KENNETH BALFELT TEAM
Trivsel til kreativitet på Århus Kunstakademi
For The Aarhus Academy of Fine Arts
Team: Kenneth Balfelt
2022
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Togetherness exercise
In October 2022, I conducted a 2-week guest teacher course for the students with the theme: Stress in society and our conditions for being able to work focused and present.
They started by taking a stress test (PSS), which showed that 51% of the students had mild to high stress levels.
I challenged both the students to make art about stress (materialization) and develop their way of working.
The course was developed along the way and included among other things:
- Lectures on stress and how to relieve it
- Retreat day - silence all day - practicing presence and focus and being together in silence)
- Body awareness exercise
- Landing at the start of the day and meetings in the form of a short group meditation and a group conversation about energy and stress levels
- Half-day mindfulness walk in the forest with exercises that provided inputs and insights into own art projects
- Sparring group meeting for students
- Lecture and exercise on how to talk respectfully about each other's art to allow creativity to flourish
- Introduction and practice in restorative work methods from the Meeting Guide
- Mindful walk in the city in small groups -- mindfulness practice and practicing being together in silence
General rules were:
- No screens and cell phones during working hours - only possibly 13-14 for research
- Monotasking - i.e. we do one thing at a time.
- Work in 25-45 min slots with one recovery in the slot and one intermezzo between slots - both from the meeting guide
Evaluation
The evaluation of the program showed that 79% had increased their presence, 48% had increased job satisfaction and 66% had gained effective tools to reduce their stress.
