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:
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.
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…
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.