“Many people are cut off from their creativity, because they think you have to be an artist to be creative, and actually, we are all creating our lives at every moment.” Gaia Harvey Jackson


E193 – States Of Awe

The Power Of Creativity


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How can we cultivate creativity to imagine a society that serves all of us?
 
 
“Many people are cut off from their creativity, because they think you have to be an artist to be creative, and actually, we are all creating our lives at every moment.” Gaia Harvey Jackson
 
In this special episode we gather with Chris Bullzini, Kay Michael, Gaia Harvey Jackson and Dannii Evans to explore the power of creativity. This conversation is an invitation for all of us to connect and grow our creativity in whichever ways accessible to us, wherever we find ourselves. It is a call for us to create space for play, for embodiment and feeling a sense of awe so we can reimagine and recreate our societies into works of art that serve us all.
 
We learn about
:: their different creative practices and personal journey’s as creatives reconnecting and blooming their imagination and creativity
:: what creativity looks like in these times and the impacts of creative monocultures
:: about presence and the state of awe
:: the relationship between creativity and the divine
:: about the power of collaboration
:: about how to create safe spaces where we can freely express ourselves and grow our creativity from an authentic place
 
“Creativity has no hierarchy, and it has no rules, and that is the space that I would wish and I pray that we all can dwell in together.” ~Kay Michael
 

 

Chris Bullzini is a high-wire walker, a father, an off-grid spiritual warrior of the heart and yogi. A dozen years on the road initiated him into truly discovering his soul shine as a performer and connected him to his love of altered states of consciousness through present moment activities. Both an extrovert showman and an introvert meditator, Chris loves nature, humans as well as all beings other than human.

Gaia Harvey Jackson is a facilitator, couples coach, artist and poet. She is the co-founder of True Nature, a co-director of Symbiota, and has worked closely with The Psychedelic Society since 2017.​​ Gaia’s primary work is leading retreats and training programmes, using movement, voice, authentic relating and ritual to create spaces for people to express big emotions, communicate from an empowered and embodied place, and find the courage to be unapologetically themselves. Gaia has worked with many leading organisations in the field of personal development including; Medicine Festival, Togetherness, Morning Gloryville, Alter Ego Network, Ecstatic Dance UK, Noisily, Ecosystem Restoration Camps and Pinky Promise.

Dannii Evans is a curator, artist & facilitator based between the UK, the Middle East & Mexico. Training as a visual artist & curator, Dannii combined her love of live performance to found OneTaste, the music and spoken word platform that developed exceptional talent, including Kate Tempest, Jamie Woon, 47SOUL, Nick Mulvey and Inua Ellams. As a space holder, she builds cross-cultural, interdisciplinary networks, festival programs and collaborative projects between artists, change-makers and professionals, creating invitations to participate in collective experiences for the purpose social transformation. Dannii’s passion lies in exploring cultural boundaries and bridges, to shift perceptions, dissolve borders and vision new futures together that reveal our true human connection.

Kay Sara Michael is a theatre-maker, creative producer, facilitator and activist. She has developed and directed award-winning new plays, sound journeys and dance; curated and produced arts and performance festivals; transformed streets into carnivals and derelict buildings into theatres. As a co-founder of Culture Declares Emergency she has facilitated hundreds of people to respond to the climate and ecological emergency. She is the co-founding director of the global participatory campaign Letters to the Earth, for which she co-edited the book ‘Letters to the Earth, Writing to a Planet in Crisis’ introduced by Emma Thompson. She is now developing Letters to the Earth for the stage.

 

To connect or work with Chris, visit chrisbullzini.com

To connect or work with Gaia, visit gaiaharveyjackson.com

To connect or work with Kay, visit letterstotheearth.com

To connect or work with Dannii, visit danniievans.com

To connect or work with Amisha, visit amisha.co.uk


artwork video: Danielle Bhavya Winter

 

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