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Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 18:33:12 +0000

The River People: 2007 – 2013

As artistic director, writer and producer for The River People I had a great deal of creative input and also oversaw the logistics of creating and touring several productions both […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:20:28 +0000

This is a blog that I have kept since the beginning of my research project, it shows the journey I have taken with my ideas and the actions I have performed along the way to test them. All my posts are all […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:22:19 +0000

On 24th October 2022 I travelled to Hastings once again to run a workshop for the charity Care For The Carers. This was arranged with James Baker who runs the mental health team, he was a stakeholder that I met […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 12:30:24 +0000

It’s been lovely to have these past few weeks to reflect, take a tutorial, work on some reflective exercises and do some research. I feel like I’ve managed to get a good amount of perspective on the work I’ve […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 18:28:53 +0000

After many weeks of work, last weekend I attended Camp Bestival with the latest incarnation of my project, now called The Story Chapel. I wanted to construct a secular sacred space that people can use for a […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Mon, 30 May 2022 20:58:29 +0000

This past few weeks I have been struggling with the project. I have been making a series of prototypes for potential craft workshops at Camp Bestival, and each attempt has been met with failure. Each time I think […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Mon, 23 May 2022 11:34:56 +0000

It’s been a few weeks since my last intervention and I’ve had some distance from the project in order to reflect. I have an opportunity on the horizon that will allow me to present the project at Camp Bestival as […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:38:26 +0000

After doing some background reading into Action Research I realise that I am not managing to gather a lot of useful data. I could also do with showing the project to some more professional stakeholders to […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:54:13 +0000

It has been an intense couple of weeks but I managed to get everything together in time to attend the Men’s Mental Wellbeing Festival in Hastings. It was great to be invited back and have another chance to […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 23:13:53 +0000

After a long time spent experimenting with different ideas for a new format for the archetypes its been starting to feel like I should pick a format to try out in a test, like its time to pull the trigger. […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:21:57 +0000

I have recently completed an exercise set by my tutor, to create a personal timeline of all the significant events in my life. It has given me a lot to reflect on. I started by listing everything out in […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 20:28:56 +0000

After a very restful Christmas period I have picked up the project where I left off: Planning the next intervention. The trouble is I am not sure what exactly the next intervention is to be, for the past 6 weeks […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:47:53 +0000

I met a brilliantly useful stakeholder in Emma Connor, a Child Psychotherapist for Your Space Therapies (https://yourspacetherapies.org). She specialises in helping young children who have experienced trauma, she […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:10:04 +0000

I find myself entering a period of rumination on what how the project should develop next. I’ve managed to surmise the key points of learning from the last interventions:- Build a structure to house the library.- […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 15:20:33 +0000

Last week I took The Library of Meaning to Hastings Library as part of Men’s Mental Health Day, run by Mind Charity. It was the first time presenting the Library to the general public, away from the supportive […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:27:32 +0000

Preparation for the next intervention: 430 archetype cards added to the library

My last intervention filled me with enthusiasm and energy to carry the project forward. I have another intervention coming up in […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:35:10 +0000

I have been feeling compelled to construct a booklet that helps to illuminate my project and illustrate the thinking behind it. I have always been interested in producing books that are a combination of graphic […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 10:40:09 +0000

This weekend I staged the first proper intervention for my project: The Library of Meaning. It was held at a scratch afternoon in a woodland owned by my friends. The attendees were a mix of people I know and […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Sun, 26 Sep 2021 12:13:54 +0000

The craft mission so far

Before I can consider how to create The Bardo experience mentioned in my previous post, I think I have to construct the foundation stones for the project: The Archetypes.

I am in […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 21:18:17 +0000

Picture by Antony Gormley

In Tibetan Buddhism, The Bardo is the place where souls go between death and re-birth. A liminal state where one undertakes karmic trials that are generated from one’s life on e […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:26:19 +0000

Just some thoughts regarding…

How to teach The Art of Being Human

The Academy of Subtle Magic

A school that explores the magic nature of human beingsThat teaches how creativity is a magic […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:57:52 +0000

From my intervention I learnt that everyone has a story, and to a greater or lesser extent they are aware of a framework of meaning that they have used to navigate their journey, wether consciously or […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 20:59:28 +0000

“How can we create. and facilitate human connection in order to improve mental health and wellbeing?”

I no longer feel that my research question is able to drive my project forward. It is too general. I feel […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:20:52 +0000

My wagon (centre) in the convoy leaving for the festival

It’s been an eventful summer, coming out of lockdown into festival season was somewhat challenging, but attending Camp Bestival Festival at the end of […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:16:07 +0000

I’ve been hoping to have some conversations with people around the theme of connection; what it means to people and how they find it. Initially I thought I would simply hand out my flyers and that would encourage […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 09:31:20 +0000

My thinking has been heavily influence by The Gift by Lewis Hyde, using literature, anthropology and psychology he explores how the nature of giving a gift can bring us vitality and community.

“The daily […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 10:38:22 +0000

I will be hand making a small flyer containing information about the project and a request for individuals to share their experiences of human connection.

I plan to hand these out to friends and […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 12:47:16 +0000

Cave paintings from Cueva de las Manos (Cave of the Hands), Argentina, created around 7,000 BC

Inspired by the first recorded works of art, The Open Hand Project is an exploration of human connection, […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Sun, 06 Jun 2021 19:49:32 +0000

The open hand of a human, from the Chauvet Cave, France. Created approximately 36,000 years ago

The hand is among the first images our species created. It is a gesture of greeting, of openness, of […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Thu, 20 May 2021 20:11:47 +0000

“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at it’s height. Live in fragments no longer.”- E.M Forster, Howards […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Thu, 06 May 2021 19:08:05 +0000

I have just finished reading A Replacement for Religion by The School of Life, there are lots of helpful thoughts in it to guide my project. Firstly it identifies the beneficial elements of religion that we have […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Sat, 01 May 2021 18:14:11 +0000

Inspired by the practical philosophy described in Street Wisdom I decided to take myself on a flaneur, to hold the question of “What can I explore for my project” as I walk and look to the reciprocity of the […]

Edward Wren commented on the post, One of the oldest speculations about the immortality of the soul, on the site Change Soup

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 16:58:29 +0000

Love this. I often try and keep hold of the thought that human beings are the means by which the universe is becoming aware of itself, like we are all individual little thoughts of some great cosmic consciousness.

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 16:42:35 +0000

Over the past week or two my mind has been almost constantly working, trying to think my way forward with my project, in the spirit that a problem shared is a problem halved I resolved to have a chat here to try […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 10:39:19 +0000

This has been a challenging project for me, but my initial work from previous projects had left me with a few threads to follow, these were; the ability of ritual to create meaning, the power of storytelling, and […]

Edward Wren wrote a new post on the site Numinous Reciprocity - A reflective journal

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:48:11 +0000

Numinous – Having a strong spiritual quality, suggesting the presence of divinity.

Reciprocity – The practise of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit

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