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Getting Messy Facebook Page!

ByKim Hermanson

Please check out my new facebook page for Getting Messy:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Getting-Messy-Taking-Risks-and-Opening-the-Imagination/201587503232115

Hope you’re all having a wonderful summer. I just finished reading Adolf Guggenbuhl’s book, Power in the helping professions. My favorite quote was written by John Haule in the preface:

“As soon as we know ‘what’s best’ for our patient or student—we have in Guggenbuhl’s language ‘split the archetype.’ One of us is all-knowing and all-powerful, and the other is ignorant, neurotic and powerless.”

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