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Deep Dive Session

DD-004 - Mindful Movement and the Creative Process: Applying Feldenkrais Techniques for Landscape Architects

3.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL

Lead Speaker(s)

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  Anita Bueno, ASLA

  Landscape Architect and Feldenkrais® Practitioner
  Bueno Movement & Design

Speaker(s)

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  Tara McIntire

  Senior Landscape Architect
  Marin County Parks

When faced with designer’s block or working on a tight deadline, how can you tap into your most creative self? Explore new strategies for finding your creative flow state using mindfulness and gentle movement based on the Feldenkrais Method®. Harness your innate neuroplasticity while also preventing burnout and stress-related illness.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the latest brain research on creativity and the neurological links between creativity and movement.
• Discover how to access the links between thought and movement and apply the Feldenkrais Method® to the creative process.
• Reveal your individual hidden habits that may be unknowingly limiting you as a creative designer.
• Explore new personal strategies for accessing your creativity on demand.
• Learn how to harness the power of constraints to expand divergent thinking.
• Explore tools and strategies to improve physical and mental wellness and reduce office burnout and stress-related illnesses.