In the art development project Sowing the Seeds of Love, we are rethinking efforts to deal with performance pressure and stress among young students. 

In one part of the exhibition, we were present in the exhibition space for the first eight weeks and worked “open curtain” together with museum visitors and other invited guests with concrete suggestions on how educational institutions and students can deal with performance pressure. In this way, the artists' process, which is not normally visible to an art audience, is shown. 

The process is divided into four phases. In the first phase, we gather knowledge and experience through workshops and interviews with museum visitors and professionals to learn more about stress and performance pressure. In the subsequent phases, we design and develop the social and physical programs based on the results of phase 1. 

Finally, the results will be presented to our partner University College Copenhagen and their teacher training program and at a public closing event for visitors to the museum. 

• Time and framework for real learning
• Security among the students 
• A student administration that creates predictability. 

These are just some of the suggestions we make based on the development process focusing on performance pressure and stress among young students in Denmark. 

Based on our many conversations with students, teachers, experts and visitors to the art center, we can see that there is no quick fix when it comes to stress and performance pressure among young students. It has been called “the death of a thousand cuts” because there are so many complex sources of stress in students' everyday lives. 

• It's clear that the physical design must be able to create connection and reduce stress. 
• A study environment must be created that unfolds what is learned and makes it so great to study that they choose to stay. 
• Teachers must be given far greater opportunities to be role models and culture creators. 

In addition, the politically created foundation must be changed so that there is actual time for professional immersion in which students thrive. No deep learning without well-being. Because if we don't do something now, we will once again end up with a new generation that feels pressured even before they have started. That's why our vision is that KP should be in balance and exude love and resonance. 

Read the report here: https://www.kennethbalfelt.org/publikation1/sowing-the-seeds-of-love---rapport 

In the second part of the exhibition, visitors could explore a retrospective exhibition on the methods developed in a number of previous projects. Here, insights and experiences from the projects will be presented in film, photos, text and book form. The introduction to the methods can also prepare participants to participate in the development process on performance pressure. 

The exhibition should not be seen as a finished work, but as a step in an artistic development process that will develop interventions and methods for dealing with performance pressure both in society and in the individual.