4. You look at where you’re going and where
you are and it never makes sense, but then
you look back at where you’ve been and a
pattern seems to emerge. And if you project
forward from that pattern, then sometimes
you can come up with something.
Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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9. Cultivating passions
• Flow
• is a higher state of consciousness
• requires diverse routes or activities to
step outside of 'normal' daily routines
• is rising above constraining concerns of
the ego such as fear of what others think
• being one with the music and expressing
emotion from austega.com
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10. Play
• Earliest experiences in and around flow
state - what how and who?
• Current experiences in and around flow
state - what, how and who?
• Share back with the group
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12. Recap
• You've hopefully cleared your mind and got
a feel for yourself as a project.
Sunday, 17 July 2011
13. Recap
• You've hopefully cleared your mind and got
a feel for yourself as a project.
• You've identified people and projects that
exist to support you in flow state
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14. Recap
• You've hopefully cleared your mind and got
a feel for yourself as a project.
• You've identified people and projects that
exist to support you in flow state
• How you choose to work, play and learn
with the people and passions
identifiedrequires commitment
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15. Session 3
Playing with Project you
• Aim of session is to create a playful
framework that can guide your creative
development
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16. PROJECT YOU
Spiritual, ethical
and moral
Imagination
Experiential
Material
Cultural
Conditioning
Me
From Geoff Crook, Central Saint Martin’s
School of Art and Design
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17. Play
• Sketch out your own project me
• Give your project a name
• Stick it up on the wall
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19. Personal Levels
• identify passions that need to be:
• initiated
• nurtured
• parked
• closed
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20. Timing?
• What levels can be achieved quickly?
• What skills and challenges do you need to
spread out?
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21. Self-improvement and
continuous achievements
• What rewards will you give yourself for
completing levels?
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22. Summary & onwards
• Yourself as a whole project containing your
passions
• Playing games induces flow
• Levels are useful metaphor for short,
medium and long term plans
• Freeranging is living adventures in work,
play and learning
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