This document outlines a seminar on creativity and problem solving held in South Africa from April 13-16, 2014. The seminar, called "The Gordian Egg: Self Directing 3.3," is focused on optimal performance within a greater mindset. It is the third part of a series that also includes "Sentry & Lamppost" on using one's story as a mind frame, and "The Dance of the Hero" on enlarging one's mind frame. The seminar uses stories, performances, and examples to help participants direct their own life adventures from questioning to answering. It aims to help people get out of their boxes and find new ways by daring to get lost.

1. THE GORDIAN EGG:
SELF DIRECTING 3.3
Mtiririko – Creativity & Problem Solving Seminar
Phutadithjaba, South Africa
April 13 – 16, 2014
Marcel van der Pol, Keridwen
www.keridwen.nl – www.thedanceofthehero.com – marcel@keridwen.nl
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2. You are a professional!?
“So you have to know what to
do. If you don’t know what to
do you have to find out. If you
can’t find out you (…) make it
up and then make it so.
(China Miéville, author)

3. There are
So Many Ways
to Kill
a Good Idea!

4. Self Directing 3.3
- It’s your community, it’s your life
3.1 Sentry & Lamppost
- Your Story as Mind Frame
3.2 The Dance of the hero
- Enlarging your Mind Frame
3.3 The Gordian Egg
- Optimal Performance in a
Greater Mind Frame

5. LamppostSentry
Self Directing 3.1: Sentry & Lamppost
Your Story as Mind Frame

6. Sentry & Lamppost
4levelsinStorytelling: Story<>RealLife
• Relaxation
• Just Fun, no Rules
• Pedagogic
• Culture, Group, Organisation
• Self Directing
• Second Chance, Change, Healing
• Magic
• Source, Flow, Empowerment
According to the
Navaho Indians

7. • Open Stories
• Liquefying
work to be done!
• Freezing >> Solidifying
• Closing down
• Open Stories
According to
Keridwen
Sentry & Lamppost
PeopleCreateTheirOwnRealitybyTellingTheir Stories

8. Saint vs. Outlaw
How will they tell their separate stories?

9. HelperDragon
Self Directing 3.2: The Dance of the Hero
Enlarging Your Mind Frame

10. The Damce
of t
• Mtiririko – Flow & Commitment
• Creativity & Innovation
• Changing Perpsectives
• Shifting Paradigms
• The Living Story
Get out of your box!

11. This Story of Faces

12. Excluding
Mind Frames

13. Children & Rain
Grown ups
& Rain
Differences in Mind Frames

14. •Innocent
•Orphan
•Wanderer
•Lover
•Caregiver
•Warrior
•Builder
•Cleaner
•Magician
•Ruler
•Sage
•Fool
12 Hero(in)es =
12 Mind Frames
The Damce
of t
The Dance of the Hero

15. Josephcampbell&MarcelvanderPol
Home
Departure
(leaving/aiming)
Context
Dragon & Treasure
Call (who/what)
Sentry (stop!)
Traveling Companions?
(friend/foe)
Encounters
Events
Developments
Helper (stijl)
Arrival (change?)
•Basic Movements in Stories

16. Even Little Red Riding Hood knows her Heroes...
...and she knows her Life Questions, too...
•Innocent
•Orphan
•Wanderer
•Lover
•Caregiver
•Warrior
•Builder
•Cleaner
•Magician
•Ruler
•Sage
•Fool

17. The Gordian Egg: Self Directing 3.3
- He/She who dares to get lost, takes the risk of finding new ways -
Direct Your Own Life Adventures:
from ‘Question’ to ‘Answer’

18. Actor(s)Audience
Self Directing 3.3: The Gordian Egg
Optimal Performance in a Greater Mind Frame

19. “The Arrow in the Bull’s Eye”

20. “South African Playground”
The Difference between Dawn and Dusk

21. “Hold on to the Wind…!”
He/She who dares to get lost, takes the risk of finding new ways

22. The Chimney Paradox
Storytelling: Source of Innovation and Creativity
• Out of Your Box
• Wisdom
• Logic
• Facts
Chassidic Creative
Problem Solving

23. THE GORDIAN EGG:
SELF DIRECTING 3.3
Extra – Stories/Performances
Marcel van der Pol, Keridwen
www.keridwen.nl – www.thedanceofthehero.com – marcel@keridwen.nl

25. Is This the Other Side?

26. This King
needs his
Dragon!*)
*) Every King Deserves a Dragon to Conquer, isn’t it?

27. Always look into the Right Directon…

28. Australopitecus afarensis
•A few small steps of men, but a giant leap…
•What’s the Story? How does it go on?

29. Homo heidelbergensis
•Community Care – What’s the Story?
•Imagination, Communication & Cooperation

30. The young Turkey
•Personal Development – What’s the Story?
•Deep Democracy: Respecting Differences

31. THE GORDIAN EGG:
SELF DIRECTING 3.3
Want to know more?
Marcel van der Pol, Keridwen
Self Directing 3.3 =
Sentry & Lamppost – The Dance of the Hero – The Gordian Egg
www.keridwen.nl – www.thedanceofthehero.com – marcel@keridwen.nl