What is it a creative gym? This is the place where you start exercising your creative muscles.
What can you do here? The mother of all exercises is direct experience. This is what the creative gym offers.
What? This month it is about Conflicts, so you’ll experience how they work and their potential.
The most important lesson from the story of Lake Titicaca is that clearly explaining your point of view in a conflict is as important as listening carefully to what the other has to say.
When you don’t listen in a conflict it is because a wide range of emotions clouds you. This is natural, however, it can keep you with both feet in the same conflict for a long time.
Your emotions are legitimate and deserve a space, however, not all the space in the conflict.
I invite you to step out of the conflict, set aside your interest and your point of view. Let the emotions rest for a little while as you observe the situation with fresh eyes and from the outside.
Hopefully from this perspective you can see more of the picture painted by the other side of the conflict. Maybe you will even understand the other side, see their point.
This is the balancing act.
The conflict surely looks and feels different from this new perspective. This is an important first step. Maybe it is all it takes to solve the conflict.
Lara Briozzo Jagersma
