Welkom! Welcome!
Het is weer lente! Alles begint weer te bloeien, niet zo lang geleden lag alles onder een diepe laag sneeuw en ijs lag. We vroegen ons allemaal af of de elfstedentocht wel door zou gaan.
Wil je een bijdrage leveren aan de site? Graag! Wil je in het Nederlands schrijven? Dat kan absoluut! Wil je meedoen aan een workshop? Workshops zijn in het Nederlands.
We zien je graag bij een van de workshops, of hier op de site.
Anne
Nog even en dan is het zo ver. De volgende Kaleidoscope workshop gaat van start. Weer een nieuw avontuur! Dit keer samen met Ruud Heijenga – ik bewonder zijn bevlogenheid en enthousiasme. Volgende week samen aan tafel om het programma tot in de puntjes uit te werken, en dan wordt het ‘vliegen’. Vliegen met je fantasie in beelden en verhalen, in de passie dat Ruud meeneemt. Ik voeg er wat voeten in de aarde bij, en een scheutje kennis – zo hebben we allemaal wel wat. Iets dat ons kan boeien en inspireren, nieuwe inzichten kan brengen en ideeën opdoen.
De 8 Insights types:
Zij zijn allen in de beelden en verhalen vertegenwoordigd. Wat een feest!
I am getting ready for next week’s workshop. It’s a hot topic: the Power of Introversion.
Like many introverts I get tired of an encroaching world, where working on your own is frowned upon, and spending the evening with headphones on and a good book is regarded as a little bit sad. I feel like shouting from the rooftops and telling everyone that I work better on my own, and that my idea of a good time is precisely reading a good book with headphones on. But I doubt whether extraverts would believe me, and anyway introverts already know, so I suppose, perhaps erroneously, that it would be a waste of time and effort. Yet someone is shouting from the rooftops – quietly. Susan Cain’s book “Quiet” has been an instant success, and her TED video has been viewed thousands of times. Those of us who have direct experience recognise what she says instantly, and have found a voice.
One of the most meaningful things to me that Susan speaks about is creativity.
In the Insights model creativity is placed with Sunshine Yellow – which I associate with playfulness at best and chaos at worst. For me creativity lies in the introverted colours, Kewl Blue in particular. It is in reflection that the brainwaves come, the enlightenment and the breakthroughs. It comes from consistent and often solitary experimentation, tweaking each time until the new creation can stand alone, on its own two feet and face the world fearlessly.
At school once I learned that we cannot create: all we do is transform. We are alchemists all, but few realise. Personal transformation comes from the inside, and following through on one’s convictions. Equally so the transformation of matter into things that are useful. For me, that is the alchemy of creativity.
Every creative person is a duality or a synthesis of contradictory qualities. On the one side he is a human being with a personal life, while on the other he is an impersonal creative process. CG Jung, Psychology and Literature, para 157
Now isn’t that something..?
I started out writing in Dutch this morning, but gave up. Dutch is so much better at expressing some things, but writing, even after so many years, is still a challenge. And this morning I don’t want to try too hard.
I want to sit back for a moment and en-joy! Life is so full of little miracles, doors that open unexpectedly, and others that we hoped would stay open suddenly close.
One little miracle I want to celebrate today is that the workshop on 23 March is (almost) full. Still room for a couple more should there be last minute bookings. This is our first ‘big’ event, I hope there will be many more. Thanks also to Ernst.