The Lily and the Billabong
Provider:
Course Code:
V8
CRICOS Code:
NA
Qualification Level:
Short Course
Course Area:
Creative Arts
Duration:
1-Month
Study Mode:
Part Time, Full Time
Location:
New South Wales (Pyrmont)
Course Fee:
$55 Per Course
Delivery Mode:
Online Delivery
Target:
Domestic, International
Intake:
Flexible Intakes
Course Overview
The Lily & the Billabong is a personal journey, a deep dive to the depth of your imagination. Via visual art, visualisation and mindfulness, participants are invited to explore themselves.
The program helps imagineers' reach the flow state while developing an understanding of "unfocused attention" so that it can be achieved more often. Consider this program adult "PLAY". Learning through PLAY
provides opportunities discover, create, improvise and this strengthen our capacity to imagine.
Course Structure
The ability to switch between focused and unfocused attention is an important skill for the development of creativity. This project gives you an opportunity to reach a state of flow, it is a mindful practice using visual art to connect with your imagination. Anyone can do this program without any previous visual art schooling.
Sensory perception is also a key parameter for the development of imagination, as is symbolism and metaphor. Dorsey Smith, Aboriginal artist illustrates and recontextualises these possibilities within this course.
We need to find time to give our brains a pause. If our minds are constantly processing information, we never get a chance to let our our imagination develop. V8_The Lily and the Billabong is an opportunity for you to engage in a non-process-driven mindful practice - or unfocused attention. Consider it “play” for adults.
Career Opportunities
This program is for anyone, in any field or area seeking to develop more critical and creative thinking foundations.