’s a special embodied feeling when you know that the leadership of a country comes from a place of deep compassion and awareness.
To stand on land where people lead for the benefit of all, where spiritual awareness is at the top of the priority list, progress comes somewhere further down, and profit lands around place ten, while family and community come before everything else. That is a beautiful way to look at life and our world.
I will never forget that moment. Lucian Tarnowski took this picture of me standing there, looking out over the valley, arms up, feeling filled with life force energy. Absolutely incredible.
Then came a delicious meal and beautiful conversations with fellow Up.Gamers and visionaries. Afterwards, at our hotel, we were treated to a true performance by grandmothers. It wasn’t a performance of classic perfection, as we might be used to in the modern world. It was a performance of perfect authenticity. They were not performers. They simply lived their culture and invited us to experience it and enjoy it together with them.
