AmCoaches Association and MCDA presented: The Great Masters of Art Reveal

[ahka]

In the past few weeks, there have been so many different events and things that I wanted to write about.  I am getting overwhelmed and sad that I wouldn't be able to cover all of it.  So, I will mention a few things to remember for .myself. 

There was an event by American Coaches Association  The Great Masters of Art Reveal the Secrets to a New Paradigm:  Navigating Change at Midlife and Beyond.  It was presented by Fred Mandell.  It was an interesting presentation.  I really liked one exercise that we did.  We were given a copy of a horse drawing and we had to copy it onto our big pieces of paper with a black chuck.  The drawing of the horse was supposed to be upside down. 

I had a limiting belief that I can not draw at all.  I always believed that my mind and hand coordination for drawing are absolutely not coordinated, however, this exercise proofed me wrong!  I copied the horse and it really looked like a horse on the original drawing.  It was a wonderful aha moment for me.  Also, Dr. Mandell kept showing us that at any age we need to challenge and reinvent ourselves.  DO NOT stuck with doing things the same way, walking the same routes buying the same foods.

During that workshop I was seating at the table with a few people who attended my MCDA session during Spring Conference.  They recognized me and told me that they really liked my session.  It was nice to hear and it also felt  weird. 

Comments

[i12bmore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a classic exercise. It challenges you to draw what you see, rather than drawing what you think you're supposed to see. The brain takes the upside-down image out of the usual context of "horse" and converts it into just shapes, which is how to draw to begin with, to draw shapes.

[agusovsky.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was a pretty cool exercise :) maybe I should take some drawing lessons to expend my horizons?!