Aesthetic Paths to Flourishing: Exploring and Creating Expressions of Beauty

Introduction

We are affected by the world around us as we experience it through our bodily senses. This course is designed to teach the importance of aesthetic experience for our personal well-being, drawing from ideas and research from philosophy, art, and science. We look at ancient and recent wisdom to find and learn habits that can increase our capacity to engage with beauty.

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Bringing decades of experience, we invite you to join us for this course aimed to help you think, act, and express yourself more creatively and aesthetically. We guide you through an exploration of ideas and practices to help you flourish through aesthetics.

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This hands-on course provides both learning and discussion moments as well as facilitation exercises geared toward enabling you to create your own expressions. Creative activities encourage curiosity and cultivate an aesthetic sensibility as a way to see the world from a fresh perspective.

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Aesthetic experience is a basic human drive, and this unique course guides you to become more proactive in shaping your aesthetic future.

This Course Aims To

In this course, we help reorient you toward the importance of aesthetic experience, showing how it makes your life more meaningful, vibrant, and fulfilling. We guide you to become more aware of your own aesthetic preferences, sensibilities, and expressions. Aesthetic experiences can help lower stress, increase positive emotions and mindfulness, stimulate innovative thinking, deepen social bonds, and boost your personal development and performance, which is part of why it is extremely valuable for our lives.

Course Outline

• Session One: 3/11/2024, 10:00-12:00 (EST)
• Session Two: 17/11/2024, 10:00-12:00 (EST) 

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Course Leaders

• Bella Zhang - Organisational Consultant, Arts-Based Facilitator & Coach, Creative Artist, Yoga & Mindfulness Instructor
• Michael R. Spicher, PhD - Speaker, Philosopher, Writer, Consultant

Course Enrolment

• General Admission - 890 SEK  ($85, €77)
• EarlyBird - 790 SEK ($75, €68, register before 30th September 2024) ​

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Pricing Notice:

The prices listed are primarily in Swedish Krona (SEK). For your reference, approximate prices in US Dollars ($) and Euros (€) are also provided. Please note that these reference prices are based on the general international exchange rate. The actual prices in SEK may vary according to the real-time exchange rate at the time of purchase. For the most accurate pricing, please refer to the current exchange rate applicable at the moment of your transaction.

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Registration CLOSES on 20th October

Limited spots are available.

Please sign up and complete the online payment before the course.

Note: The workshop must meet the minimum participant requirement. If this requirement is not met, the workshop will regrettably be canceled. In such an event, we will inform you before 21st October 2024.