9 Wonky Projects

Interspersed with thoughts on Creativity and the Human Condition (featuring a bingo machine)

^{An inquiry into artful intervention}

The pioneering therapist Laura Perls once said that every patient needs their own new form of therapy and artist, writer and speaker Steve Chapman believes the same is true for human creativity and the development of our own unique artful practices. It is with this in mind that this session aims to provide no answers. No tangible take-aways, models or formulae that you can subsequently repeat to achieve some guaranteed results. Instead it invites participants to do the hard work of chewing over what is uniquely helpful for them in order to liberate their own creative freedom.
 
In this unusual, entertaining and interactive session Steve will simply share some stories of bizarre artful social experiments he has undertaken over the last few years and invite the audience to consider the relevance to their lives, their work and broader society. The session will compromise part plenary discussion, part break-out conversations and part key-note, although the contents of the key note will be randomly decided by a bingo machine.
 
This session is for anyone that is keen to understand how habitual patterns of stuckness impact their lives and their work and how moving towards a philosophy of not knowing, wanton experimentation and passionate non-attachment can liberate a more enlivening and artistic approach that is a fundamental part of being human.

Book your place here.
 
Steve is an artist, writer and speaker interested in creativity and the human condition.

He has spoken around the world on the subject of creativity and culture and worked with over 80 organisations in many sectors to help free them from ever-tightening loops of common sense. He holds an MSc with distinction in Organisations Culture/Change and has held roles as visiting faculty on a number of MSc programmes at Ashridge Business School, the Metanoia Institute and Roffey Park.

As an artist he has sold his work across five continents, exhibited alongside the likes of Pablo Picasso and David Shrigley and in 2021 held two successful solo-exhibitions of his work in Hampshire and central London.

He is at his best when he is not quite sure what he is doing.

DATES:  9 June 2022

TIME: 0800 - 1000 UK

COST:  £39 + VAT where applicable