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Unlock your creative potential with Mick Timpson: Embrace spontaneous creativity in 2024!

Mick Timpson, architect, artist, author and founder of beanddo™ invites you into the world of spontaneous creativity.

New for 2024 Mick will be hosting a range of very special Modern Meditation based workshops that will help you open to inspiration, creativity, growth and change.

The primary goal?

Shifting the focus from rigid outcomes and expectations to the delightful realm of process, creative play, and non-judgmental self-observation. The aim is to introduce techniques and mindsets that countless artists, authors and designers have harnessed to transform their work and lives.

In these dynamic flow drawing and writing workshops, you’ll receive the support and tools you need to:

* Uncover a creative voice that’s uniquely yours.

* Tune into your intuitive perception, sidelining the mind’s self-critique. 

* Follow your energy, embracing what feels right rather than what seems conventional.

* Conquer creative blocks, fear of failure, or self-doubt by uncovering their hidden messages.

* Realize your creative actions as intelligent expressions, opening doors to deeper insights.

* Embark on a transformative journey with process painting as a genuine path to conscious awakening.

Don’t miss out on this extraordinary opportunity to awaken your inner artist and transform your creative journey. Join Mick Timpson in 2024 and let your creativity flow. 

Next creative workshops at Ananda Barn, Chilcompton:

Awaken Your Inner Artist:

THE ART of FLOW with MICK TIMPSON

9.30am – 1.00pm

Date: 8 June 2024

Cost: £55.00 (limited to 10 participants)

Venue: Ananda Barn, Chilcompton

To book your place, click on the email link below, and we will contact you with payment details:

info@beanddo.co.uk

Creativity is a three-part process which can be enhanced and explored. 

 

Visit Mick in his workshop as he talks about his experience of using and enhancing creativity as a skill. 

What’s the link between meditation and creativity?

Meditation is not something you do but something you are. So the only skill you will ever need in meditation is the ability to shift your perspective. This means that whether you are aware of it or not, awareness is happening now. It just is, constantly. Awareness is your essence, your source, underneath all your experiences, thoughts, feelings and actions. When, through these workshop techniques you combine these new insights with specialised active exercises you will discover:

  1. A profound personal empowerment, born from immersing oneself fully in the present moment. 

  2. An embracing engaged flowing wholeness, cultivating qualities of equanimity and the art of remaining present amid any situation.

  3. Letting go of the need for control and meticulous planning. Instead, attune yourself to your intuition, trusting that you possess all you need to meet the demands of the moment. 

  4. Learn to confront doubt, silence the inner critic, and forge ahead with unwavering courage.

  5.  Embrace vulnerability and the unknown; they are the gateways to breakthroughs, moments of joy, and deep insights.

These workshops offer more than a creative experience; it’s a new evolution of awakened living.

Discover a centered yet expansive outlook on life through active meditation within our tasks and exercises. These practices become tools you can apply in your daily life, transforming every circumstance and experience into opportunities rather than challenges.

Join us and let your creativity transform your world.

In these workshops, you will explore and utilise the same meditation based creative flow techniques Mick has developed over his career as an architect, author and artist. Here are some examples of Mick’s current adventures in creative flow… 

See more of Mick's active meditation paintings here...

Workshop details:

How the process works:

Practices and exercises

All meditations will be undertaken on chairs arranged in a circle if possible

  • There will be guided drawing exercise

  • There will be guided writing exercises

  • There will be large scale, collaborative drawing exercises using pens, charcoal, pastels etc. It can get messy, so please bring some wipes. 

What to bring with you

  • Bring a notebook and your favourite pens

  • Bring any mark making materials you might like use or explore with. beanddo will bring long rolls of lining paper for the larger scale work, pastels and charcoal etc…

  • There will sheets of scrap paper available.

  • You will be provided with  copies of all the worksheets. 

  • Make sure you bring a mind that’s open and a body that breathes. 

  • Bring a cushion to support your back or feet if you think you need one.

  • Bring water

  • Wear loose and comfortable clothes

What not to bring with you

  • Expectation 

  • Your inner critic

  • Doubt

  • Fear

Ego etc…Remember, this is all about joy – have fun and get out of your own way and help make the world safe for creativity

The beanddo Modern Meditation teaching uses four powerful interconnecting practises: ATTENTION, AWARENESS, ATTITUDE and ACTION.

The four A’s help you rediscover a deeper state of awareness-shaped perception. The term rediscover: here is important. You have already come hard-wired with these skills. Over the years, you have unconsciously narrowed and distorted these skills from open, free-flowing creative perception to a distorted focus shaped by a lens of habitual thought, feelings and action.

We arrive at a new place in the world where what we do feels meaningful, purposeful, and real. This is where you readily tap into your own sources of creativity, insight, and curiosity. It’s where every action you take has a rightness and authenticity to it. With practice, this new sense of flowing will expand, enabling you to hold space for others, too. This is real leadership.