Creativity & Navigating Uncertainty
A 16 week practice-based intensive for re-wilding your creative spirit.
16 weeks of experience-based learning, exploring how we can integrate the creative principle into all elements of our living.
“Magic doesn't sweep you away; it gathers you up into the body of the present moment so thoroughly that all your explanations fall away: the ordinary, in all its plain and simple outrageousness, begins to shine -- to become luminously, impossibly so. Every facet of the world is awake, and you within it.” ― David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
"You cannot use up creativity.
The more you use it, the more you have".
- Maya Angelou
Theatre & Feeling Ridiculous | Embodiment & Somatic Re-Education
how do I know if this course is for me?
'The most interesting moment of a person's life is what happens to them when all their certainties go away. Then who do you become? And then what do you look for? That's the moment when the universe is offering up an invitation saying, 'come find me.' - Elizabeth Gilbert
11 x live workshops, sessions with visiting artists, reflection weeks, practice weeks, optional weekly Maker's Exchange drop ins, creative provocations, home enquiries, Creative Ally support teams, community - and more...
*Please note that dates/order of sessions are subject to change*
What it's All About Really...?
Welcome Video and Orientation
Week One: Attention As A Creative Resource
Noticing Where We Are Placing Our Attention - Creative Task - PRE WORK
Focusing tools - Asking the body for creative idea generation - Live Zoom class
Recording of Week 1 Session
Body Listening for Creative Practice
First Creative Ally meet up.
Week 2: Vulnerability and Discomfort
Neurosis Cocktail Party: All The Reasons Why You Can't, Daren't, or Probably Shouldn't - PRE WORK
Creative Ally Meet Ups
Feeling Like An Idiot Practice / Failing at Something that Matters - Live Zoom class
Recording of Week 2 Session
Beginning a Habit Breaking Habit Practice - daily practice
Intro to Week 3 - Video
Different forms of Conscious Attention - Pre session reflections & Writing exercise
Ways In And Down - Not Knowing As Creative Opportunity - Live Zoom Session
Recording of the Live Class - Week 3 Session
Home Enquiry: Go to Sacred Space and use it as a starting point to generate some creative material
Creative Ally Meet Ups
Intro to the Maker's Exchanges
Week 4 - Practice Week set up
Photographing what pleases, intrigues or fascinates you
Practice Week 1 - Creative Ally Suggestions
Intro to Week 5 with Guest Artist
Week 5 - Pre work for Live Session with Guest Artist
Week 5 - What An Artist Knows - Live Zoom Session with Guest Artist
Recording of Week 5 Session
Home Enquiry - Taking Your Wonder For A Wander
Week 5 - Home Enquiry - Take Your Wonder for a Wander Date
About Reflection weeks - What is the invitation & what is the point of these?
Reflection Week 1
Being a Transmitter & Receiver - Set up Video & Introducing Darvish Fakhr
Being a Transmitter and Receiver - Recorded session with Darvish Fakhr - Part 1
Being a Transmitter and Receiver - Recorded session with Darvish Fakhr - Part 2
Home Enquiry: A Giving Less Fucks Practice - Creative Task
Giving Less Fucks Practice - Set up
Week 7 - Pre-session reflection - identifying sources and lineages
Week 7 - Pre- session Exploration - Opening to the Ordinary & Non Ordinary World
Week 7 - Intro - genies Guides & Muses
Genies, Muses & the More than human world - Live Zoom Session
Recording of Week 7 session
Week 7 - Home enquiry - Being another 'I'
Week 8 - Navigating Obstacles & Road Blocks - Intro
Intro video 2 - Week 8 Navigating Obstacles & Road Blocks
Week 8 - pre session exploration... Taking a line for a walk
Navigating Obstacles and Road Blocks - Live Zoom session
Recording of Week 8 session - Navigating Obstacles and Road Blocks
Week 8 - Home Practice Experiment - Cultivating Curiosity for What is in your way at the moment
Week 9 - Pre-session exploration
Week 9 - Intro Video
Week 9 - What an Artist Knows - Live Zoom session with Guest Artist
Recording of Week 9 session
Week 9 Home Practice Experiment
Week 10 Overview video
Week 10 - Pre-Session Exploration - A Story Experiment.
Week 10 - Intro to the 2nd Practice Experiment
Practice Experiment - Considering Your Audience & the flow of story
Intro to Week 11 - Guest Artist & pre session reflection
The Power of Play - Pre-session reflection
Week 11 - What An Artist Knows, with Guest Artist - Live Zoom Session
Week 11 - Recording of the Live session
Week 11 - Home Enquiry
Week 12 Pre Session Exploration
Week 12 Intro - Problems, Irritants & Injustices
Problems, Irritants, Inequalities and Injustices - Creation as transformative medicine - Live Zoom Session
Recording of Week 12 session
Home Enquiry for week 12
Intro for Week 13 - Being on a Workable Edge
Extra Date with the Artist - Brooke McNamara - prep
Being on a Useful Edge - with Brooke McNamara (Pre-Recorded Session)
Home enquiry
Week 14 - Practice week intro
Practice Week - OPTION 1 - Discipline, Editing and Refinement - Honouring your Audience
Practice Week - OPTION 2 - Honouring Endings
Life Application Intro - prep for next week.
Week 15. Introduction - Co-creating what is already becoming
Alchemy - Your Life as Raw Material - Live Zoom Session
Recording of Week 15 session
Intro to week 16 - prep and what to expect
Ritual for Ending And Commitments to Continue - Live Zoom Session
Revisiting our Journey Together - pre-session reflection questions
Recording of Week 16 session
Reflection Survey
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