Learning & Other Fields: Imagination as Inquiry
This is the first session in Learning + [Other Fields], a new series we're testing on what other disciplines and practices can teach us about how we learn.
In this session, Corina Enache takes us into a direct experience of imagination as a practical capacity, a way of entering a question through a different door than the rational one. We work first alone and then together, using art to access what is forming beneath the surface of a question that matters to you right now. The lens is Process Oriented Psychology, developed by Arnold Mindell and extended through Amy Mindell's work on creativity and the Intentional Field. Art, in this framework, is not self-expression and it is not technique. It is a way of becoming receptive so that something real can move through. We use it not to produce something, but to arrive somewhere.
What we'll work on together
You'll strengthen your ability to:
Understand imagination as a mode of knowing, not creativity for its own sake, but a way of reaching what observation and logic cannot
Experience art as a direct method for sitting with a question differently
Connect with whatever speaks to you in the moment, no prior theme or content assigned
See what changes when the same door is opened collectively rather than alone
Begin developing a practice you can return to independently, and adapt for the groups you work with
What you'll walk away with
By the end of the session, you'll have:
A lived experience of imagination as a practical capacity, not just a concept
A first encounter with an art-based practice you can continue using on your own
A new angle on a question you are already carrying
One collective practice you can run with a team, and a sense of when the sequence matters
A shared language with peers about imagination and embodied knowing in L&D work
Logistics
Paper, a pen, and a few coloured markers or pencils. A quiet room where you can speak aloud. Headphones.
Please join from a laptop rather than a phone, you'll need the chat and the small-group rooms.
You do not need to be able to draw. This work is not art in the sense of performance or product, it is a way of knowing. The form matters much less than the message it carries.
About Corina
Corina Enache is an organisational development leader and anthropologist working at the intersection of strategy, culture, and human potential. After a career in international corporate environments — Coca-Cola, Beiersdorf, and Natura — a pivotal encounter with anthropologists in São Paulo led her toward the cultural systems shaping people's lives inside organisations. She holds a Research Master in Social Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam, led OD at Transavia for four years through the COVID crisis, and has since facilitated leadership and team development for organisations including IKEA and Omron. She now leads Kotka, her independent consultancy. Art has been a thread throughout — it is how she thinks, how she researches, and increasingly how she works with others.