Wild Goose

Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/   Creative Tensions is an interactive dialogue, a physically active, collective conversation where participants indicate where they stand on a question or issue by the place they stand in the room. Instead of the audience watching a speaker or panel discuss a topic, the Creative Tensions format invites the entire audience into the conversation, through movement. An interactive way to approach group conversation, Creative Tensions is a method for inclusive conversation and a way to show both where our differences and similarities lie but with specificity and nuance. Creative Tensions prompts reflection, invites openness, and celebrates the rare moment when someone changes their mind. Most importantly it stokes curiosity, promotes optimism, and inspires real empathy in participants. The way we practice it, we start in large room with a line down the middle, separating it in two parts. Everyone is standing while the moderator