The joy of finding better answers
Quest Digest #20 - Creative Quests sign up is flowing, a new definition to try out + brain tingling links to explore.
💡 An upcoming session you can join:
On Weds 19th April at 6pm BST / 1pm EST we are hosting a 45 min virtual session to run through how Creative Quests works, how you can get more involved in our community and hear our vision for the future.
💌 RSVP here for the link.
A week into Creative Quests sign up for May and we’ve already got a global crew gathering 🌐 ❤️
It’s pay what you feel. What is there to lose?
A reminder on how it works.
🕵️ every Quest has a theme.
*the theme remains a mystery till sign up closes.
💭 virtual workshops ft. special guests
⚡️ weekly creative challenges
🌐 a global community hub
📚 a communal journal
👥 meet-ups
You choose the bits of the experience you partake in. Buffet style to fit your creativity.
*Sign up closes 26th April.
💭 A thought from this week….
Dreaded questions. We all have them. The ones you change the conversation to avoid. The ones that leave you tongue tied or squirming out of their grasp as quickly as possible.
What do you do for work? How’s that project of yours going? How’s the family? and other such classics have a real habit of weighing heavy on us.
The truly annoying thing about dreaded questions is that they are usually the ones we most desire a better answer for. It’s not the question that we dread - it’s our response.
There has been a question I have legitimately feared over the last couple of years - and it might surprise you to hear what it is.
🗣 ‘What is Creative Quests?’ 😬
This question has sent shivers down my spine on countless occasions - for the simple reason that it is many things.
It’s a creative practice: based on the idea that spending a month absorbed in a theme will change your perception of the world around you and your creativity.
It’s a community: of people around the world, all exploring themes parallel to each other. Sharing in our learnings along the way.
It’s an experience: that we fill with delightful chances to explore and play alongside fellow Questers
It’s a way of being: that centres curiosity for alternative stories, embracing a beginners mindset and seeing playfulness as an act of resistance.
Most of all: it’s ever-evolving and the experience will be different for every Quester. Intentionally so.
But today… I think I got the closest to describing Creative Quests in a sentence that I have ever gotten and IT FEELS GOOD.
Drum roll please… 🥁🥁🥁
Creative Quests is a collective experience that expands creative potential, remixes inspiration and gives you a framework to fill your life with illuminating new perspectives on the world around you... one theme at a time.
Curious to know - what are your dreaded questions? Let us know in the comments.
A round up of inspiring projects, opportunities & links from our world…
👁🗨 Sam featured on the Creative Status podcast - talking about how to change your creative perception.
🚶🏻♀️ Whatever the problem, it’s probably solved by walking
👟 The Empathy Museum gets you to walk a mile in someones shoes… literally (now in London!)
🌅 This amazing sunrise poolside mix got me through mountains of work over the last month.
🖨 Our friends at Nice and Graphic in London are running printing workshops in their beautiful studio. Highly recommend a visit.
👀 The eye popping new school designed by its pupils
🔨 The Uncomfortable is a collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani
💭 If you have questions or want to know more about Creative Quests - join the call next week! We’d love to meet some more of you and introduce you to The Quest Life
💌 Join our virtual session next Wednesday
That’s all for this week. Stay curious out there.
Love,
Sam x
@saaamfurness
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Love that you’re on Substack now! As a person who often stumbles at the “What do you do?” question, I appreciate the honesty in how challenging it is to put the Quest life into one sentence - bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻