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Gustavo

[Q] What’s your name? Hi, nice to meet you, my name is Gustavo Quiroz.

[Q] And what do you do? What’s your profession? Well, professionally I design board games. I’m a professor of innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship and business at the university level.

[Q] You came to the Baseworks workshop last week? Yes, I was in the Baseworks workshop last week.

[Q] How was your experience with Baseworks movement with Baseworks principles applied? My experience with Baseworks movements and with all the applied dynamics I liked quite a bit, you know. There were very specific moments where I could feel my body in different ways. And besides that I started to develop more awareness of how the postures were.

I think personally I have the grid a bit twisted, a bit the hip, a bit the shoulders and like having good posture with the back. So one of the things I like most is like being able to connect that awareness in the body with the neuronal part. That can help develop creativity more, which is one of the points I want to organize.

[Q] And which techniques or which exercises were most interesting for you? There were two very difficult. There was one where you went up like this parallel, sat and took the leg backward. That you’d lose like balance and that was like the game, not losing a bit of balance to then balance it and put it. It develops like a different capacity to perceive gravity.

And from the other side there was one that was squaring, holding all 4 points here and moving, parallel one side, take out the foot and return, and pass it through the other… take out the foot… There was a coordination issue that had hidden a movement failure in my shoulder.

And everyone was looking at me until the end when one of the professors appeared and made the correction. And even so it’s hard for me to realize that working alone. The mirror has helped me a lot when they don’t pay attention to me to try to go through. So knowing what you can improve even when you feel you’re doing it well and there’s not much stress, nor effort, nor pain in the process. I like it quite a bit.

[Q] And you also came to the conference? Yes, I was also at the theoretical conference.

[Q] At the conference, what ideas were new and which were most interesting for you? Well, three new ideas I liked very much. The 60 and 6% effort, it’s almost at the end of the conference, which has to do with one of Baseworks principles of managing intensity. It made a lot of sense to me. Because professionally even in the business part they tell the entrepreneur they have to go to the limit, break, destroy themselves, and that doesn’t generate good quality of life, and perhaps they want to grow beyond, sacrificing their wellbeing.

I feel that that principle as you teach it and the practical part by living it with Baseworks movements can generate that the entrepreneur applies it in their life in other facets. So that transfer that’s talked about so much I liked and fascinated me.

We also talked about the different brain phases, in which there are different ways of how we see the two hemispheres, with the partition in the middle… I don’t have the terms, but I liked that even when Baseworks sometimes chooses a cosmovision a bit simpler to interpret itself, it makes sense when having the practical part.

So there it left me a very deep interior doubt that maybe the brain depending on where you approach it from it responds to you and helps you make construction with yourself and with your body. It’s not so much a machine that’s lost there, that we’re not in time like at the mercy of what’s already programmed. But that you by changing the coordinates with which you work can generate more important impacts. That’s two. You want the third?

The third and which was one of the little things I liked most was the whole topic of micromovements. Especially contrasting micromovements when I started looking at your app. The micromoment from an external part has an aesthetic beauty. That I really like that it’s theoretically founded on why it works and how it generates new neuronal connections.

So for very mental people, you don’t need much argumentation and the path is already built for creativity topics. “You do this, this is going to improve your creativity!” “I don’t believe you!” “Do it for a week and prove to me it didn’t improve your creativity.” That type of practice for what I do is super cool.

[Q] Did you notice any change in perception or posture, quality of movement after the workshop? Quality of movement not yet. In postures yes. For example the day after the workshop I realized that washing dishes I was tilted. So you make the correction.

I could also put into practice one of the recommendations you gave that said, “five minutes of practice in the morning, five minutes of practice in the afternoon are enough to have some progress.” And I not only realized, that’s very important because let’s say the two days after I did it, a third day I stopped because I had a work day.

And not activating that at the start of the day and not activating it at the end of the afternoon, I feel makes awareness not include it. So that day I’m very mocked by work, that in theory should have used more Baseworks to relax, release tensions, look at posture, I didn’t even remember. Because I didn’t do the preparation at the start of the day and at the end of the day. So I’m today like developing a new habit and you have to sustain it.

[Q] What do you think of the two formats you experienced? The conference with a lot of theory and the practical workshop? The conference seems to me to be what a research presentation is, okay? I mean and you take what you can understand from a research presentation. You can do some interactive activities with little papers and everything if you wanted to improve it, as I see in workshops, but I liked it a lot.

The slides gave us an example of how to make slides especially through languages, very good example. And also how to give good feedback that the person didn’t understand anything, but with the slides they’re carrying the book of the story.

The workshop went very well for me. I enjoyed it a lot. The workshop was quite good. I felt like it lacked time. I felt the workshop lacked like time. Like yes, I mean like living more.

Super important. I’m looking at little things and it’s that my biggest stress while in the workshop is how do I take notes in a way that I can and in another way repeat the exercises. Because of course, you have these basic generic photos where the colored traces are, of how the positions look and how the micromovements go, and how this turn goes and everything.

And you know that each of those graphic activations (by the way has very good graphic work) works. Now take good notes and see like this, do it on your own. So that gap I feel you fill very well with the app. Half the people won’t be capable of doing it.

In fact if you could send to everyone who did the workshop a week later, 10 days later and you do a little questionnaire. “Hey, how many hours, how many days a week have you done Baseworks?” You’re going to realize the curve is very low. Because they’re left only with the experience.

So if we know our client is only going to have a high-impact experience, well let’s put a high-impact experience and we know they won’t continue. Or the reverse we want them to transcend time, that’s why I really liked the proposal of “come, participate, support, give us feedback, and continue the two months and we create community!” The difference in brand proposal is very noticeable. I like it quite a bit.

[Q] Is there anything else you want to add about something important or interesting for you in relation to Baseworks? Two little things. The first: The target audience we took the group here in Bucaramanga in Colombia at UNAB are people almost over 40 years old. What does that mean? It means that the public under 30 for some reason we’re not capable of reaching them with the message. And they could need it quite a bit. Especially that they’re very trapped in screens.

And the practice itself… I really liked the exercises when Asia was trying to explain there were opposing forces, that you in the practical part would pull and the position released you and then you’d do the opposite. From the mind you understood they were those two opposing positions. Like the Plank and you’d release… So you already understood that there you were seeing a reflection force and also forward and you’d throw yourself forward. That to understand the method I liked quite a bit.