Digital Training
Coombe offers bespoke online training for teams and individuals on the intersection between creativity + wellbeing.
The online sessions focus on the link between creativity and wellbeing, including flow state, how to process data so it becomes useful information, adrenalin and our nervous system responses to perceived skill levels and danger.
We live in a hyper connected world. From labs to summits, symposiums to social media. We are constantly connecting to the ‘hive mind’ and it’s increasingly happening online, but also in smaller numbers in person, regionally, nationally & internationally and, in time, larger in-person gatherings will happen again. Access to information, combined with rapid changes in our environment, mean we are gathering of huge amounts of data and great minds from cognitive scientists to academics, economists to Buddhists, to app developers, are indicating that this constant gathering of data, combined with a life lived increasingly online, IS causing problems for creativity, attention, wellness and the imagination. They also seem to largely agree that having time ‘switched’ off, preferably in the natural world, is key to fuelling imagination. That idleness enables the brain’s ‘Default Mode Network’ to function well and make connections needed to imagine future scenarios. To simplify it, whilst connection and information - the abundant receptive phase – is positive, we also need the other phase, the time when the brain has time to process the information, and in so doing, it can forge links between all the information it has gathered.
“When you’re in the fight or flight mode your blood stream is being dominated by norepinephrine [in that state] you’re not experiencing your vulnerability or connection, just being in a heightened state, when you’re always reacting to the impulses that are coming in around you you’re not even responding for one, but when you’re reacting, you can’t really make long-term plans. You can’t be driven by your greater values. You really have to put your big values aside and confront the immediate challenges that are coming at you.”
The sessions also allow for time to discuss and develop strategies for dealing with these stresses in order to improve wellbeing and in turn creativity and imagination.
If you are interested in exploring these issues as an individual, or with your team, get in touch. We can design a bespoke zoom course for you, and generally recommend five x 1hr sessions @ £120/session.
The sessions are led by Lara Lloyd who has 20 years of experience in the arts supporting individuals and organisations going through significant transitions with their work, including organisations in the UK and oversees. Lara also has experience in commissioning, producing and programming work and is the Director of Coombe Farm Studios.