Creativity & Navigating Uncertainty
A 6 month practice-based deep-dive, for re-wilding your creative spirit.
6 months of experience-based learning and creative experiments, exploring how we can integrate The Creative Principle into all elements of our living in order to grow more robustness & capacity with uncertainty.
"You cannot use up creativity.
The more you use it, the more you have".
- Maya Angelou
16 x live workshops, including sessions with visiting professional artists, practice weeks, Creative Practice gatherings, optional Maker's Exchange drop ins, Creative Ally support teams, support to develop your own creative habit - and more...
*Please note that dates/themes of sessions are subject to change
What it's All About Really...?
Welcome Video and Orientation
Lesson 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 Lesson 1 Session
Body Listening for Creative Practice
First Creative Ally meet up.
Lesson 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 Lesson 2 Session
Beginning a Habit Breaking Habit Practice - daily practice
Intro to Lesson 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 - Lesson 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 Lesson 4
Taking your wonder for a wander - Live Zoom class
Recording of Lesson 4 Session
Photographing what pleases, intrigues or fascinates you
Creative Practice Room - on Zoom
Break Week - No material this week
Lesson 5 - Pre-session reflection - identifying sources and lineages
Lesson 5 - Pre- session Exploration - Opening to the Ordinary & Non Ordinary World
Lesson 5 - Intro - genies Guides & Muses
Genies, Muses & the More than human world - Live Zoom Session
Recording of Lesson 5 session
Lesson 5 - Home enquiry - Being another 'I'
Creative Practice Room - on Zoom
Intro to Lesson 6 with Guest Artist
Lesson 6 - Pre work for Live Session with Guest Artist
Lesson 6 - What An Artist Knows - Live Zoom Session with Guest Artist
Recording of Lesson 6 Session
Lesson 6 - Home Enquiry - Take Your Wonder for a Wander Date
Welcome to your first Practice Week
Extra Zoom Call to set up / clarify the Practice Week Invitation
Recording of Zoom session
Creative Practice Room - on Zoom
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
Christmas & New Years Break - No material these weeks
Lesson 8 - Navigating Obstacles & Road Blocks - Intro
Intro video 2 - Lesson 8 Navigating Obstacles & Road Blocks
Lesson 8 - pre session exploration... Taking a line for a walk
Navigating Obstacles and Road Blocks - Live Zoom session
Recording of Lesson 8 session - Navigating Obstacles and Road Blocks
Creative Practice Room - on Zoom
Lesson 8 - Home Practice Experiment - Cultivating Curiosity for What is in your way at the moment
Lesson 9 - Pre-session exploration
Lesson 9 - Intro Video
Lesson 9 - What an Artist Knows - Live Zoom session with Guest Artist
Recording of Lesson 9 session
Lesson 9 Home Practice Experiment
Lesson 10 Overview video
Lesson 10 - Pre-Session Exploration - A Story Experiment.
Lesson 10 - Intro to the 2nd Practice Experiment
Practice Experiment - Considering Your Audience & the flow of story
Extra Zoom Call to set up / clarify the Practice Week Invitation
Recording of Zoom Session
Creative Practice Room - on Zoom
Break Week - No material this week
Lesson 11 Pre Session Exploration
Lesson 11 Intro - Problems, Irritants & Injustices
Problems, Irritants, Inequalities and Injustices - Creation as transformative medicine - Live Zoom Session
Recording of Lesson 11 session
Home Enquiry for Lesson 11
Creative Practice Room - on Zoom
Intro to Lesson 12 - Guest Artist & pre session reflection
The Power of Play - Pre-session reflection
Lesson 12 - What An Artist Knows, with Guest Artist - Live Zoom Session
Lesson 12 - Recording of the Live session
Lesson 12 - Home Enquiry
Lesson 13 - Practice week intro
Practice Week - OPTION 1 - Discipline, Editing and Refinement - Honouring your Audience
Practice Week - OPTION 2 - Honouring Endings
Extra Zoom Call to set up / clarify the Practice Week Invitation
Recording of Zoom Session
Creative Practice Room - on Zoom
Life Application Intro - prep for next week.
Break Week - No material this week
Intro for Lesson 14 - Being on a Workable Edge
Being on a workable edge - Live Zoom class
Recording of the Live Class - Lesson 14 Session
Extra Date with the Artist - Brooke McNamara - prep
Being on a Useful Edge - with Brooke McNamara (Pre-Recorded Session)
Home enquiry
Creative Practice Room - on Zoom
Lesson 15. Introduction - Co-creating what is already becoming
Alchemy - Your Life as Raw Material - Live Zoom Session
Recording of Lesson 15 session
Creative Practice Room - on Zoom
Break Week - No material this week
Personal Practice Space 1
Personal Practice Space 2
Personal Practice Space 3
Personal Practice Space 4
Intro to Lesson 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 Lesson 16 session
Reflection Survey
'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
The short answer is 'what you put into it'... but the long answer is:
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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
Time, Money and Process...
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