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Tara needed a volunteer for the next part of the evening. Stuart readily agreed to be the subject and joined Tara at the front of the ‘class’.
This exercise is about inner knowing, about the amazing level of resources we have already inside us. It can be used to explore different areas of creative possibility or to deepen your understanding of your creative nature.
Even with activities we have never tried before, we have a vast level of knowledge, which we tend to separate ourselves from. Our ability to connect with this inner knowing, gives us our own model for anything we are wanting to explore.
Tara had Stuart sit comfortably and then asked him to think of three different activities he had never done before. Stuart chose, ‘making popcorn’, ‘juggling’, and building a tall lego tower. He wasn’t sure quite why those had popped into his mind, but it all became clear later why his mind had chosen these activities. Tara asked him to choose three places in the room to ‘do’ these activities in and three ‘experts’ to talk to in these spaces. Having set up the spaces and activities and experts Tara needed Stuart to be in ‘creative’ mode and so helped him to access a ‘peripheral soft focus’ state. This was a masterful demonstration, elegantly performed, without show or overacting. Tara’s meta comments were also quietly respectful of Stuart as he went deeply into state. There are some chairs in our meeting room that squeak when people shuffle their bottoms about. The squeaking subsided until at one point the whole room was wrapt in silence as we joined Stuart in his altered reality. When such a ‘demonstration’ happens there is a powerful opportunity for learning. Some learn by modelling the elegance and skill, some by joining the subject in their trance, some by entering their own ‘stuff’ into the safe space provided by the experience. With Tara’s expert facilitation Stuart explored many aspects of his three chosen activities and discovered how they linked together for him and opened up new creative ways in his life, whilst affirming some formative memories from his past.
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