kreativ FLYT
Opplevelser av å være i kreativ flyt, er gjerne en “dynamisk dans” mellom det å gi slipp på det kjente og det å åpne seg for noe nytt og ukjent. Som tilstands-fenomen kan kreativ flyt karakteriseres ved en grunnleggende parathet til – å følge det som kommer.
I det kreative ligger derfor alltid en viss overgivelse av psykologisk kontroll. Det kan handle om å våge å gå skritt i retninger en aldri har gjort før; å stole på at tilsynelatende irrasjonelle, ulogiske og meningsløse aspekter nettopp rommer muligheten til ny erkjennelse, nye formdannelser og originale løsninger. Dette og er en evne som kan oppøves, nyanseres og skjerpes gjennom oppmerksomhet og regelmessig trening – å oppøve fortrolighet og kapasitet til å ferdes i gradvis større kreativ åpenhet.
Ninni Sødahl, Sky skrift 2006
AESTHETIC KNOWING | a prototype workshop exploring the dialogue between Visual Art, Social Presencing Theater and Awareness Practices as capacities for Sustainable Systems Transformation.
As a general note, after these two days the 15 participants all felt deepened and magnified, more alive. A few of us felt challenged, because more in touch with aspects of human experience we had been somewhat avoiding, or judging.
One month after the Aesthetic Knowing LAB, Agathe notices that this combination of visual, embodied and awareness practices – in service of exploring the nature of individual and collective experience and the emergence of knowing, and applied with care in a safe environment –, has had lasting effects on her felt state of openness. The experience seems to have contributed in intensifying her perception of the aesthetic nature of life, and clarified the path to opening to the unknown and the uneasy.
Anne-Sophie mentions the deep sense of Beauty that lives in her.
Regarding the inherent connection between the individual and the collective nature of human experience, and a pathway to its improvement, after the LAB Julie Musialek, one of the participants, wrote to us, “An aspect of the individual drawing I found very interesting is the capacity to open the dream vision, the capacity to envision what would life call for if this was the best in me, as Ninni asked. I am not familiar with Theory U but, I guess that this is what is at stake as well, on a collective level.”
At this point, more testimonies and feedbacks need to be gathered from the participants to draw a fuller landscape of individual and collective experiences, learnings and potentials that have been emerging from the prototypeLAB.
Deepening this work and interest, by specifically connecting Awareness training, Contemplative Visual art and Social Presencing Theater, has been very inspiring and invites for more writings and further laboratory workshops. One of them will be held in Paris either on July 7-9 or September 8-10, 2023. Stay tuned!