week 9
​CREATIVITY

Being free to realize creative potential and to enjoy exploring novelty. Encouraging protectors to relax and allow parts to express themselves, unencumbered by burdens of fear, worthlessness, or shame. 

“Neuroimaging experiments show us that we use the very same neural systems to feel our bodies as to feel our relationships, our moral judgments, and our creative inspiration,” ~Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, USC Brain and Creativity Institute

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Optional Pain Science Review

No review of current chronic pain science would be complete without a nod to the work of Lorimer Moseley. You can find many of his instructional video lectures and articles online as well as books he has authored with David Butler such as Explain Pain.

Tame the Beast: A creative way to rethink persistent pain

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Course Handouts & Video

We will refer to this info in class

Cultivating creativity: "Diving into the wreck"

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CULTIVATING CREATIVITY: TBA

Externalizing to Unblend ? Legacy Burdens? Or...?

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CULTIVATING CREATIVITY: Feldenkrais Illustrated by Tiffany Sankary

"My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired patterns of behavior so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants." ~Moshe Feldenkrais​

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Homework

Some things to explore after
​Week 9 class

FELDENKRAIS –

Free lessons at The Feldenkrais Project

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IFS Practice – 
​INNER ACTIVE CARDS / PARTS WORK

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IFS (adjacent) –
You have probably seen (or heard about) the movie Inside Out as a good intro to IFS. There's another recent Pixar animated short you may not have seen: Twenty Something. What other works in popular culture contain a non-pathologized exploration of subpersonalities?