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== Motivation == | == Motivation == | ||
- | [EN] Stress, Burnout, ADD and pathological anxiety attacks are just a few examples of the contemporary malaise of too much work -- too little satisfaction, | + | [EN] Stress, Burnout, ADD and pathological anxiety attacks are just a few examples of the contemporary malaise of too much work -- too little satisfaction, |
- | [NL] Stress, Burn-out, ADD en pathologische angstaanvallen zijn maar enkele voorbeelden van de hedendaagse malaise van te veel werk - te weinig voldoening, te veel informatie - te weinig betekenis. We zijn als samenleving een beetje de kluts kwijt... Wat is er gebeurd met de beloftes dat democratie en technologische innovatie een paradijselijke rechtvaardige samenleving met zich zouden brengen, met een overvloed aan vrije tijd en zelfontwikkeling? | + | [NL] Stress, Burn-out, ADD en pathologische angstaanvallen zijn maar enkele voorbeelden van de hedendaagse malaise van te veel werk - te weinig voldoening, te veel informatie - te weinig betekenis. We zijn als samenleving een beetje de kluts kwijt... Wat is er gebeurd met de beloftes dat democratie en technologische innovatie een paradijselijke rechtvaardige samenleving met zich zouden brengen, met een overvloed aan vrije tijd en zelfontwikkeling? |
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We began Doing Nothing as a formal programme in 2013. Informally, we've been exploring different techniques of being, introspection, | We began Doing Nothing as a formal programme in 2013. Informally, we've been exploring different techniques of being, introspection, | ||
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+ | === Stillness === | ||
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+ | Photographic experiments in ethereality, | ||
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+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
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+ | === Futures of Doing Nothing === | ||
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+ | A scenario workshop and series of pre-enactments on [[:/ | ||
=== Naikan === | === Naikan === | ||
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- | The three Naikan questions have since the retreat helped release tensions during conflict situations. | + | |
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- | * What have I received from __________ ? | + | |
- | * What have I given to __________ ? | + | |
- | * What troubles and difficulties have I caused __________ ? | + | |
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- | === Mindfulness/ | + | |
In 2010 Maja followed the 8 week course in [[http:// | In 2010 Maja followed the 8 week course in [[http:// | ||
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A talk from Medium about a [[https:// | A talk from Medium about a [[https:// | ||
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http:// | http:// | ||
- | === Karma Yoga === | + | Links from the online [[Mindfulness Summit]] in October 2015 |
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+ | ==== Karma Yoga ==== | ||
Exercise suggestion: Every morning when arriving at FoAM allow yourself to really arrive in the studio by doing something that will help make the place more enjoyable/ | Exercise suggestion: Every morning when arriving at FoAM allow yourself to really arrive in the studio by doing something that will help make the place more enjoyable/ | ||
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* Nice article on Karma Yoga and volunteering: | * Nice article on Karma Yoga and volunteering: | ||
- | === Morning ritual === | + | ==== Morning ritual |
Exercise suggestion: Design a small ritual that would allow you to really ' | Exercise suggestion: Design a small ritual that would allow you to really ' | ||
- | === Regular pauses === | + | ==== Regular pauses |
In order to keep sufficiently concentrated for eight or more hours a day, it helps to take regular breaks (once every (half) hour for a minute or so). | In order to keep sufficiently concentrated for eight or more hours a day, it helps to take regular breaks (once every (half) hour for a minute or so). | ||
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- | === Meeting rituals === | + | ==== Meeting rituals |
Exercise proposal: Before beginning a meeting, sit together in silence for a few minutes. Become aware of yourself, your moods and expectations. Experience the presence of other people and remind yourself that they might have different moods or expectations, | Exercise proposal: Before beginning a meeting, sit together in silence for a few minutes. Become aware of yourself, your moods and expectations. Experience the presence of other people and remind yourself that they might have different moods or expectations, | ||
+ | ==== Purposeless walking ==== | ||
- | === Monotasking === | + | A number of recent books have lauded the connection between walking - just for its own sake - and thinking. But are people losing their love of the purposeless walk? |
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+ | ==== Monotasking | ||
In recent years it has become increasingly apparent that multitasking is quite ineffective and stress inducing -- it's akin to an institutionalised and encouraged form of ADD. At FoAM we're experimenting with different approaches to reduce extreme multitasking in the work of individuals and groups. | In recent years it has become increasingly apparent that multitasking is quite ineffective and stress inducing -- it's akin to an institutionalised and encouraged form of ADD. At FoAM we're experimenting with different approaches to reduce extreme multitasking in the work of individuals and groups. | ||
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+ | ==== Bored, on Mars==== | ||
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+ | < | ||
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+ | http:// | ||
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+ | </ | ||
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+ | ==== Chronesthesia ==== | ||
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+ | < | ||
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+ | This dark network (which comprises regions in the frontal, parietal and medial temporal lobes) is off when we seem to be on, and on when we seem to be off. If you climbed into an MRI machine and lay there quietly, waiting for instructions from a technician, the dark network would be as active as a beehive. But the moment your instructions arrived and your task began, the bees would freeze and the network would fall silent. When we appear to be doing nothing, we are clearly doing something. But what? | ||
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+ | The answer, it seems, is time travel. </ | ||
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+ | From: TIME http:// | ||
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+ | ==== Unemployment ==== | ||
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+ | "What do you do when you find yourself with a lot more time and a lot less money on your hands than you’re used to?" | ||
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+ | http:// | ||
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+ | ==== Hannah Arendt on Scholê, in Thinking (The Life of the Mind) ==== | ||
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+ | Wat alle mentale activiteiten gemeen hebben, is de specifieke rust, (...) de terugtrekking uit elk engagement en de opschorting van alle onmiddellijke belangen, die mij partijdig maken en die mij op de een of andere manier deel doen uitmaken van de werkelijke wereld – een terugtrekking waar we eerder naar verwezen (§9, tekst na noot 14), als de eerste vereiste van het oordelen. (...) distantiëring van het doen (130) | ||
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+ | Scholê is niet de vrije tijd zoals wij die verstaan - de niet door activiteit bezette tijd die overblijft na een dag vol van “bezigheden ter vervulling van de levensbehoeften”. Scholê daarentegen is het weloverwogen afzien van, zich onthouden van (schein in het Grieks) de gebruikelijke activiteiten in dienst van onze dagelijkse behoeften (hê tôn anagkaiôn scholê), met de bedoeling ergens rustig de tijd voor te nemen (scholên agein). (...) We hebben hier dus te maken met een weloverwogen, | ||
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+ | ==== Paul Lafargue 'The Right To Be Lazy' ==== | ||
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+ | "And meanwhile the proletariat, | ||
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+ | Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. – Lessing | ||
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+ | http:// | ||
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+ | ==== Dzabalebariti ==== | ||
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+ | An excellent Balkan word meaning 'doing nothing': | ||
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+ | A competition in lazing around in Monte Negro (the winner managed 37 hours without a toilet break): http:// | ||
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+ | ==== theaternyx* ==== | ||
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+ | "in october 2013 we had a great experience with our colleagues during one week of (nearly) doing nothing. we were creating a design for the week with some simple structures and tools to provide a frame for the group. after a time together in the morning with feldenkrais, | ||
+ | after the walks we were guests at our host's places. also these hosts, sometimes a group, sometimes a single person didn't know what we were exactly up to. the only information given before was, that a group of people will come who will do nothing. and this situation was one of the "big surprises" | ||
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+ | all the people from our group and also our hosts were invited as the entire person they are. we were together not for work, nor to discuss something in particular; not to find anything out, not with a concrete theme or issue and nobody had to be a specialist for whatever … | ||
+ | all the people were asked to be only themselves. they were not asked to participate because of their profession (artist, performer, | ||
+ | and still, in the evenings of those days it felt as if the group had become larger and larger and our experience was that the time together with these people was so inspiring, a respectful learning from each other by doing nothing together." | ||
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+ | Claudia Seigmann, theaternyx* | ||
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+ | ==== Five reasons ==== | ||
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+ | - “Doing nothing” isn’t really doing nothing | ||
+ | - Aimlessness, | ||
+ | - Too much busyness is counterproductive | ||
+ | - The brain depends on downtime | ||
+ | - You’ll regain control of your attention | ||
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+ | http:// | ||
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+ | ==== Space Out === | ||
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+ | A few weeks ago, on a Sunday afternoon, about 70 people gathered at Ichon Hangang Park in Seoul, South Korea, to do absolutely nothing. There was not a smartphone in sight, no texting or taking selfies, and no one rushing to get anywhere. | ||
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+ | The crowd was taking part in South Korea' | ||
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+ | "I was suffering from burnout syndrome at the time, but would feel extremely anxious if I was sitting around doing nothing, not being productive in one way or another," | ||
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+ | http:// | ||
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+ | ==== On Agalmic ==== | ||
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+ | Nik Gaffney' | ||
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+ | ==== Keeping Quiet ==== | ||
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+ | by Pablo Neruda | ||
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+ | A callarse | ||
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+ | Ahora contaremos doce\\ | ||
+ | y nos quedamos todos quietos.\\ | ||
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+ | Por una vez sobre la tierra\\ | ||
+ | no hablemos en ningún idioma,\\ | ||
+ | por un segundo detengámonos, | ||
+ | no movamos tanto los brazos.\\ | ||
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+ | Sería un minuto fragante,\\ | ||
+ | sin prisa, sin locomotoras, | ||
+ | todos estaríamos juntos\\ | ||
+ | en una inquietud instantánea.\\ | ||
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+ | Los pescadores del mar frió\\ | ||
+ | no harían daño a las ballenas\\ | ||
+ | y el trabajador de la sal\\ | ||
+ | miraría sus manos rotas.\\ | ||
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+ | Los que preparan guerras verdes,\\ | ||
+ | guerras de gas, guerras de fuego,\\ | ||
+ | victorias sin sobrevivientes, | ||
+ | se pondrían un traje puro\\ | ||
+ | y andarían son sus hermanos\\ | ||
+ | por la sombra, sin hacer nada.\\ | ||
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+ | No se confunda lo quiero\\ | ||
+ | con la inacción definitiva: | ||
+ | la vida es solo lo que se hace,\\ | ||
+ | no quiero nada con la muerte.\\ | ||
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+ | Si no pudimos ser unánimes\\ | ||
+ | moviendo tanto nuestras vidas\\ | ||
+ | tal vez no hacer nada una vez,\\ | ||
+ | tal vez un gran silencio pueda\\ | ||
+ | interrumpir esta tristeza,\\ | ||
+ | este no entendernos jamás\\ | ||
+ | y amenazarnos con la muerte,\\ | ||
+ | tal vez la tierra nos enseñe\\ | ||
+ | cuando todo parece muerto\\ | ||
+ | y luego todo estaba vivo.\\ | ||
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+ | Ahora contare hasta doce\\ | ||
+ | y tú te callas y me voy.\\ | ||
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+ | Keeping Quiet | ||
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+ | Now we will count to twelve\\ | ||
+ | and we will all keep still.\\ | ||
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+ | For once on the face of the earth,\\ | ||
+ | let's not speak in any language;\\ | ||
+ | let's stop for one second,\\ | ||
+ | and not move our arms so much.\\ | ||
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+ | It would be an exotic moment\\ | ||
+ | without rush, without engines;\\ | ||
+ | we would all be together\\ | ||
+ | in a sudden strangeness.\\ | ||
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+ | Fisherman in the cold sea\\ | ||
+ | would not harm whales\\ | ||
+ | and the man gathering salt\\ | ||
+ | would look at his hurt hands.\\ | ||
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+ | Those who prepare green wars,\\ | ||
+ | wars with gas, wars with fire,\\ | ||
+ | victories with no survivors, | ||
+ | would put on clean clothes\\ | ||
+ | and walk about with their brothers\\ | ||
+ | in the shade, doing nothing.\\ | ||
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+ | What I want should not be confused\\ | ||
+ | with total inactivity.\\ | ||
+ | Life is what it is about;\\ | ||
+ | I want no truck with death.\\ | ||
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+ | If we were not so single-minded\\ | ||
+ | about keeping our lives moving,\\ | ||
+ | and for once could do nothing,\\ | ||
+ | perhaps a huge silence\\ | ||
+ | might interrupt this sadness\\ | ||
+ | of never understanding ourselves\\ | ||
+ | and of threatening ourselves with death.\\ | ||
+ | Perhaps the earth can teach us\\ | ||
+ | as when everything seems dead\\ | ||
+ | and later proves to be alive.\\ | ||
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+ | Now I'll count up to twelve\\ | ||
+ | and you keep quiet and I will go.\\ | ||
+ | —from Extravagaria |