Speaker
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Lisa NortonLisa Norton is an Uncertainty Sherpa – a guide to creatively flourishing in uncertainty. She hosts the Uncertainment Lounge, a virtual collective space for sensing and embracing the unknown and unknowable as a path to knowing. Previous experience includes decades of generative inquiry with artists, designers and technologists at the School of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her coaching and consulting is focused on life practices and circadian biological health.
Got Uncertainty?
Now that uncertainty is our new planetary normal, what is it like to relate to it with ever greater intimacy?
Uncertainment Lounge is not a relativistic refuge from truth-seeking or certainty, nor a panacea, or a therapy, but rather a practice space for embodied participatory knowing. Practicing together in/as the polarity of knowing and not-knowing builds capacity to turn toward the unknowable, the uncontrollable, and the mysterious as they emerge within and between us in real time.
Uncertainment Lounge has no agenda other than sensing and participating with/as dimensions of uncertainty. As with any collective inquiry, we don’t know where we’re heading, and we don’t rely on maps. We explore our real-time state experiences, befriending the generative tensions that arise, without collapsing into consensus or cliché. We gently relax the one who knows everything there is to know about uncertainty in order to meet ourselves anew.
This event is free and open to all.
Testimonial:
“Lisa Norton is an uncertainty sherpa for the Meta Modern age! She seems to transcend and include the current, Critical Theory informed designerly ecology by integrating a transdisciplinary ontology that spans from Quantum to arts practice and everything in between. With multi-lingual fluency she pierces both mind AND heart to expand our receptive capacities, stretching us through design into emergent territory so that we may better understand the impulse to discover, make, unmake and remake this – our unfolding human story.”
– Susanna Carman, Strategic Designer and Creator of Transition Leadership LAB