Riding the Creative Rollercoaster by Udall Nick;

Author:Udall, Nick;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kogan Page, Limited

In the next chapter I would like to introduce eight things that become available to organizations once they have learned to step over this golden threshold and play in and with the fourth realm.

The creative power of disbelief

When I was a doctoral student I had to undertake a certain number of teaching hours with undergraduates. I chose to teach life drawing in the art department as five or six years earlier I’d had a life-changing experience with a Japanese (master) teacher. He had forced us to use our unfamiliar hand. He got us to draw things upside-down, back-to-front, to music, in silence, against the clock… anything and everything to confound orthodoxy, interrupt the ego and disturb the status quo.

Using the drawing techniques that I had learned from my teacher, and subsequently from the work of Betty Edwards and her famous book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (1979), I came to understand and develop other methodologies that made the familiar unfamiliar and the unfamiliar familiar. I became fascinated with how, in a very short period of time, you could help novice drawers draw something that they never thought they could. They would come in with a belief that they were ‘no good at drawing’; and yet in 40 minutes, through a series of eight five-minute drawings, you could transform their belief system, through the creative power of disbelief, where they would end up saying, ‘I can’t believe I just did that’.

This was a foundational insight for me, that learning through peak experience can reorder our sense of self, and our sense of the world around us. By intervening at this level, the world seemed magical again.

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