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What happens in liminal spaces? Doubt, discomfort, unfamiliarity, anxiety. But also growth, change, and discovery. Liminal spaces offer all of the ingredients for creativity.

Ness Labs • Liminal Creativity

Liminal creativity can help carve a path from disorientation to discovery, from uncertainty to curiosity, from fear to innovation. It can turn scary situations into transformational experiences of self-discovery and self-authorship. In fact, life itself is a liminal space between birth and death.

Ness Labs • Liminal Creativity

Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, “threshold”) is the ambiguity that emerges in the middle of a fundamental transition. Liminality is the “in-between”, where the space and the participants no longer hold their past status, but have not yet fully transformed to their post-transition self.

Ness Labs • Liminal Creativity

You feel truly connected to the world and to a sense of home. New ideas come from being in this place. On the deepest level, this zone is a spiritual place. We meet the spiritual world most immediately through our relationships to others.

Phil Stutz • Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

supports quiet warmth and relaxation that extends to suffuse the entire body and beyond. It beautifies what is experienced, and it influences how we relate to what happens next.

Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out

We exist today in the liminal space between the material and mediated, present when absent, absent when present.
Superbloom

When we find ourselves in the in-between spaces, the liminal space, our task is to be mindful of suspending judgment, keeping our options open and enabling action that allows novelty to emerge and patterns to stabilize.

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Ness Labs • Liminal Creativity

Ness Labs • Liminal Creativity

Ness Labs • Liminal Creativity

Ness Labs • Liminal Creativity

Phil Stutz • Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out

Boudewijn Bertsch • Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making Into the Fabric of Our World ED02