Meet Wilson Stiner

We were lucky to catch up with Wilson Stiner recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Wilson, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

I have to acknowledge this forum for spreading actionable bits of encouragement. It is very easy to get caught up in the distractions of flat society and lose momentum. I hope something I say here today can spark a positive impact in your readers. Bold journeys are the ones I care about.

Last time we did this, I was asked about resilience and immediately uttered that it was the most important component of an artist’s makeup, and that it was somehow inevitable.

Like most profound gifts, the recognition of human plasticity was delivered to me at an early age. Knowing that this vessel can take unimaginable stressors gave way to knowing its capacity for bliss. The hard part for me remains to not get caught up in the pattern of taking on stress and create space for the bliss, channeling the experiences into creation. That comes down to storytelling for me, and necessitates the adoption of completely blown-out perspectives, at the very least to broaden the spectrum.

Transforming injurious signals into aligned action is the name of the game, and it takes training. I find not many living examples extend a helping hand when it comes to developing these kinds of tools or even articulating that mindset beyond a platitude. True, it’s hard to communicate, but the resources are there, and like all gems, require some digging.

The refrain from Fritz Lang’s 1927 unfading epic, Metropolis is: “the mediator between head and hands must be the heart.” While still training my eyes to integrate with my body, I would spend summers pushing past limits, hiking and paddling for days in Maine. It created this other-worldly sense of infinite possibilities. My heart was doing so much more than I thought it could, and it was forcing my head into territory unmapped by any past experience. The same can be said of the complete physical opposite I encounter when I attended my first zazenkai. What I think (head) and what I do (hands) need stabilization. If you need proof you can withstand oncoming storms, undulating between challenges of mind and body delivers a reliable strengthening of foundation.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

As an audiovisual storyteller or “mythcommunicator,” I find myself consistently discovering emergent, novel expressions. My days are spent investigating and shaping those ideas and their path towards release through story. The hope is that by the time I share them, they contain strong intentions that translate.

While finding authentic representations of those intentions for myself and partners, I came upon a configuration of techniques to help others break pervasive cycles of media output and consumption that no longer serves beyond distraction. By aligning with regenerative narratives, what we create together adds value beyond the runtime.

After a residency and a number of intensives at media events, I now offer this method in a remote capacity and find it incredibly rewarding to watch lightbulbs go off while helping guide boons back to authors and audiences.

https://www.stinerbros.com/storysandbox

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

The most impactful qualities for properly focusing my journey have been curiosity, fearlessness, and reciprocity.

Creating an ikigai diagram would be my first step towards a personal development plan.

If you are searching for your unique set of abilities that bring value to a more-than-human community, I would find a rite of passage that resonates and dive in.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?

Don Quixote hit all the right notes for me. So much so that I built my four years at college around directing my first feature in Cervantes’ birthplace. In it, he articulates, with sagely humor, how dreams give us life, that it’s all perspective, and the line between fantasy and reality only blurs when you attempt to draw it.

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photo credits:
Latoya Hawthorne
Wilson Stiner
Marlon Ashanga Arirama
Beth Turner

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