Shoots

Shoot posts are mini-research projects; they are intersections where my inquiries and research begin to gather and interact. These are where I connect various sprouting ideas until it becomes a growing study.

FAQs about Shoots

What is a shoot in my garden?

A shoot is a collection of multiple sprouts together that expand or strengthen into a bundle.

How do I decide what is worth adding as a shoot?

As soon as I recognize two sprouts that are somehow related, they connect as a shoot. Ideally, overtime the shoot will grow and expand.

How do shoot in my digital garden compare to the Zettelkasten method?

Rather than having cards that are physically next to each other, my shoots use links to build up a bundle. But the idea is the same.

Shoots are kinda like mood boards, but for ideas.

1 — Creativity & Curiosity

Everyone is creative!

1.0.1

What is creativity?

1.0

2 — Making & Art

Making is available to everyone.

Making stuff improves our lives.

2.1

3 — Mental & Emotional Well-being

Meditation rewires our brains.

5 — Intentional Living

On imagining and building new worlds.

10 — Research

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1 — Creativity & Curiosity

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What is creativity?

General Creativity

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Everyone is creative!

General Creativity

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1.0.2

How to be (more) creative.

General Creativity

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Limits encourage creativity.

General Creativity

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Waiting for a creative assignment.

General Creativity

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School limits creativity/curiosity.

General Creativity

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What is curiosity? → Curiosity is about turning slightly to what interests us.

Curiosity

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How to get & stay curious.

Curiosity

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How to be curious.

Curiosity

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Walking supports curiosity.

Curiosity

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We can learn a lot from kids.

Curiosity

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What is thinkering?

With our hands

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What happens when we thinker.

With our hands

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Process is the point.

Process

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Flow states open us up to new connections.

Process

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For when we can’t create or feel blocked.

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How can we stay in the question, rather than offer answers?

Curiosity

Questions

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How can we have good ideas?

Good ideas

Ideas

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Cultivating conditions for good ideas & good work

Good ideas

Ideas

2 — Making & Art

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Making is available to everyone.

General Making

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Why we make stuff

General Making

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Making stuff improves our lives.

Making stuff helps us

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Making stuff supports our mental health.

Making stuff helps us

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Making helps us process our emotions.

Making stuff helps us

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Making creates a safe space.

Making stuff helps us

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Making stuff (art) is a way to explore.

Making stuff helps us

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How to decide what to make & find creative voice

How to make stuff

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We have to make stuff that WE love.

How to make stuff

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The process of making stuff.

How to make stuff

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Things to Try

How to make stuff

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2.3.2

How to make stuff.

How to make stuff

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Collage - alchemy - modular builds

What to make

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Sculpture

What to make

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2.5

Art can capture what words can’t.

What art can offer us

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2.5.1

Talking about visual art allows for activity in the body and the mind.

What art can offer us

3 — Mental & Emotional Well-being

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Joy makes life sweeter.

What makes us well

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We make sense of our lives through stories.

What makes us well

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We are wired for connection.

What makes us well

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Meditation rewires our brains.

What makes us well

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Trust and safety make our well-being possible.

The functions of well-being

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Brain

The functions of well-being

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Our brains revert to what is easy/safe.

The functions of well-being

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We play a big part in our mental health.

Pursuing well-being

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Let’s avoid depression, m’kay?

Pursuing well-being

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We can shift our nervous system.

Pursuing well-being

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We can increase our awareness of everyday moments.

Pursuing well-being

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Addiction is an adaptive response.

Living with the hard stuff

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We are all addicts.

Living with the hard stuff

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What is “moral injury”?

Living with the hard stuff

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What leads to burnout

Living with the hard stuff

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How to recover/rebuild from bullying, burnout, and moral injury. NOURISH.

Living with the hard stuff

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How to keep going when everything feels hopeless.

Living with the hard stuff

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We support ourselves through ritual.

Support wellbeing

4 — Physical Health

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We play a big part in our physical health because of the mind-body connection.

Pursuing physical health.

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4.1.0

Exercise helps us release stress.

Exercise

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4.1.1

Exercise helps us process emotions.

Exercise

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Walking is good for you.

Exercise

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How do we sleep?

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COVID

Pursuing physical health.

5 — Intentional Living

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What it means to REST.

Being Intentional & Grounded

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5.0

Rituals help to ground us.

Being Intentional & Grounded

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5.0

Altars allow us to be intentional.

Being Intentional & Grounded

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5.0.2

We can cultivate gratitude.

Being Intentional & Grounded

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5.0.3

Vulnerability

Being Intentional & Grounded

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5.1

There is a rhythm to the seasons.

Seasons

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We can bring nature to us, surround ourselves with it.

Seasons

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5.1.1

Winter Season

Seasons

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Spring Season

Seasons

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Summer Season

Seasons

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Fall / Autumn Season

Seasons

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Gardening is practice of tending.

Attention

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5.2

Everything wants our attention.

Attention

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Why we need our attention

Attention

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What you give your attention to grows.

Attention

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5.3

We educate at home.

Unschooling

Kids

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Unschooling

Kids

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5.4

How to be a leader

Making an impact

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5.5

Doing things differently

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It’s not how to play the game, but WHAT game are you playing?

Doing things differently

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Choosing to live a slow pace allows for richer experience.

Doing things differently

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Our milieu - our context influences us.

Doing things differently

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5.6

How do with live like THIS?

Living with the hard stuff

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5.6

Making sense of the world

Living with the hard stuff

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5.6

When everything feels hopeless.

Living with the hard stuff

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To be in the world now, you have to either be unaware or in denial.

Living with the hard stuff

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5.7

We ignore things by staying busy.

Barriers to intentional living

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5.8

Growth is a slow process of deprogramming & integrating embodied knowledge.

Change

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5.8

Should we stay or go?

Change

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We’re always facing the choice to keep things the same or innovate forward.

Change

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5.8

Sometimes you just have to go off the map

Change

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On imagining and building new worlds.

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New Shoot Post/Topic

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Schools are designed to train workers who will conform, who can follow orders, memorize facts, and submit.

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If we are going to focus on resting and slowing down—and pushing back on our capitalist, white supremacist, ableist, patriarchal world—we are going to weird. We will live as outliers.

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The goal is to keep us numb so that we are disarmed of our autonomy and innate power.

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Ego keeps us from being intentional.

Barriers to intentional living

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Building a world when you don’t fit in, when you are priced out of the market.

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How can we understand the actions of others?

Understanding others

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If you build/write/make it, they will come.

Doing things differently

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How can we rise above other people’s bullshit and stay grounded?

Doing things differently

6 — Writing & Reading

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Let's make ideas accessible.

How to write

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How to find/create my writing voice

How to write

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Newsletter

How to write

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Making connections

How to write

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How to write on the internet

How to write

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How to write about your work.

How to write

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Adding structure to a project.

How to write

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How to write a bio.

How to write

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Zettelkasten Note System

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Why we read

How to read

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6.3

How to digital garden

Digital Garden

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How to write

7 — Teaching

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Why teaching is important.

Teaching Higher Ed

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Higher education.

Teaching Higher Ed

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Engagement matters most.

Being in the classroom

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Culturally responsive teaching

Being in the classroom

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Classroom environment shapes learning.

Being in the classroom

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What’s necessary for learning?

Being in the classroom

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Let's make ideas accessible in the classroom.

Being in the classroom

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Trust with students

Student interactions

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Ego in teaching

Student interactions

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Giving feedback, well

Student interactions

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Planning/designing assignments.

Planning

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Give students opportunity for self-evaluation.

Planning

8 — Nervous system

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8.1

About the nervous system

Nervous System

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8.1.1

What the ANS can do

Nervous System

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ANS determines behavior

Nervous System

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ANS as intervening variable

Nervous System

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PVT/ANS as a lens

Nervous System

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What is PVT?

PVT

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8.3

Up & down the ladder

Ladder

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8.3.1

What happens in safety/ventral vagal

Ladder

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8.3.2

what happens in flight-flight/sympathetic mode

Ladder

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8.3.3

What happens in shutdown/freeze/dorsal vagal

Ladder

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Co-regulation fixes things.

Ladder

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8.3.5

Self-regulation

Ladder

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8.4

What is neuroception?

Neuroception

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How neuroception is shaped

Neuroception

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What neuroception does

Neuroception

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8.4.3

Faulty neuroception

Neuroception

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Cues of safety and danger

Neuroception

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8.5

Vagus Nerve

Vagus

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8.6

Attunement & Misattunement

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8.7

What is trauma?

Trauma

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Effects of trauma

Trauma

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We are always looking for safety, trying to avoid being dysregulated.

ANS relevance to everything else

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8.8

Why ANS for PA/public interactions

ANS relevance to everything else

9 — Interactions

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We can be intentional about our interactions with others.

Interactions

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How PA explores interactions

Interactions

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Takeaways for interactions/PA

Interactions

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9.1

Understanding the impact of felt experience

Components of interactions.

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9.1

What is attunement?

Components of interactions.

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In-betweens

Components of interactions.

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9.1

How to infuse interactions/organizations with CARE.

Components of interactions.

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Accountability is the foundation for good interactions.

Components of interactions.

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9.2

Righting workplace wrongs. Preventing workplace trauma.

Improving interactions.

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9.2

ANS in supporting public interactions

Improving interactions.

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9.3

Complications for interactions

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How to improve interactions

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What is felt experience?

10 — Research

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There is a focus on objective reality (outcome) vs. one on subjective experience (process).

General Research

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The dominant paradigm of research narrows our focus and options.

General Research

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10.1

Moving on from traditional research.

Alternative research

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10.2

What art based research can do

Art & research

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10.2

How to do art-based research

Art & research

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10.2

Art as a way to examine & capture experience/process/feeling.

Art & research

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Exploring what is just below the surface. (3rd space, different language, inaccessible

Art & research

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Art as...

Art & research

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10.2

Examples of Art & Research

Art & research

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10.2

Art as research offers unique ways of examing and communicating experience.

Art & research

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10.2

What is art based research?

Art & research

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We can reimagine the world.

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when you need to open a portal

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Is it COVID? Is it nervous system dysregulation? (Both?)

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The Medium or the Message?

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How I grow sprouts

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How I collect seeds

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How do we maintain quality, while being responsive to reality?

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Common narratives are going to be either ends of the spectrum

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How do we deal with denial and gaslighting? When people say they are progressive leftist but won't wear masks? Where people say they want to enjoy life but risk brain damage? Say one thing and do another?

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How do we help when everything is designed to harm?

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How to get things done when motivation isn’t enough and you don’t want to use force

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New Shoot Post/Topic

Interactions

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How do we deprogram perfectionism?

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What is a digital garden?

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Dreams

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Tricksters vs. Martyrs

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Conformity and capitulation

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It’s time to abandon attendance policies

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Piecing things together

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What’s the point of making stuff?

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Testing a New Shoot Post

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Hope