The O(map) creativity course

Aims and outcomes.

Creative is how you are. Understand the creative force, learn how to harness your creativity, and make of your life what you will.The O(map) creativity course is a 6 week practical, interactive and immersive experience designed to give you access to you full spectrum of creativity.

The course aims to cultivate in each student, an enlightened and personal relationship with the creative force. This means appreciating how your physical, psychic and energetic facets work together, in oppositional yet complimentary relationships, to naturally activate the spectrum.

Creativity isn’t what you think, it is how you see. This course will change how you see.

Online course structure.

The course is accessed online through the O(map) creativity website. All course materials are downloadable.

A basic tool kit will be required that can be sourced by the students themselves or ordered as a complete pack directly from the course provider prior to starting the course.

Students must have a smart phone and access to a printer to participate fully in an exchange of exercise outcomes.

Lessons, exercise briefs and course materials are pre-recorded and uploaded weekly.

Exercise outcomes will be uploaded by students for both peer and instructor review prior to weekly zoom meetings. A core asset of this course is that we will learn from each other.

Your subjective experience fundamentally underpins any objective understanding of what creativity is and how it works, so communication and interaction is encouraged and facilitated on an ongoing basis through an online O(map) community.

Each student will be able to avail of a private mentoring session during the course and will have the option to book further mentoring sessions at a discounted rate.

Creativity needs flexibility, so the course is currently and will always be, in a state of continual development. The course curriculum as described week by week, is a general structure and is subject to updates where required.

Week One

Prior to starting the course, you will have received your preparation file that contains a list of materials you will need to get for your practical tool kit, as well as a series of essays you will need to read. These essays will prime your understanding of what the issues are around creativity research, creativity education frameworks and how this course will address them. It is important to know what to expect and what is expected of you.

Week Two

O(map) fundamentals focusing on the three core elements of the O(map). Recognising that creative is how human beings are as a species, an in-depth exploration of how the core elements makes this so, will be explored subjectively and intuitively through a series of O(map) casino games. Blowing the mind; The psychology of wonder and awe. EYEKU and other practical ways of recording and sharing your subjective experience.

Week Three

Igniting the spectrum. Combining the core elements to activate secondary instruments; what they are, how they work and their characteristic strengths. (secondary instruments include, imagination, ideas, insight, skills, practice, process, discoveries, innovations and improvisation). Through practical exercises you will learn how to develop the two main faculties of your imagination.

Week Four

Locating your optimal creativity portal. The energetic activating power of complimentary contrasting couples explored through O(map) casino games and explained in neurological terms. The oppositional attentional requirements of creative flow and the three principle portals explored through O(map) casino games. Overview of Iain McGilchrist’s hypothesis on brain hemispheric division and how it impacts on how we perceive and create our reality. In this lesson you will learn how to Identify you own optimal creativity portal, identify problems, solutions and conditions for creative health.

Week Five

Creativity as the life force of evolving consciousness. The entire spectrum of creativity illuminated and what it tells us about the nature of consciousness. The hard problem of consciousness discussed within the context of the O(map) theory of creativity. (An overview of some of the contributions from psychology, philosophy, biology, quantum physics, neuroscience and mysticism.) Self-directed enquiry as an essential route to innate knowledge and creativity explored through O(map) casino game. Back to the fundamentals, how what we have discovered impacts on our understanding of creativity.

Week Six

Harnessing the true power of the creative force and balancing the spectrum. The role of intention; Intentional reverence, surrender and opening up to potential. An overview of Thomas Berry’s new story as a basis for creating our own “new story”.

Who is this for?

You are a conscious being, so creative is how you are. Understanding creativity will empower you to consciously make of your life, what you will.

If you want a true and in-depth understanding of creativity and an effective capacitating framework, the O(map) is for you.

If you are interested in how creativity really works, and not just how you think it should work, the O(map) is for you.

If you are interested in empowerment, in self-transformation and self- actualisation, the O(map) is for you.

If you feel stuck in any way in your life, either professionally or personally, the O(map) is for you.

If you want to affect positive change in the world of human endeavours, the O(map) is for you.

If you want to know how to be in alignment with the creative force, so that you can harness creative momentum to thrive in balance and in flow with life, then the O(map) is for you.

Why Art?

Art has an intimate relationship with the creative force, because it communicates by the same means as consciousness; resonance.

Art can only be conceived and understood by living conscious beings and thus, transcends the concerns of the instrumental, the institutional, the systematic and mechanistic, prioritising the human and making visible, the concerns of the living.

Art can examine, explore and express the human condition better than any other field of human enquiry, as the human condition may well be fundamentally, a condition of consciousness.

Experience has taught me that the best way to learn about creativity and awaken capacity, is by engaging the phenomenon personally and experientially. The artistic method simultaneously activates the body/mind/energy of an individual, engaging our fundamental subjectivity where creativity originates and is most potent.

Haptic activation is scientifically proven to tap innate knowledge and open other wider perceptive faculties. If you can write your name, you have all the haptic skills you need to participate fully in an O(map) creativity course.

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