I love being in the Flow state - whether its losing hours in the garden tending to new seedlings and clearing weeds, or getting deep into a programming project around my fine art work, or folding a complex model for its own pleasure.

By now most people know that the Flow State was so named by researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He found that individuals report their happiest and most satisfying moments when they are fully engaged in a challenging task that matches their abilities.

Perhaps this is what happens with my weeds and seedlings, or my fledgling attempts at C# programming?

I certainly try to get this balance in my online and in person workshops.
It's not easy to match the model to the participants' varying abilities when there are 30+ individuals, all with different experiences, but I'm always aiming for that creative satisfaction and so I work hard to get a sense of where the team and individuals are at, keeping an eye out for those who need either a little extra helping hand, or those that need a little extra challenge.

I think I get it right most of the time. Now I'm interested about how I could record and quantify this experience, creating a metric to measure it by... perhaps something for my programming hobby?!!