For creativity beginners

What is Prototyping Really?

Did you see my tagline? Yes, the one that says “prototyping dreams!” What do I mean by that? Yeah. I thought the same. I’m sitting in the forest now chewing this same question, trying to

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Why Create? Spice Your Life

Creativity is such a buzzword these days. As a facilitator, I host sessions to help people friend creativity. With this post, I explore my motivation for creating. Why do I create? To me, creativity is

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3 Hats for Dreams Come True

TL;DR This post is about why it is important to practice 3 opposite traits (to feel, think, and do) when working towards dreams. It happens that I have friends in various circles. Some of my

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Storytelling ABC

I attended the Oral Storytelling workshop with a colorful Heidi Dahlsveen last weekend. How was it? Well, imagine 3 days in nature with 15 people and 40 storytelling exercises: solo, in pairs, in the group

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Senses

Often when I don’t understand, when something doesn’t make sense, I don’t feel it yet, and I don’t feel it because I don’t live it, not trying.Say, I walk, and if a walk is too

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Mirror

‘What do you see in front of you? Where do you want to go?’ a typical web training session with my KOKONO clients. What do I see (when bombarded with information)? Where do I want

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Cocoon

give it timefor the quiet cocoon still cracksin silence give it timefor the bird born to sing loudout loud give it timeand cocoonmay givelife to a bird ruta.io

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Water

“Be like water, my friend.” Oh, but what does that mean, dear Bruce Lee? Focus on where water comes from. It rains on the mountains. Many streams form. Many unite and form a river. Then

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For facilitators

Prototyping with Communities

Oh, parallel lives! When I leave my laptop, I dress up like a bird and prototype with communities! Here we’re testing an in-person experience: community storytelling in the hidden places of a touristic town in

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What do Facilitators do?

What does a Facilitator do? I was thinking too! I’m so happy I discovered IAF – Ireland, where we learn together how to facilitate better. In one of the online meetings, I will share an

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Conflicts Have Styles

When it comes to conflict, my habitual response is “let’s solve it”. Over years, I learned to jump into problem solving mentality (ah, thanks to startups!). But this week, I noticed how in deep conflicts

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Thinking with Hands

When I lived in Ireland, I used to facilitate workshops for communities. We called these sessions ‘sprints on local problems’ (from the famous list of Sustainable Development Goals: 17 SDGs). What a drum roll in

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Supergalios

“Fasilitatorius turi pasiimti savo galią: tikslo aiškumas, kodėl mes čia” ir jo siekimas per veiklas, greitas pamatymas, kada reikia keisti eigą ir į kurią pusę. O taip pat refleksija su dalyviais, bet ir su savimi.

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On co-creation

Kas yra Aktyvus Klausymas?

Buvau mokymuose apie Aktyvų Klausymą su Emily Kasriel. Ir suklusau. Išklausius nėra žodžio reikia. Nereikia atsakyti. Oho! Tikrai taip anksčiau nepagalvodavau. O iš kur gi ta intercija kyla? Kad visada reikia atsakyti? Nežinau, gal iš

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Butterfly Effect

After a long pause, I’m reconnecting with communities, online and face-to-face. Seeing people. Weaving those connections and networks, again. And here, the magic of nature was real! Look. Just after a community zoom today, I

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Fruitful Collaborations

I wonder, what glues people together. Why some collaborations work, while others do not? I guess the same things as in any relationships apply. It’s not about the what part like doing things together, but

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Conflicts

What if conflicts are like waste without which an insight wouldn’t arrive? Pause and integration of learnings after conflicts is key.

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Vakuumas

Bendr-auti prasideda kaip ‘bendra’. Tarsi nematomas vakuumas. Jame esame kartu, nuo sekundės, kai prasidėjo mūsų bendra-vimas. Įdomu! Commun-ication sounds like ‘common’, Like vacuum we share. From the moment we started to commun-icate.

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For resting

Regeneration, What?

This post is about how in search of co-existence I discovered a movement of regeneration, which flipped me inside out. If you’re reading this, by now, you should know I love questions. So the third

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Fashion as Social Impact

Fashion is alive; it’s not a thing. Fashion is a performance art happening on the street. I cannot explain what got me so happy and curious about fashion. It’s just one of the few things

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Self-Discovery through Nature

It’s funny. I love exploring so much. Talking when walking, thoughts always jumping! So much excitement that I forget to pause. Until – boom! I notice something. A pattern I haven’t seen before. This autumn,

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Breaks

How to rest… I’m gonna go so. Where is my jacket? The one with cats? Found it. Ok. To town please! Oh winds, noise, hello. I’ve missed you. I hear you. I hear all of

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