Module Four: What art thou pitching?
Time to put on your Aviators and get all Don Draper!
Tell us what you’re pitching (or preparing to pitch) and how you’re going to make it more personal, specific, moving, and honest.
Remember: extra credit for those who share a non-work example. We mustn’t forget that our work is to integrate our life and art. This is a safe place to practice!
Module Three: Let’s fight resistance together
What does Resistance look like for you today & what are you doing to fight it?
Module Two: Side projects | What moves you?
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Module Two: What does the king think?
“When we are attuned to the expectations of the boss or the corporate culture rather than to the soul’s imperatives, we cannot co-create anything of truth and beauty.” – Parker Palmer
Another way to say it is like this: When we think only about the audience, when we intend to move before first being moved ourselves, what we make simply won’t ring as true. When we think of pleasing our boss without any care for ourselves and our own hearts, we can’t create true and meaningful work.
Describe a time when you created something where you thought only about what your boss or client would think.
How did that make you feel?
Module Two: It’s all about love
You and I will just keep going the way we’re already going unless something disturbs or disrupts us. And this is where art as movement comes in.
“Love is not a feeling. No matter how much you feel, love means nothing when unrelated to action. Love is action. In order to engage in effective action you must first find something that you value and put it in the center of your life. When you put your life in the service of what you value, that action will engender other values and beliefs. Through engagement, things happen. Movement is all. Keep moving and yet slow down simultaneously. In Latin this is known as festina lente, “make haste slowly.” Inside of this paradox, you make a space where growth and art can happen. Within the framework of art, you will find a special freedom and the space and time to explore complexities. It does not cost you anything. It costs you your life.” – Anne Bogart
Anne Bogart is a famous theatre director and a personal hero of mine. She writes so well about the act of making. As she states above, the core of moving people, for her, comes from love. If love is an action, then art must find its basis in love and then must work to move from the inside out … from the artist first and then to the audience.
As you think about your creed as it stands today, write (or paint, sketch, pray, sing) about putting your life in service of love, meaning, and movement.
Module One: your working creed
Hopefully you’ve just done your brain dump in the workbook.
Now, won’t you be brave and share with us your working creed?
As the workbook mentioned, one great way to begin working out your creed is by imagining that you yourself are a book. That’s right, a book – on a shelf, digital, or in a library.
If I were to pick you up, what would your title be? Mine would be The World Isn’t Finished. Seth Godin’s might be The System is Broken. Try and make it concise, using as few words as possible. Remember, this can be tweaked, but you must get something on the page!
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