Harnessing Flow and Creativity to Heal the Body & Mind | How To Academy

Thu, 8 August 2024

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm BST

Harnessing Flow and Creativity to Heal the Body & Mind

Neuroscientist Julia Christensen In Conversation With Hannah MacInnes

What if you could enter a calm and focused state where you feel entirely absorbed and productive, without any effort at all? Neuroscientist Julia Christensen joins us to investigate.

If you’ve ever experienced the blissful feeling of being fully immersed in a project, of ideas and solutions coming to you naturally, or of getting lost in thought when cooking, playing music, or dancing, then you’ve accessed the flow state. Often, we stumble into it, but what if you could access and unlock its healing and energising powers whenever needed? 

After an injury derailed her career as a ballet dancer, Julia Christensen was unable to dance as a mode of expression, and felt more stressed and less energetic. She realised then that creative expression has a deeper impact than entertainment and embarked on a new career in psychology. Now working as a neuroscientist, she’s spent the past decade unlocking the secrets of flow, mapping out what happens in our brains when we create and play, and how both can soothe and sharpen the mind.

She joins us to share what she has learned and teach you how to harness the flow state to strengthen your ability to stay calm, focused and inspired throughout your everyday life.

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Dr Julia F. Christensen

Neuroscientist and Former Dancer

Dr Julia F. Christensen is a Danish neuroscientist and former dancer currently working as a senior scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Germany. She studied psychology, human evolution, and neuroscience in France, Spain and the UK. For her postdoctoral training, she worked in international, interdisciplinary research labs at University College London, City, University London and the Warburg Institute, London and was awarded a postdoctoral Newton International Fellowship by the British Academy.

Hannah MacInnes

Presenter, Podcaster and Host of How To Academy’s live programmes.

Hannah MacInnes is a broadcaster and journalist. Alongside hosting How To Academy’s live programmes and podcast, she presents a cultural show on Times Radio and interviews on-stage at a number of other major literary events. She is the host of The Klosters Forum Podcast series and has written for the Radio Times, the Evening Standard and TLS. Before going freelance she worked for 8 years at BBC Newsnight, as Planning Editor and as a Producer / Filmmaker.