MARKINGS:
Encounters with Imagination 
Markings is a experiential learning opportunity where things get made .
The goals are to engage the imagination, provoke an expanded experience of
creative competence and a renewed appreciation of activities with others.
MARKINGS emphasizes the use of simple tools and common materials to make
personal expressive objects. It also involves times for self-reflection and
discussion. A resource package is provided for further personal activity.
MARKINGS is
related to Creative Coaching, Wellness practices, Mindfulness. But making,
not talking or writing, is the primary activity to create more awareness,
alertness and well-being.
based in an understanding of the relationships of Right Brain and Left
Brain activities and the need for balance and re-balance
based in practices developed by Alchemists and Surrealist poets and artists
to engage The Unconscious Mind and develop regular practices in Nature
Thinking
WHY do this??
You have an interest in developing more and better innate intelligences,
capacities and talents.
You understand that many important things can’t be done just once and or
all… like eating, breathing, exercise . This is Exercise of the Imagination.
This is a Tune-Up.
You need this emphasis --permission-- for exploration, discovery, practice
-- not production.
Techniques, tools are always in service to discovery. You are
interested in developing greater comfort with non-logical thinking and
visual expression.
The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of
neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact is that the
approach to the numinous is the real therapy and inasmuch as you attain to the
numinous experiences you are released from the curse of pathology." (Jung
1973, 1:377)