Holding Space For Creative Emergence

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Where I’m coming from …

For many years I was a career creative strategist deep in “Game A” players like MTV, Sony Music and Facebook.

My specialty was brailing the zeitgeist and decoding its signals. I mined for insights that helped stimulate sharper creative development of everything from TV shows, to brands, to digital products and platforms.

From reality tv to reality itself …

Slowly I began to sense some distant thunder, a step-change, a state-change energy that seems to be moving through culture in great waves of complexity and disruption.

Companies, organizations, and even individuals, it seemed to me, would need to evolve — to reimagine themselves to the core — in order to meet & ride the new long wave — and not get washed away by it.

De-education & re-educated

I moved away from the world of cubicles and trained in approaches tailored to unlocking new levels of collective insight and creativity — approaches uniquely suited to surfacing the scope of creativity needed for these transitional times.

Some of the techniques I absorbed and cross-fertilized include Collective Presencing, Emergent Dialogue, Next Level Facilitation, Theory U’s Generative Listening Lab, Emergent Leadership Program; Psychodrama and Psychosculpture, Evolutionary Collective practice, Psycho-Spiritual Integration, and Sensemaking.

In essence I began with my own private paradigm shift, working with new modes of perceiving and sensemaking directly from creative emergence itself.

What’s mine to do?

So I find myself, at this remarkable time in history, rooting ever-more deeply into this “sensing-directly-into-and-working-with-and-from-creative-emergence thing” ….

My projects and services focus, in one form or another, on holding space for and helping to midwife the wild raw new creativity that is trying to volcano through the crust of the present, carrying hints and glimpses of new blueprints from the ever-emergent field of the future.

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