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Join Shelly Vils Havel and Rich Gassen from CSN as we explore some topics from the book Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose by Martha Beck. We will not provide a book, but will share all materials needed for this conversation ahead of time.
All over the world, anxiety is skyrocketing, topping every other form of discontent as the most frequently diagnosed psychological affliction. In Beyond Anxiety, Dr. Martha Beck explains why this is happening around you, and why it is likely to be happening within you. She tells you how to not only reduce your anxiety, but use it to propel you into a life filled with peace, meaning, and joy.
We will touch on Beck’s topics like the “anxiety spiral,” a feedback system that can increase anxiety indefinitely. To keep from sliding back into anxiety, we must engage different parts of our nervous system—the parts involved in creativity. Beck describes a “creativity spiral” that, like the potential for anxiety, is built into our brains. Martha says creativity can applied in everything we do: dancing, painting, and writing, yes, but also parenting, leading, dressing, cooking, conversing, solving problems, moving through the world, and everything in between.
We’ll also look for “Squirrel Passions” – topics that fascinate us so much, the more we learn about it, the more we want to keep learning—like a dog relentlessly chasing a squirrel. These are the things in our lives that, when engaging in them, put us in a state of flow where we forget time and our worries, only focusing on the squirrel.
This 75-minute session will be interactive; there will be some short pre-session reading, and we’ll work on some exercises during our time together. Please register if you can set aside other commitments and truly engage with us for the meeting.
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Rich Gassen (rich.gassen@wisc.edu)
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