5.30 - 7.00pm UTC+1 / BST
To attend, please email melissa@theinterpersonal.com for the zoom link. You don't need to be a member to attend Open Space sessions.
Singing as an Entryway to Healing Epiphanes
In this Open Space, Dr Marjan Timmer invites individual and collective participation as a research community, to experience and then think about some discoveries of her arts-based research on healing epiphanes. A singing experince will be followed by short form of creative writing that captures the felt experience of the singing of any/all singular participants in the session.
Then Marjan will explain the rationale of doing this sort of creative practice in the collective space, as a means to honor the role of playfulness and staying as long as we can in the not knowing space, developing our so-called negative capability to learn something fresh and new (epiphanies - that may subsequently lead to reflection and healing through time and space) by an emphasis on the worth of each individual contribution to a multivocal wider collective of difference and similarities in perspectives of the collaboration.
If there is time, we will finish with a discussion about how this sort of experiential learning through creative practices increase our conscious awareness and enables us to become more fully alive.
BIO
Marjan Timmer is an experienced Executive Coach, OD Consultant and Coach & OD Supervisor and academic researcher / teacher. Her focus is on Leadership Development. Recently she completed her PhD research on the role of art and creativity in leadership during complex change processes. Her work opens surprising and expansive possibilities for people to flourish. By engaging imagination, experimentation, and reflection, Marjan fosters plurality in thought and sensitivity in practice—essential for addressing differences through meaningful dialogue. Marjan offers a sanctuary through her work—a meeting place for reflection and forward-looking action. In doing so, she empowers people in their professional and socially complex environments to continually reimagine both individual and collective purpose in life and work. Since 2020, she has served as a program leader, lecturer, and supervisor at the Center for Executive Coaching at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
