Les 1
How Your Life Benefits from Flow and Creativity
People like athletes, artists and musicians who regularly enter and access a flow state develop positive traits like high-self esteem, and psychological well-being. Waking up our creativity is connecting to our natural ability to engage, innovate and improvise joyfully with life's challenges.
Les 2
Overcoming Obstacles in Online Learning
We are invested in your success! To ensure your success in this course, we've outlined 3 common obstacles to starting and finishing a course and their proposed solutions.
Les 3
The 4 Key Indicators of a Flow State
This lesson is all about the four key indicators that we can learn to recognize, and even design for, that let us know we are beginning to arrive and enter deeper into a flow state. They are Selflessness, Timelessness, Ease, and Richness.
Les 4
Balancing Stress, Apathy, Challenge and Skill
Are there areas in your life that you've become bored with and lost interest in? Is there something new you have wanted to learn, but have become overwhelmed, frustrated and feel like quitting. Maybe you haven't even bothered to try because it's so overhelming. Let's learn about the Flow Channel, getting in the flow, and staying in the flow.
Les 5
The Art of Following 2D (Spatial Intelligence)
In today's exploration, you are going to begin developing the Art of Following with pen and paper while engaging your spatial intelligence. Imagine my dog at the offleash park, free to run, sniff, hunt, chase, wander, play, free to explore and follow her nature. Your challenge is to follow an unbroken line for 3 mins.
Les 6
The Art of Following 3D (Body-Kinesthetic Intelligence)
Today we dive into another challenge and grow our skill this time expanding from a two dimensional to a three dimensional plane and let our body kinesthetic or body smarts lead the way.
Les 7
The Art of Following the Mind (Linguistic Intelligence)
The mind and intellect have an amazing capacity to label, dissect, de-lineate, hypothesize, unpack, compare, sift, sort categorize, and organize information. During this process, we may find ourselves stumbling upon the joy of making creative unexpected associations. We'll explore all of this in today's flow and creativity challenge.
Les 8
The Art of Following the Heart (Musical Intelligence)
We are innately musical creatures, and we all have a musical aptitude that may or may not have been supported when we were younger. Our musical intelligence is so much more thanour ability to play chords, scales, sing on pitch or some idea of playing properly. We continue our flow explorations by weaving the heart's intelligence with the language of sound.
Les 9
The Triple Weave - Body, Heart, Mind
Today, we are going to take everything that we've been exploring and weave it all together. A triple weave of body, heart and mind, movement, sounds and wordplay. Priming and exploring our creative flow as a blending of body-kinesthetic, linguistic, musical and spatial intelligences.
Les 10
The First Five Exercises - Priming for A Creative Embodied Flow State
This lesson contains all of the first 5 explorations in one sequence. It primes your experiential understanding and your whole body and brain to enter into a flow state. Once you get familiar with the concept of this sequence, and why it gets us into the flow, you can use it as a launching place, or to develop your own sequences.
Les 11
Connect the Dot Energy - Creative Associations
Today we explore another flow and creativity game that features exploring the aliveness of connect the dot energy and the power of our creative associations. With the right levels of skill and challenge this game demonstrates how our awareness is drawn forth unto the very edge of this moment.
Les 12
The Embodied Braindump
We can become overwhelmed with the number of emotions and thoughts we are feeling on any given number of topics. The embodied brain dump is a practice that helps us to process and clear the incoherency and entanglement and creates space for more coherent feelings and emotions.
Les 13
So what, now what?
In the final lesson, we are going to reflect on the intention for why and whom this course was written for and how we can expect and imagine moving forward from here on in. You'll get a special opportunity to help come up with and share your own conclusions.