Postponing to live
Love-letter from November 2022 Were you ready this time around when the snow covered the land and we got from autumn into winter...
Rein Lemberpuu
- Oct 26
- 8 min
Hunting confusion
Love-letter from October 2022 Every autumn I feel that the rat-race is starting all over again after a rather slow summer. Now all nice...
Rein Lemberpuu
- Sep 28
- 9 min
Resisting Life
Love-letter from September 2022 September has been quite a busy month for me and as an act of survival, I had to become more fluid and...
Rein Lemberpuu
- Aug 29
- 7 min
The World Description
Love-letter from August 2022 Our team has quite a big desire to learn about the mysteries of the world and hence the need to explore all...
Rein Lemberpuu
- Jun 27
- 6 min
A love letter from June 2022 - Sleeping or not, here I come!
I have been pondering lately why people are not interested in solving the most amazing mystery we are witnessing daily - who are we? For...
Rein Lemberpuu
- May 30
- 7 min
May 2022 love letter: Do you want power?
I decided to rename the “Newsletter” to be “Love-letter” instead, for the simple reason that there is no new(s) in my writings. I am...
Rein Lemberpuu
- Apr 27
- 8 min
The problem with Time
Last weekend I was reviewing where I am in terms of different areas of my life. I have created for myself a simple model of 10 areas:...
Rein Lemberpuu
- Mar 31
- 8 min
Harmony vs conflict
Lately, I am having on average 8 mentoring sessions per week which make about half a thousand sessions per last year. I was pondering on...
Rein Lemberpuu
- Feb 28
- 5 min
Friendship or what?
This month I really felt I wanted to focus on something positive and since February presented us with Valentine's Day which in Estonia is...
Rein Lemberpuu
- Jan 28
- 8 min
Let’s make dreams practical!
Hopefully, you have dreams, and each year is asking us if we are up to materializing some this year or not? Depending on your preferences...
Rein Lemberpuu
- Dec 28, 2021
- 7 min
Negative Self-image vs Self-image Negative
Getting clarity on Negative Self-image vs Self-image Negative
Rein Lemberpuu
- Dec 13, 2021
- 9 min
November newsletter: Self-image and its negative
We just finished yet another powerful masterclass - Threshold to Excellence. This is one of my favorites as it goes into discovering the...
Rein Lemberpuu
- Oct 18, 2021
- 7 min
October newsletter: Do we have a choice?
If you do not have enough personal power then you will not be able to make the decision, to pick the choice.
Rein Lemberpuu
- Sep 19, 2021
- 5 min
September newsletter: Messages from the Unknown
I am very interested to find out what new we are supposed to learn in the school of Life this time around. What is the new bringing us?
Rein Lemberpuu
- Aug 16, 2021
- 6 min
August newsletter: Mirror, mirror on the wall...
I am checking the weather forecast for August and it seems that the summer is over. At least the summer we all got used to already. It is...
Rein Lemberpuu
- Jul 15, 2021
- 5 min
July newsletter: Pause - a challenge or a way to keep balance?
July has brought everything to pause, at least in Estonia. Weather is more tropical than nordic, averaging around 32 degrees. For...
Riin Lisett
- Jul 6, 2021
- 2 min
.Cocoon Podcast #4 - Aleksander Tõnnisson - Trusting the Life
Aleksander Tõnnisson is a mentor and public speaker who shared his know-how about making decisions that include listening to feelings.
Rein Lemberpuu
- Jun 15, 2021
- 5 min
June newsletter: Change is the new norm
The month of June has smoothly blended in from May and while working with imbalance we are now up against new decisions on how to steer our
Riin Lisett
- Jun 1, 2021
- 1 min
.Cocoon Podcast #2 - Hristo Neiland - From sportsmanship to entrepreneurship
Listen to a podcast with Hristo Neiland, the COO of .Cocoon Program!
Riin Lisett
- May 25, 2021
- 2 min
Watch the .Cocoon Cofounders Synergy Workshop
The best time to work on founders' relationships is when all is going well; the second-best - before it's too late.
Riin Lisett
- May 13, 2021
- 1 min
TechChill: 250 000 € investment and a year of self-development
.Cocoon Ventures is one of the investors for TechChill startup pitching competition
Rein Lemberpuu
- May 6, 2021
- 6 min
May newsletter: Response to imbalance
This time around a newsletter has a different spin as we are looking for new ways to respond to our friends and family in the current...
Riin Lisett
- Apr 30, 2021
- 1 min
How Cocoon supports founders personal and business growth - interview with CEO Ansis Lipenitis
In this video, Anu Martinson and Ansis Farhad Lipenitis talk about how personal and business growth are related and discuss growth...
Ansis Lipenitis
- Apr 30, 2021
- 6 min
How to use furious emotions as a Jedi master with co-founders and other people (a personal story)
Anger and fear can hijack you so intensely that you no longer control them. Instead, they run you. Read about my experience in resolving it
Ansis Lipenitis
- Apr 6, 2021
- 10 min
How to build great cofounders' relationships starting from yourself
A great relationship between the cofounders' ensures personal wellbeing and higher odds of success. This essay explores how to ensure it.
Ansis Lipenitis
- Apr 5, 2021
- 6 min
Finding your purpose as an entrepreneur, part I
The essay is for entrepreneurs who have perceived the occasional feeling of emptiness in their work, anxiety about the meaning of business.
Riin Lisett
- Mar 23, 2021
- 4 min
The Home Office Syndrome
Everything in this life is a relationship. We have a relationship with our spouse, with our kids, pets, with the flowers and plants at...
Riin Lisett
- Mar 17, 2021
- 2 min
Accountability Group participants finished their 8-week commitment
It is easy to start a new habit but the difficult part is keeping the habit.
Riin Lisett
- Mar 9, 2021
- 6 min
How ending a startup leads to a business of self-discovery - Interview with Ansis Farhad Lipenitis
Interview with Ansis Farhad Lipenitis, previous co-founder of a startup Motivio and now the CEO of .Cocoon Program.
Riin Lisett
- Jan 18, 2021
- 2 min
.Medoonity offers over 100 workshops to children aged 9-14
.Medoonity is a new type of hobby school for children aged 9-14 in Tartu, where they can learn new skills in a playful way.
Riin Lisett
- Dec 3, 2020
- 3 min
The universe supports action!
.Cocoon Founders Psychology Mentoring Event took place on 25-26 November online together with 30 people.
Rein Lemberpuu
- Oct 14, 2020
- 7 min
Rein Lemberpuu: Want to solve your challenges? First, challenge your understanding of challenge
If we dig deeper we start to understand that most things we see as challenges are merely consequences of something else.
Riin Lisett
- Sep 25, 2020
- 2 min
The new .Cocoon Ventures invests in founders interested in self-development
The change in the investment strategy came from the growth we have seen the founders go through in .Cocoon mentoring program.
Riin Lisett
- Sep 21, 2020
- 2 min
.Cocoon Assessments help teams discover the way to their full potential
.Cocoon Assessments combine the personal, psychological, and business aspects of the leadership team and the company.
Rein Lemberpuu
- Jun 25, 2020
- 6 min
Rein Lemberpuu @TechChill – “31 Investments, 6 Burnouts: The Pressure Cooker Effect”
When you fail, this means the actions you chose did not get you to the desired result.
Riin Lisett
- Jun 2, 2020
- 1 min
Founder’s Mentoring Group began!
The founders and mentors gather after every 3 weeks online to talk about challenges, get new perspectives and find solutions.
Riin Lisett
- May 15, 2020
- 3 min
.Cocoon participants tackled movie making as a way of self-development
The first online .Cocoon Founders Mentoring Event took place on May 14-15.
Rein Lemberpuu
- Feb 6, 2020
- 5 min
Rein Lemberpuu, CEO of .Cocoon: “Mentoring and coaching are dead?"
We are in a situation where the word mentor and mentoring have been used to describe a variety of things and there is no clarity.
Riin Lisett
- Oct 8, 2019
- 4 min
The best thoughts from the business psychology conference sTARTUp Psychology
On the 30th of September, sTARTUp Day’s official side event sTARTUp Psychology took place for the first time.
Riin Lisett
- Sep 23, 2019
- 7 min
Marcel Gasser: “My mission is to combine the business and spiritual world”
Marcel Gasser is an entrepreneurial nomad who has had the opportunity to work on many amazing projects all over the world.
Riin Lisett
- Aug 18, 2019
- 2 min
.Cocoon participants learned about intelligent co-operation!
Managing relationships takes skill and practice. Intelligent co-operation is one of the key factors of success.
Riin Lisett
- May 28, 2019
- 2 min
Founders found out about their behavioural patterns (Mentoring Event 13-14 May)
On 13th to 14th of May Contriber organized .Cocoon Mentoring Event for startup founders. On Monday group of 30 people combined with...
Riin Lisett
- May 27, 2019
- 2 min
.Cocoon focuses on founders' personal development
Cocoon’s innovative and unique approach focuses on founders’ personal development instead of a company. By changing the attitude of a...
Riin Lisett
- May 27, 2019
- 7 min
Harald Lepisk's interview with Rein Lemberpuu
They talked about startup world, founder psychology and how crisis moments are the ones that develop a person the most.