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The Art of Freeranging
@RockJimford July 2011
Sunday, 17 July 2011
OUTLINE
• SESSION 1 - EMPTY THE CUP 1.30
• SESSION 2 - CULTIVATING PASSIONS 2.00
• SESSION 3 - PLAYING WITH PROJECT YOU 3.00
• WRAP-UP - 4.00
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Session 1EMPTY THE CUP
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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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Session 2Cultivating passions
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Session 2Cultivating passions
• Session aim is to reflect on self and goals by using Czikszentmihayli’s model of experience
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Cultivating passions
from austega.com
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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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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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Recap
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Recap
• You've hopefully cleared your mind and got a feel for yourself as a project.
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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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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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Session 3Playing with Project you
• Aim of session is to create a playful framework that can guide your creative development
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PROJECT YOUSpiritual, ethical
and moral
Imagination
Experiential
Material
CulturalConditioning
MeFrom Geoff Crook, Central Saint Martin’s
School of Art and Design
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Play
• Sketch out your own project me
• Give your project a name
• Stick it up on the wall
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From Jane McGonigall and Will Wright
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Personal Levels
• identify passions that need to be:
• initiated
• nurtured
• parked
• closed
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Timing?
• What levels can be achieved quickly?
• What skills and challenges do you need to spread out?
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Self-improvement and continuous achievements
• What rewards will you give yourself for completing levels?
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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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