Secrets of Creativity: Transitional Creativity: Appreciative Awareness

What is this Blog about?

I am currently exploring the value of developing the concept the Bridge and other related sites as a free public resource, and writing a series of ebooks on the subject .. while exploring/researching it as a Post Grad and designing various complimentarysoftware tools...
In this blog I explore techniques I have collected and developed for a social network space for people to Explore the bridge between Creative flow and Rational Thought".

"From the point of view of the larger planet, we proceed with an awareness that the whole system is far too complex or us to actually manage or control ....remember its a system that gave birth to us, so how then are we to interact in a way that is fruitfull?"
Brian Swimme

"Many of us have been trained perceive randomness as nothing but entropy, background 'noise' to be ignored, much as we are taught to treat the commons, yet the commons is the shared foundation of life...

The capacity to solve our problems is available , we are not goods in the hands of politicians and bankers...

Monday, 10 October 2011

Appreciative Awareness

The opposition of norms/values & data is a false one...what constitutes 'data' is subjective and depends on norms & values...

My concern is with enabling popular access to emergent phenomena , the definition of emergence suggests this occurs via awareness of the whole system not just parts or the sum of the parts. While some actions segment and restrict appreciative judgement(they are exclusive), some open up appreciative judgement (they are inclusive), Examples of activities that may open up awareness include random journeying, appreciation of natures layered textured surfaces and their 'random' movements, and other forms of random expression.