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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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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