‘Be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given to you because you have not been able to live them. …live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer.’ (Rainer Maria Rilke)
This taster workshop introduces our Living the Question approach – a collaborative reflective practice for researchers, creatives, leaders, academics, coaches, and clinicians who want to explore new ways of engaging with ‘not knowing’.
In this taster workshop we present our collaborative reflective practice approach and share how it can help people do their best thinking together. We believe that, as the world is changing with such speed and complexity – challenging conventional approaches – our response must be unconventional.
During the session you will experience our creative approach that blends image-making, poetry, and storytelling with rich dialogue. The aim of ‘Living the Question’ is to creatively respond to uncertainty and change through a process of imaginative reflection and collaborative dialogue. Rather than resorting to ingrained habits, fixed mindsets and unhelpful defences when navigating the unknown, we offer ways to access your intuitive wisdom, so you emerge with fresh insights, new perspectives, and empowering possibilities. ‘Living the Question’ is not so much a method, but a practice for creative living through engaging with your intuition, imagination, and the ultimate unknown – the unconscious – to transform your response to the complex world in which we live.
What you will learn:
· An overview of our Living the Question approach
· How to set clear intentions to elevate and sustain your energy
· How to create generative questions
· Creative and imaginative ways to access your intuitive wisdom
· The opportunity for dialogue and reflection with a diverse group
Who is it for:
· Anyone who is feeling stuck, blocked, lost or stale in their practice.
· Creatives, academics, and researchers who are working on or initiating a project.
· Leaders who are navigating change and complexity.
· Clinicians and coaches who want to reflect on their client work.
· Anyone seeking to change old habits and practice creative living.