Listening

  • Silence

    Silence Before the intensive week in Iceland teachers and master students from the Iceland University of the Arts prepared a day of workshops for the other participants. It resulted in three short and open exercises that enabled people to work in an explorative way and to compare different perspectives. The three exercises are Language, Outside and Silence. 10 people…

  • Heated Dialogue

    Heated dialogue In short:  Is it possible to build a safe and brave space with the help of some objects and a set of rules? Will it help the participants to share their opposing opinions on a particular topic in a dialogical manner when they follow the agreed rules for the dialogue? The practice is…

  • Radical listening

    Radical listening “Thinking Where Words are Still Missing”: Radical Listening as a Tool to Promote Creative Thinking and Interactional Self-Reliance Momo’s talent for listening … what Momo was better at than anyone else was listening. Anyone can listen, you may say — what’s so special about that? — but you’d be wrong. Very few people…

  • Socratic Dialogue, Multimodal Version

    Socratic Dialogue, Multimodal Version Purpose: Who with: Variations: Duration: Author: Martijn Boven, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands.

  • Philosophical Inquiry

    Philosophical Inquiry Purpose: Who with: Variations: Duration: Author: Ingimar Olafsson Waage, Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik.

  • Acting Out Discourses

    Acting Out Discourses   Drawing from Articles Purpose: Who with:  

  • Moment(s) of Embodied Reflection, in various locations

    Moment(s) of Embodied Reflection, in Various Locations Background: This method was created for PIMDI intensive week in Kristiansand, April 2022. It is based on work with and for dance and theatre pedagogy MA students at the University of the Arts, Helsinki. It is purposefully guided and formatted in a “supra-subjective” mode, that is, without an…

  • Propositions

    Propositions Background: Propositions comes from a/r/tography , from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada, Senses Sustainability Education. Purpose: Who for: Variations: Helene Illeris and Lisbet Skregelid, a shared teaching practice, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

  • Dancing to Playlist Related to Months 

    Dancing to Playlist Related to Months This method was created for a reflection session that covered the whole academic year. Instructions: Purpose: Who for: Variations: Duration: Author: Eeva Anttila, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland.

  • Walking, Photographing and Recording

    Walking, Photographing and Recording Walking in nature Purpose: Article on the topic coming out later Author: Tormod Anundsen, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

  • Movement Reflection (inspired by the method of Authentic Movement)

    Movement Reflection (inspired by the method of Authentic Movement) Background: Authentic Movement is an approach to creative movement practice (originally known as Movement-in-depth) developed by dancer and Jungian psychologist Mary Starks Whitehouse. Purpose: Who with: Variations: Duration: Author: Liisa Jaakonaho, University of the Arts Helsinki.

  • Check in as Weather Condition

    Name and Weather Condition In the PIMDI intensive week in Iceland, this exercise was done when the group first met together. In a circle, each person takes their turn, saying their name and a weather condition that they relate to or feel that they could embody at that moment. Purpose: Who with: Variations: Duration: Authors:…

  • See and hear each other: The Museum of Sounds

    See and hear each other: The Museum of Sounds In short    It is a short exercise on listening to each other; listening to each other’s meaningful sounds and creating together a multi-voiced choir. Set-Up   Half an hour; if you want the subgroups to present their museum of sound to each other you will need more…

  • Workshop at the Elia conference

    Workshop at the Elia conference   This workshop, Imaginative dialogue with your own voices and the voices of the other was developed by Nathalie Beekman and Gudrun Beckmann for the ELIA conference in Brussel, February 2022. It is an experiment in 4 steps, based on ideas and first findings of the PIMDI project. Preparation You…

  • Listening Drawing, Talking about ‘A meaningful place’ 

    Listening Drawing, Talking about ‘A meaningful place‘ In short   For this workshop, I combined the exercise of Radical Listening with a drawing exercise. Couples tell each other about a meaningful place. Afterward, they visualize what they have heard from their peer. New meaningful places emerge from radically listening to each other.   ——— Inspired by…

  • Walk: Detour 

    Walk: Detour In short These exercises are done in pairs. Once the participants understand the process, the exercise is executed in silence.   Process  

  • Language  

    Language Before the intensive week in Iceland teachers and master students from the Iceland University of the Arts prepared a day of workshops for the other participants. It resulted in three short and open exercises that enabled people to work in an explorative way and to compare different perspectives. The three exercises are Language, Outside…

  • Rythm of the heart 

    Rythm of the Heart In short   PIMDI students presentation from the Helsinki Intensive week in 2021 that describes encounters with elderly people in care homes. Description   Musician, dancer and visual artist trio invited the participants to listen, respond and move to the rhythm of their bodies. Students wanted to build a loose frame around…

  • Listening walk

       Listening walk In short   A prerequisite of any dialogue, hence also the imaginative dialogue, is the sensitivity of listening. This is an exercise where the participants share their choice of place and a poem in their own language. The participants make recordings of their exploration and reading of the poem. Each participant is conscious…