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The Sussex School of Imaginal Ecology is a small hedge school based in Stanmer- one dedicated to the arts and ecopsychology. Located in Stanmer Park, its philosphical principles are rooted in imaginal ecology - that we have lost touch with a proper understanding and practice of the imagination and that this is central for the redemption of culture, psyche and self.With that lost, we lose touch with the deeper beauty and reality of the living world.
Our days combine seminars, discussion, experiential learning, creative practice and communal reflection. We hold a space that offers a chance to make you think, stimulate creativity and reflect together. Communitas, veritas, poesis.
Our introductory class is called “THRESHOLD”. The imagination is a liminal space - a paradoxical space that is both between and within. Each time we create we cross a threshold into the imaginal. Thresholds abound in the mythic imagination - a dark hole in an gnarled wet tree, a sky coloured gateway that stretches up into the clouds, a wardrobe in a quiet room that has no back.
Thresholds create containers, and so are a cruicial ingredient in the observation that art as ritual quality to it. Therefore, paying attention to thresholds allow us to start to make art that can be transformational rather than entertaining. It allows us to separate from an overwhelm of images in order to value the ones that matter to us.
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Stanmer Organics, One Garden Brighton Kitchen and Market, Stanmer House, Brighton, BN1 9, United Kingdom
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