Early in March, I joined a three day workshop with an incredibly ambitious aim: “Creative Thinking Forum on Creating a Viable Australia”. The event drew some 60-70 people together from around Australia.
I wondered if we were all crazy.
Yet the process, ‘Design Shop’ created and facilitated by Matt Taylor and hosted at The Difference in Sydney was extraordinary and enlightening.
Matt is an irrepressible 70 yr old, with a mind rich with concepts and processes worked out over a lifetime of engagement with creative practices, coming from an architecture background, but now applying his work across many domains.
We might not have created a viable Australia in a single weekend, but what emerged was a very serious attempt to describe the conditions and processes under which such an aim was even imaginable.
What did I learn from the process? Read More
Walk, run, dance, stand on your head, hang a picture; go to a museum, skating rink, climbing wall or a swimming pool. Why? Physical movement literally increases the amount of oxygen to your brain. As often as we ignore this fact, our mind and body are directly, physically and energetically connected. Sensory stimulation, input from the external environment can unlock stale thinking and the prison of logic and make you more alive to the world.Finding the metaphor in the movement can be salutary. Not to be too heady about it, but let the metaphor emerge, watch out for it, notice it: ask the question, “how is this like … my work, my attitude to life.”