Finding Your Purpose Through Ikigai (PCH #2)

Personal Experimentation

Hosted at Rotterdam Collective (September 4, 2018)

Participants: Pop-Up Creativity Hub community

Content

• Presentation 1: Running away with the circus, by Harm van der Laan from Tall Tales Acrobatics
• Presentation 2: Building the Time-Traveling Experience, by Cesar Coll
• Ikigai workshop

You can access the session slides here.

Ikigai workshop timeline

The Ikigai tool was first presented on the book “Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life” by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles. Based on this tool, Pop-Up Creativity Hub defined a series of creatives exercises to facilitate anyone to successfully map-out the tool.

The adapted Ikigai tool template, as well as the Ikigai workshop timeline, are available for anyone to use as long as credits are given to Pop-Up Creativity Hub. For any questions or remarks, please contact the PCH team here.

The workshop program was as follows:

Exercise 1: What are you good at? (10 min)

1. Think of things you’re good at. Think inside and outside of your work and at different levels (emotional, social, functional)
2. Write them down on the “What you’re good at” area of the Ikigai

Examples: giving people advice, listening to people, executing workshops, visual design

Exercise 2: What do you love? (10 min)

1. Think of things you love, that you don’t necessarily need to be good at them
2. Write them down on the “What you love” area of the Ikigai

Think of things that make you enter ”the flow”, that moment you’re enjoying so much and are so focus you don’t even notice time passing by

Exercise 3: Which things overlap? (5 min)

1. Do you have something that you both love doing and you’re good at it?
2. Write them on a post-it and place it on the “Passion” area of the Ikigai

Strategy 1: For those you love but you are not good at yet… (10 min)

1. How could you get better at them?
2. Ideate solutions to achieve mastering that thing you love
3. Write them on a post-it and place it outside the “Passion” area

Examples: taking courses, asking someone for mentorship

Strategy 2: For those that you love and are good at… (10 min)

1. Does the world need it? If yes, how? Make it specific. If not, how could you make the world benefit from it? Ideate solutions
2. Write them as an action to take / thing to do, e.g. Passion: being positive > Giving trainings /consulting for happiness and wellbeing
3. Write them on a post-it and place it outside the “What the world needs” area

Strategy 3: For those that you love, are good at, and can benefit the world… (10 min)

Are they something you can be paid for?

1. If yes: Place them on the center of the Ikigai
2. If not: How can you make money with it? Ideate solutions and place them outside the “What you can be paid for” area

Thanks again to the engagement and the energy from all participants and for the amazing ideas that came out of the workshop.

Stay tuned to more sessions by joining PCH’s meetup group here 💡

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