The Design by Being Lab proposes a consciously embodied co-design process that entails a significant paradigm shift in how we approach design, through transformative embodied experiential theories and practices, potentially helping us identify hidden patterns in the complexity of emergent situations.
The Design by Being Lab offers specific embodied intelligence frameworks grounded in research-backed models, drawing from modern neuroscience, quantum field theories, ancient Eastern philosophies, as well as design and systems thinking. This model can improve the co-design process, encouraging a deep and genuine human embodied intelligence approach to design.
We are part of nature in an ongoing process of becoming
Understanding the deep connection between physical sensations, emotional experiences, and cognitive processes, known as embodied intelligence, is thus central to the courage of facing our becoming with our whole being. This approach helps experience the design process as the alive, active process of our becoming, to move beyond thinking to reflect through inner knowing.
Embodied Intelligence Practices
Guided Practices
We use an embodied intelligence framework that presents a clear model that defines how the experience of embodied intelligence moving through space activates different states of being and informs the interaction within the inner and the outer systems.
State of Presence
We navigate, explore and make sense by being fully present in all dimensions in the here and now. We embody the interaction and the design process, fostering creativity, well-being, and systemic change.
Conscious Creative Design Process
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Practical Methods
Experience practical methods for harnessing the awareness that helps to tackle the “stuckness” and safely move into the dynamics of the process.
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Inventive Ideas
Generate new solutions through embodied practices that can help enhance our dynamic systems and be regeneratve and sustainable.
Key Takeaways
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Insights
Explore and Gain insights into Embodied Intelligence frameworks.
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Skills
Incorporate an Embodied Intelligence Change Process into Collaborative, Empathic Co-Design phases and Systems change practices.
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Strategies
Apply practical strategies and make sense by being fully present in all dimensions in the here and now, in personal and professional contexts.
Lab Duration
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In-Person
1 Month, 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
or 1-week Intensive, 3 hours a day.
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Online
1 Month, 4 live interactive online sessions, 2 and ½ hours a week.
Target Audience
Team leaders seeking empathic collaboration and a clear design like body/mind frame for innovation.
Creatives, designers, architects, researchers, and scientists seeking a new approach and inspiration.
Systems thinkers who want to assess/map a complex system holistically.
Testimonial/Reflection on a Design by Being Lab practice experience:
"The way this practice layers the wisdom of embodied states is brilliant. I am so tired of being in my head so I was eager to get in my body and familiarize myself with each dimension of embodied states. After a few passes being in each embodied mode, helped me know the pieces that were stuck. With the support of the dynamic framework I was allowed to navigate with curiosity and I was able to be with the “stuckness” and gently move with more fluidity with my body-mind-consiousness, finding new pathways, grounded in the experience of the present moment.
Formulating these embodied movements, together in this theory and practice offer a powerful playground for setting one's own free of the trap of the rational mind in a safe way." Dounia Saeme.- Moving from reformation to regeneration.
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