When I teach, I work with something I call “third space.” Third space is that creative place of openness, when new possibilities have space to come in. But in order to get to third space, I have to take off the “expert” cap and simply be present and open to what wants to happen. When…
The creative process is how we engage with life, and all of us engage with life in a variety of ways. Teaching has been my creative passion because it seems to me to be the ultimate “meeting of life.” When we work with a new group, we have no idea who is going to show…
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…
Before the 2009 Bioneers conference, I’d never heard of Lily Yeh. She was one of the main speakers and I cried through her entire presentation. Yeh is an artist whose mission is to heal. Among other courageous things, she went to Rwanda and made art with the survivors of the 1994 genocide. Below is an…
I just read a book (Trent Jacob’s The Authentic Dissertation) about alternative dissertations—-using art, fiction, dialogues, indigenous ways of knowing and so on for doctoral dissertations. I have to admit, my dissertation process was completely the opposite of anything vaguely related to “experimental.” My process was about jumping through hoops to try to please my…
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