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== Motivation == | == Motivation == | ||
- | [EN] Stress, Burnout, ADD and pathological anxiety attacks are just a few examples of the contemporary malaise of too much work -- too little satisfaction, | + | [EN] Stress, Burnout, ADD and pathological anxiety attacks are just a few examples of the contemporary malaise of too much work -- too little satisfaction, |
- | [NL] Stress, Burn-out, ADD en pathologische angstaanvallen zijn maar enkele voorbeelden van de hedendaagse malaise van te veel werk - te weinig voldoening, te veel informatie - te weinig betekenis. We zijn als samenleving een beetje de kluts kwijt... Wat is er gebeurd met de beloftes dat democratie en technologische innovatie een paradijselijke rechtvaardige samenleving met zich zouden brengen, met een overvloed aan vrije tijd en zelfontwikkeling? | + | [NL] Stress, Burn-out, ADD en pathologische angstaanvallen zijn maar enkele voorbeelden van de hedendaagse malaise van te veel werk - te weinig voldoening, te veel informatie - te weinig betekenis. We zijn als samenleving een beetje de kluts kwijt... Wat is er gebeurd met de beloftes dat democratie en technologische innovatie een paradijselijke rechtvaardige samenleving met zich zouden brengen, met een overvloed aan vrije tijd en zelfontwikkeling? |
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We began Doing Nothing as a formal programme in 2013. Informally, we've been exploring different techniques of being, introspection, | We began Doing Nothing as a formal programme in 2013. Informally, we've been exploring different techniques of being, introspection, | ||
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+ | === Stillness === | ||
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+ | Photographic experiments in ethereality, | ||
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+ | * http:// | ||
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+ | === Futures of Doing Nothing === | ||
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+ | A scenario workshop and series of pre-enactments on [[:/ | ||
=== Naikan === | === Naikan === | ||
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* reflective article by Christina Stadlbauer and FoAM about our experience in 2010: http:// | * reflective article by Christina Stadlbauer and FoAM about our experience in 2010: http:// | ||
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- | The three Naikan questions have since the retreat helped release tensions during conflict situations. | ||
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- | * What have I received from __________ ? | ||
- | * What have I given to __________ ? | ||
- | * What troubles and difficulties have I caused __________ ? | ||
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==== Mindfulness/ | ==== Mindfulness/ | ||
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+ | Links from the online [[Mindfulness Summit]] in October 2015 | ||
==== Karma Yoga ==== | ==== Karma Yoga ==== | ||
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Exercise proposal: Before beginning a meeting, sit together in silence for a few minutes. Become aware of yourself, your moods and expectations. Experience the presence of other people and remind yourself that they might have different moods or expectations, | Exercise proposal: Before beginning a meeting, sit together in silence for a few minutes. Become aware of yourself, your moods and expectations. Experience the presence of other people and remind yourself that they might have different moods or expectations, | ||
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+ | ==== Purposeless walking ==== | ||
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+ | A number of recent books have lauded the connection between walking - just for its own sake - and thinking. But are people losing their love of the purposeless walk? | ||
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+ | ==== Chronesthesia ==== | ||
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+ | This dark network (which comprises regions in the frontal, parietal and medial temporal lobes) is off when we seem to be on, and on when we seem to be off. If you climbed into an MRI machine and lay there quietly, waiting for instructions from a technician, the dark network would be as active as a beehive. But the moment your instructions arrived and your task began, the bees would freeze and the network would fall silent. When we appear to be doing nothing, we are clearly doing something. But what? | ||
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+ | The answer, it seems, is time travel. </ | ||
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+ | From: TIME http:// | ||
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==== Unemployment ==== | ==== Unemployment ==== | ||
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+ | ==== Hannah Arendt on Scholê, in Thinking (The Life of the Mind) ==== | ||
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+ | Wat alle mentale activiteiten gemeen hebben, is de specifieke rust, (...) de terugtrekking uit elk engagement en de opschorting van alle onmiddellijke belangen, die mij partijdig maken en die mij op de een of andere manier deel doen uitmaken van de werkelijke wereld – een terugtrekking waar we eerder naar verwezen (§9, tekst na noot 14), als de eerste vereiste van het oordelen. (...) distantiëring van het doen (130) | ||
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+ | Scholê is niet de vrije tijd zoals wij die verstaan - de niet door activiteit bezette tijd die overblijft na een dag vol van “bezigheden ter vervulling van de levensbehoeften”. Scholê daarentegen is het weloverwogen afzien van, zich onthouden van (schein in het Grieks) de gebruikelijke activiteiten in dienst van onze dagelijkse behoeften (hê tôn anagkaiôn scholê), met de bedoeling ergens rustig de tijd voor te nemen (scholên agein). (...) We hebben hier dus te maken met een weloverwogen, | ||
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+ | ==== Paul Lafargue 'The Right To Be Lazy' ==== | ||
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+ | "And meanwhile the proletariat, | ||
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+ | Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. – Lessing | ||
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+ | ==== Dzabalebariti ==== | ||
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+ | An excellent Balkan word meaning 'doing nothing': | ||
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+ | A competition in lazing around in Monte Negro (the winner managed 37 hours without a toilet break): http:// | ||
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+ | ==== theaternyx* ==== | ||
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+ | "in october 2013 we had a great experience with our colleagues during one week of (nearly) doing nothing. we were creating a design for the week with some simple structures and tools to provide a frame for the group. after a time together in the morning with feldenkrais, | ||
+ | after the walks we were guests at our host's places. also these hosts, sometimes a group, sometimes a single person didn't know what we were exactly up to. the only information given before was, that a group of people will come who will do nothing. and this situation was one of the "big surprises" | ||
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+ | all the people from our group and also our hosts were invited as the entire person they are. we were together not for work, nor to discuss something in particular; not to find anything out, not with a concrete theme or issue and nobody had to be a specialist for whatever … | ||
+ | all the people were asked to be only themselves. they were not asked to participate because of their profession (artist, performer, | ||
+ | and still, in the evenings of those days it felt as if the group had become larger and larger and our experience was that the time together with these people was so inspiring, a respectful learning from each other by doing nothing together." | ||
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+ | Claudia Seigmann, theaternyx* | ||
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+ | ==== Five reasons ==== | ||
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+ | - “Doing nothing” isn’t really doing nothing | ||
+ | - Aimlessness, | ||
+ | - Too much busyness is counterproductive | ||
+ | - The brain depends on downtime | ||
+ | - You’ll regain control of your attention | ||
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+ | ==== Space Out === | ||
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+ | A few weeks ago, on a Sunday afternoon, about 70 people gathered at Ichon Hangang Park in Seoul, South Korea, to do absolutely nothing. There was not a smartphone in sight, no texting or taking selfies, and no one rushing to get anywhere. | ||
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+ | The crowd was taking part in South Korea' | ||
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+ | "I was suffering from burnout syndrome at the time, but would feel extremely anxious if I was sitting around doing nothing, not being productive in one way or another," | ||
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+ | ==== On Agalmic ==== | ||
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+ | Nik Gaffney' |