Jeg blev fanget af kajakglæden i 2004, og siden har jeg udfordret mig selv på saltvandskysterne og delt glæden og begejstringen med andre kajakroere.
Jeg er selvstændig kajakunderviser. Min store passion er at skabe oplevelser, glæde og følelsen af frihed i kajakker og surfski.
Jeg brænder særligt for havkajakkens og surfskiens muligheder for eventyr, friluftsliv, tekniske og mentale udfordringer og motion. Ved siden af havkajak og surfski ror jeg af og til surfkajak og padler kano og SUP.
Siden 2013 har jeg udviklet Kajakenergi for at hjælpe havkajakroere med at udvikle deres færdigheder og opleve større glæde på vandet, i et hjælpsomt online-fællesskab med struktureret, gennemarbejdet viden og gennemtænkte svar.
Jeg holder til i Glyngøre, mit lokale rovand er Sallingsund, og jeg nyder også at ro kajak i Vesterhavets bølger.
Jeg blev fanget af kajakglæden i 2004, og siden har jeg udfordret mig selv på saltvandskysterne og delt glæden og begejstringen med andre kajakroere.
Jeg er selvstændig kajakunderviser. Min store passion er at skabe oplevelser, glæde og følelsen af frihed i kajakker og surfski.
Jeg brænder særlig…
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How I upload videos to Simplero course platform
If interested in how I host my webinar/course videos in Simplero, here's the process I do after every webinar / course session!
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@George Kao Thank you - this is a great addition of insights. The more i see around how you do stuff, the clearer the picture of how to implement this.
It is great that you share so many implementation details from your setup - even useful in scenarios that are less complex, they can still benefit from some degree of automation.
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What if only a few people show up?
After setting up your registration and tracking systems in the last couple of lessons, a common thought might creep in: "What if hardly anyone registers? What if only one or two people actually show up live?" This is a normal feeling... but allow me to offer a perspective shift that might transform this anxiety into an opportunity. Every Session is Valuable Practice: Whether one person shows up to your live FTA webinar, or ten, or even zero initially, consider each time you prepare and offer your teaching as incredibly valuable: You are honing your craft: Every time you structure your thoughts, practice your delivery, and manage the technology, you get better. You are testing your material: You gain insights into what resonates, what's clear, and what might need adjustment, even just through the act of preparing and speaking it aloud. You are practicing presence: You build comfort and confidence in sharing your energy and knowledge in an online format. Trust the Process: Growth Happens Over Time Especially when you're starting out, or testing a new topic, attendance might be small. Please know that this is normal. If you keep launching FTAs consistently and continue practicing market discovery to choose topics your audience genuinely wants (as we covered in Modules 2 & 3), your attendance will likely grow over time. The key is persistence and relevance. An Inspiring Story of Dedication: To put this in perspective, I want to share a deeply moving story about service and dedication beyond numbers. It's a reflection by the spiritual teacher Adyashanti about his first teacher, Arvis Joen Justi: "When she first started to offer teachings at her house, she would sit down after preparing everything, but nobody would show up. Still she wrote a talk, set up her meditation room, and opened her house even single week, week after week. Sometimes, out of compassion, her husband would sit with her, but mostly she sat alone. She continued to do this for an entire year without a single person coming. That is dedication! What service to the dharma, the Buddhist teaching - not being in service to how many people appear, to numbers or normal measures of success, but to doing what she was called to do. After a year, one person came, and for the next year it was Arvis and that one person. As word slowly spread, more people arrived, until sometimes she would have fifteen or twenty people. Her dedication was a great teaching for me. It touched my heart because it spoke to what service is: the willingness to put ourselves in a position of giving, to be an embodiment of what we are dedicated to, and to put our life, time, attention and energy into the most important things. Even when Arvis was sitting in her living room alone, she was in service to all the people who might show up in the future. Many years later, I ended up being one of those people." (You can find this reflection shared on my Facebook profile here: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgeKao/posts/10112514950126433) Your Service Matters, Regardless of Numbers Think of your FTA webinar, even if only one person attends live, as an act of service – service to your dedication, service to honing your message, and service to all the people who might benefit from it in the future, whether through the recording or future iterations. Action Step / Reflection: Take a moment to reflect on the above story and the idea of teaching as practice and service. Comment below sharing one thought about how this perspective might help you approach your upcoming FTA webinar, especially concerning your feelings about attendance numbers 🙏🏼
Good point to keep it going! I especially like the idea it is in service to future participants, to keep practicing in the beginning.
Sometimes i've also run empty or 1-2 person sessions, and recorded them anyway. I tell myself - "you can't quit today. You might quit tomorrow but not today". And then when tomorrow comes i tend to see it in a bigger perspective.
The most difficult for me is to host Q&A sessions where participants are expected to provide all the questions and i. just show up to answer. I tend to prepare, and bring a handful of prewritten questions, sometimes just reiterations of old ones, that can do with being answered again in the light of new experiences.
For my upcoming FTA webinar, i'm preparing a more structured / lecture-based format so it can run even with very few live participants.
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Very good insight! I have been running minicourses inside my membership program several times over the years and people enjoyed it, just never got to build the bridge to doing it as public minicourses that lead into the membership program.
To me it makes sense to offer the minicourses as low-priced stand alone courses, and for those who purchase can have get the purchase price as a discount when joining the membership.
what do you think, is that an authentic and connected way to do it?
@Tue Olesen Yes! There are quite a few memberships I've seen over the years that do this. Public price vs Membership discounted price, for courses. However, I think for growing the membership, it's probably better just to say join the membership and get the course (and other courses) for "free".
@George Kao Super cool. Plans for getting that realised have already started to form over this evening sunset bike ride. Seems absolutely doable and integrates nice with market discovery as one of the initial starting points.
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Warm welcome to the Course Creator's Journey!
This is a co-learning experience... so what strengths and energy would you like to bring to this community? What do you look forward to receiving? Comment below :)
Energy: Learning from experiments, focusing on what i can control and encouraging myself to take action
My area: I train sea kayaking, sharing knowledge and skills that enable kayakers to enjoy their time on the water.
Oh, and hi @Mats Törnvall 👋😀
Thank you for sharing the workflow - smooth!
Have you found a way to make Zoom record in a higher resolution than 640 x 360 ? Especially when sharing content it might be useful (although the small resolution has the benefit of reduced file sizes)
@Tue Olesen you're right! I never paid attention to my zoom recording resolutions because, well, I don't need students looking at my face pores 🫣🤣
But I have been asked this over the years and never really looked into it yet... but gratefully now, google Ai seems to know the answer. Let me know if you have tried those solutions?
@George Kao Have tried some of them, but it doesn't give me consistent results - sometimes videos come out as decent/high resolution, sometimes lower. Thanks for the link - i will keep experimenting!