Education : The Curated Life Project™
What?
The Curated Life Project™ explores questions around personal-reflection and personal-expression. Who am I? How do we think about our conscious-experience? What is it to express what we find? What happens when our personal expression is made public? What is our personal legacy?
We care about your self-reflection, self-expression, self-curation and legacy creation.
Personal-expression and personal-reflection, are as relevant in the digital age as they were when Buddha discussed ‘atman’ and ‘anatta’ and the Ancient Greek sages advocated people ‘know thyself’. In the age of Chat GPT and Threads, ideas around fake self and authentic self, or public self and private self, take on a new and fascinating dimension. The Curated Life Project™ laboratory talks to the challenges and possibilities of self-reflection and self-expression. It speaks to anatomizing the issues in modern personal-examination and personal-expression.
Educational Outreach Programme / Artful self-reflection for all & safeguarding personal legacies
Our focus is to bring the many benefits of artful self-reflection and self-expression to a diverse range of communities.
We want everyone to gain from, for example, free journal-writing techniques and from informed self-presentation on social media.
We are co-producing with schools, FE, and HE, upgraded digital safeguarding policies. We will also be providing a set of self-reflection and digital expression guidelines, or top tips. These will be co-designed with their target audiences.
We want to work to promote the UN Sustainable Development Goal #3.
Advice & Curated Life Project™ toolkits
We offer advice on developing and safeguarding self-reflective practices and self-expression, on line or off. Your self-expression has a legacy. It is worth nurturing. There are no answers or perfect results here. But, the path of self-expression and self-awareness is well-trodden and its many travellers have left us a rich heritage. Mastering one’s consciousness, life, enjoyment, self-reflection and self-expression may not be problems to solve, rather explorations to have.
Working closely with diverse communities of young adults, The Curated Life Project™ produces – in conversation with its beneficiaries – inspiring, dynamic, high-quality suites of tailor-made tools for self-reflection and self-expression.
The Curated Life Project™ toolkits enable and empower their clients and beneficiaries. The toolkits are designed to be self-sustaining and include evidence-based approaches to artful personal-reflection and personal-expression.
The toolkits draw on key questions and routes of inquiry; techniques from process-recording; empirically-tested diary-writing and journal-writing techniques; key principles from numerous psychological methods, such as A.C.T. or C.B.T.; and insights from Global philosophies, spiritual and life-writing practices, neuroscience and neurobiology.
Curated Life Project™ toolkits are not static or fixed. They are not cures, or even plasters, but a range of approaches addressing issues of self-expression and self-reflection. These issues are put under a particular type of pressure in an age where most people engage in daily practices of self-publication.
Why?
Your self-reflection (on-line and off) has present and future value. It means something. It matters how you know yourself and how you express yourself. Your personal expression is part of your personal legacy, it is worth safeguarding and examining.
Taking care of your self-reflection and self-expression can support enhanced well-being and life-satisfaction, including and not limited to:
Increased facility for self-centering, pausing, and artful self-care;
Improved self-knowledge, including knowledge of personal values, morals, opinions, goals, achievements, desires, and aversions;
Enhanced definition of meaning and purpose;
Enhanced identification of character facets;
Enhanced identification with character facets that support and nurture positive living;
Advanced self-care through self-knowledge;
Enhanced skills with which to navigate one’s public image and personas, on-line and off;
Improved emotional regulation;
Improved communication;
Improved decision-making skills;
Improved relationships;
Improved self-esteem;
Improved job satisfaction;
Improved leadership skills;
Improved professional awareness;
Improved boundary setting;
Improved writing skills;
Improved authenticity of voice.