The Way of Nowhere: Eight Questions to Release Our Creative Potential

The Way of Nowhere: Eight Questions to Release Our Creative Potential
Nick Udall

Nic Turner

The Way of Nowhere is a business book by the UK’s hottest change management consultancy who have led transformations in some of Britain’s biggest and best known organisations. An invaluable resource for anyone who wants to make a creative difference in their lives and the lives of people around them.Inspired by the unique practice of 'nowhere', a community of companies that specialise in co-creation, this is an inspirational book that will help you break through to a more creative and strategic futureRenowned for their world-class approach to innovation, the nowhere group works with a wide range of businesses, government agencies and individuals to develop their creativity to its full potential. Now, their book maps out the groundbreaking ways that anyone can become more productive, playing a more creative role in your organisation while simultaneously nurturing your own growth along the way.It contains eight breakthrough questions designed to stimulate and enrich our creative capacity, both as an individual and as part of a team. Using examples and tools from their work with some of the UK’s largest and best known businesses, The Way of Nowhere shows us how to unlock the underlying and invisible forces at play within organisations, communities and cultures.With practice, you will discover how these questions and insights can release the latent creativity that exists within - a place where magic can happen - out of nowhere!

the Way of

8 questions to

release my creative potential

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Welcome

Welcome to our quest.

It is a quest to unlock the creative potential of people and their organizations.

Over the last 12 years this quest has given us the opportunity to work all over the world with some amazing people and organizations. It has been a rollercoaster ride – and continues to be, as we tap into both ancient and modern wisdom traditions.

Along the way we have learned that it is not answers but questions that unlock our creative potential. Therefore the Way ofnowhere is a book of questions. Within and between these questions lie insights. When put together in inspiring and innovative ways, these questions, and the insights they hold, have the power to transform.

We invite you to hold these questions in your mind, to work with them, so you too can discover their magic.

making a choice

We reach choice points all the time in our lives. These can be relatively minor – tea or coffee? – or relatively major – marriage or divorce?

You have presumably made a choice in buying this book. You now need to make another: Where should I begin?

releasingmycreative potential

This half of the book works with questions that are designed to unlock the consciousness and creativity of individuals. It looks at ways in which we can catalyze breakthrough in ourselves and others, thereby becoming the inspiration and innovation we want to be in the world.

releasingourcreative potential

This half of the book works with questions that are designed to unlock the creative and collective potential of organizations. It looks at ways in which we can transcend our organizational limitations and inspire breakthrough innovations within our organizations and through our organizations into the world.

There is no right or wrong way of entering this book.

You are currently starting this book from a personal perspective. We offer you this page so you can pause for a moment and make a conscious choice as to the best way in for you.

Both ways lead to the Way ofnowhere.

contents

Title Page (#u274bc072-4074-5735-8db9-1c879c9204ca)

Copyright (#u0d01ee2c-50f7-59f9-ae55-9856ff548901)

releasing my creative potential

the practice wheel of inspiring-innovation (#u2d12b3c4-ce59-52da-a8c2-ee7ce15da740)

a beginning (#u6448cb40-617e-5c49-b916-5041d7da5c6b)

our quest (#u0fa25fad-1d49-53e0-89fc-589f5fc4ab9b)

a book of breakthrough questions (#u00246803-3ec0-5960-bfe6-e518d8a04cb5)

inspiring-innovation: a personal practice (#u67c35241-a875-5165-a094-ad5619222c9c)

wheels (#u49affcbd-c97a-5133-9ed4-91bb06cc9470)

how to use the wheel (#u76fb8de4-8c27-547b-a53b-2ad927a6544f)

the 8 questions (#u3d8e4f44-8ef0-5e22-87c0-146791f40f12)

ewhat is my unique purpose…? (#u302f2c36-61cc-56b2-9be1-0c0bf8b7d247)

se how am I releasing the magic of the moment…? (#u9d354013-c884-55c0-8c69-7ee9df5bb176)

show am I venturing into uncertainty…? (#uc8c0d840-54bf-59c6-ba2c-c7820c190998)

sw how am I focusing the power of my intent…? (#litres_trial_promo)

whow am I supporting growth…? (#litres_trial_promo)