Creative Deconstruction Workshops...NOW!
That’s right. I have secured a space. All that remains is the gathering of 12 humans to commit to a 13 week, $250 adventure of the wildest kind possible. Together, we will learn to live harmoniously with one another. We will experiment in 12 distinct dimensions of human and post-human experience. To conclude our journey together, we will conspire to produce an immense amount of multimedia art works together, to be sold to collect money for our next adventure.
This post is about the subject matter of the Creative Deconstruction Workshop Series.
The workshop series will act as an organic initiation. An initiation into what, you might ask? An initiation into the organic nature of life, and the interaction between your essence, your perpetual thread of ‘you-ness,’ and the body, and the interactions between the body and everything else. You are old hat at all of this, believe me. Anyone who has ever lived the life of a 4- or 5-year-old can tell you that what you think you see is not exactly always what you get. Play becomes far more important as a source of inspiration, energy, and discovery, than some kind of uber-conscious intellectual pursuit of meaning and understanding.
Here, in a sweeping introduction, you will find a concise exploration of the boat-launches we will use to explore the rivers and lakes of Creative Deconstruction together.
If you find yourself compelled to explore the workshops, email me or leave a comment, and I will contact you with further information about how to make your deposit and apply. I will accept 12 earnest individuals into the first workshop series. It will later be available in DVD, CD, and print format, which you will be able to purchase and use at home, on your own time, with your own group.
Also, I am open to the possibility of using my justiv.tv site to broadcast the workshops live, as well as conducting a repeat workshop for online participants only, again limited to 12 at one time. The workshops will be recorded on justin.tv and later be made available for purchase as part of the limited DVD release.
Material produced by original real life participants may be used in later releases of the product, with whatever byline they would like to list with it.
I have 6 people in mind for the workshop series so far. I pray for the Most Holy Endlessness to bless my life with 6 synchronistic encounters that reveal the other 6 of you to me. Remember, we don’t have to get along for this to be effective. In fact, if we get a proper group together, we will be at odds with each other to some degree or another. We will welcome this energy into the group process and observe the results.
With the exception of Workshop 0, whose purpose will be to introduce the workshop series, to tune in with one another, and to experience a sample exercise from each of the future workshops, the rest of the workshops will consist of 5 or 6 jump-off points to inspire discussion and to lay the groundwork for extensive experimentation with methods correlated to the subject at hand. There will be enough time left open to discuss our experiences and to diverge into directions dictated by the organic flow of the group itself. At workshop 0, we will discuss and experience methods by which we can detect the flow of the group and align ourselves with it.
Workshop Zero
This first workshop, called Ground Zero, will lay the foundation for all the workshops in the series to follow. Since I will be giving an overview of each of the workshops further ahead in this post, I will not introduce them further in discussion about Ground Zero. We will have discussions, prepare our journals, and experiment with 13 sample exercises from the upcoming workshops.
Workshop 1: A Simple Twist of Face
This workshop will deal with and begin unleashing the immense power of the eyes and face. We will explore various approaches to understanding how the eyes and face work to build images in our mind, and to project our inner states outward toward others. We will explore how to read emotions in faces and eyes, and how to project any emotion you wish, on demand. This workshop will give you the tools to break apart your facial tensions and to approach each situation with fresh eyes. The tools will also make you more organic and dynamic in the situations you face throughout your day.
Workshop 2: Wagging Your Tales: The Record
Workshop 2 will get into detail around the simple but profound device, the journal. Books stand as the most advanced technological device known to humanity. They can transfer information over vast chasms of space and time, without the use of electricity or power of any kind. We will use personal blank books and notebooks as tools for exploration, creation, creativity, and the attainment of your desires. We will explore the use of journals as tools to change your state, and to explore into what some have called, Macrodimensions.
Workshop 3: All is Food for You
Workshop 3 will deal with consumption. By this I refer to the consumption of food, water, air, impressions, sense data, information, other people, energy, and entertainment. We will explore the nature of life eating life, while we sample foods, blessings, methods, and approaches to eating, cooking, and taking in impressions from our experiences. We will also share a delightful and empowering exercise in which we practice at consuming praise and criticism.
Workshop 4: Health, Wellness, Exercise: Move
Workshop 4 will consist of all things healthy and well. We will examine some advertisements for illnesses and create empowering wellness charms to carry around to help us remember the true nature of health and wellness. We will create advertisements for various states of health, wellness, and joy. We will also write each other prescriptions for various problems and ailments in our lives and bodies. Move, Move, Move! We will also explore an extensive series of physical exercises, stretches, and movements that have the potential to empower and physically strengthen all who practice them.
Workshop 5: If Your Work is Displeasing…
Workshop 5 will cover all things related to work. First, we will explore definitions and perceptions of the word itself. Next, we will cover value, states of experience, and happiness. We will explore the differences between work and toil. The workshop will deliver methods and approaches you can use to steal your time back from those you have given it over to. This workshop will help to elicit a deep sense of the life’s work of each participant. We will explore value creation out of thin air.
Workshop 6: $$, Exchange, Value
Workshop 6 will go further into an exploration of money form many different angles. We will examine and play with cash and coins to determine where the value is hidden in them. We will explore the differences between having money and having experiences. The workshop will deliver many tools with which you can turn money into a source of power. We will also cover some lesser-known Vodou rituals for money attraction, as well as other fun money superstitions and magical practices. We will energize the group with a money-attraction aura, and share the results the following week.
Workshop 7: Words, Words, Words…
Workshop 7 will explore the physical nature of just how in the hell the whole world and universe can fit inside your head. Words seem more real than reality to many people, and this workshop will reveal this over and over and over again. We will explore crossword puzzles, wordplay, composing poems together, automatic writing, and alternate forms of written composition. Finally, for the final portion of the workshop, we will each create 11 empowering new words for our own magical use, and to share with the group.
Workshop 8: Learning How To Learn
This workshop will explore the phenomena of Learning how to Learn. We will explore the minute differences between knowledge and information. We will use tools to convert information into knowledge. We will also explore methods of converting knowledge into information and back again, to devise channels by which we may truly share our experiential data with one another in a meaningful and powerful ways. We will look at concepts behind ultra-fast learning, and attempt experiments into these realms.
Workshop 9: Breathing
This workshop will address breathing. Breath is life, as any human can tell you. We will explore multiple ways of using the awareness and the breath to empower, relax, and get deeper into any situation you choose. We will explore the relationship between breath and movement, breath and art, breath and sex, and anything else breath related.
Workshop 10: Relationships
Workshop 10 will cover everything related to friendships and relationships. We will create a visual depiction of the people in our life, and start to see why we have placed them in our lives, and what they offer to us. We will explore the multitude of invisible contracts that come with relating to each other. We will uncover and explore all kinds of relationships, ways of relating, and methods of communication. Together, we will devise and explore ways of relating that empower, enlighten, and embolden each other.
Workshop 11: Your Lab, Your Life. No Way As Way.
Workshop 11 will take all that we have explored up to that point and align it into group and solo activities to train ourselves to be more aware, more attentive, more focused, more productive, more creative, and more joyous. We will explore group experiment proposals, do spiritual gaming, focus work with the attentiacizer, and, if there’s time, we will explore some of the Radical Undoing and Energized Meditation work with a few volunteers.
Workshop 12: Advanced Work: Rapid Tasking
Finally, workshop 12 will delve into advanced individual and group work, including possible international retreat events, luxury global travel, online workshop opportunities, local workshops to build on our experience, home study work, personal consultation and escape planning, and the development and planning of the Ark of Infinite Possibility, the impetus behind all that I do. We will use a technique called “Rapid Tasking” to complete various projects together and alone.
Ok, folks. If you made it this far, congrats. I look very forward to meeting up with the 6 of you who are fated to attend this workshop with me. May we enjoy together soon…….
Love, wildness, chaos, joy……
-GTD
Who will be the first?