EMBODIED ANSWERS AND VISUAL EXPRESSION FOR INSIGHT AND ALIGNMENT

This workshop taps into embodied knowledge and spontaneous visual expression to reveal information about our gifts, what we value, and what keeps us from living in alignment with what we value. The work circumvents the dominant prefrontal cortex by questioning the body’s knowledge, listening to its response, and moving directly into spontaneous visual expression. Ultimately, it relieves the body of holding on to hidden truths, illuminates powerful information, and moves that information outside of the body where it can be seen and understood.

When we make a decision in alignment with our values, we feel flow, alignment with life.

When we make a decision out of alignment, we feel stuck, frustrated, angry, sad, anxious. (Embodied dissonance)

4 1/2 hrs with 3 short breaks. $60-80 per person, pay what you can. Four person minimum. Materials provided.

FROM THEORY TO 3D

Professionals, students, homeowners, and organizations often have ideas or theorize about the spaces they want to create. Yet, too often they leapfrog over the act of visually and sensorily translating their ideas. How will those ideas will successfully manifest in in color, texture, line, form, material and over time in three and four dimensionally actualized spaces?

Through readings, sense memory, sensory exploration, directed visual expression, conversations with the body, this series of classes helps those creating physical spaces—such as architects, landscape architects, municipalities, organizations in the act of building physical spaces—successfully deploy their ideas in three and four dimensional space. The work will be applied to actual or theoretical projects.

A series of 4 to 10, 50 minute classes with light homework: readings and journaling. Price to be determined based on number of classes. 4 person minimum.

This can also be offered as a 4 1/2 hour workshop for professionals. The workshop is $60-80 per person, pay what you can. 4 person minimum. Please bring a large drawing and writing notepad, drawing and writing implements, and your proposed project. Some pre-work—reading and material exploration and collection—will be required.

*This class has been taught to undergraduate and graduate design students at the University of Washington over the course of a 10 week quarter.