In this one-day workshop participants use painting as a practical laboratory for exploring how they make decisions.

We will start the workshop by discussing some well known decision making theories and then start understanding these theories better through the oil painting plein air practice.

We make hundreds of decisions every day in our daily lives. Sometimes we delay difficult decisions and other times we make quick intuitive decisions.

Learn to explore through your painting practice how you make decisions.

Painting is a visual tool and language to translate how we experience the world. Every person sees the world from a unique perspective and as a result approaches a difficult problem differently.

Faced with a blank canvas, limited time, uncertainty, colour choices, mistakes, and changing possibilities, participants will begin to see their own decision-making patterns more clearly.

No painting experience is required. The purpose is not artistic excellence, but greater self-awareness.

1. How to tackle a difficult problem like painting in practice and learning different ways to approach it from the start to finish.

2. Translating the practical exercise of painting back into every day decision making and finding different ways to approach both easy and difficult decisions.

3. Identify your default decision-making style under ambiguity and how decision patterns may help or hinder you.

4. Recognising how assumptions, risk appetite, emotion, and self-judgment shape your choices.