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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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+ | === Futures of Doing Nothing === | ||
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+ | A scenario workshop and series of pre-enactments on [[:/ | ||
=== Naikan === | === Naikan === | ||
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+ | Links from the online [[Mindfulness Summit]] in October 2015 | ||
==== Karma Yoga ==== | ==== Karma Yoga ==== | ||
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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, | ||
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+ | ==== Purposeless walking ==== | ||
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+ | 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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A competition in lazing around in Monte Negro (the winner managed 37 hours without a toilet break): http:// | 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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+ | ==== On Agalmic ==== | ||
+ | Nik Gaffney' |