Learning & Creative Process

The antidote of fear is not courage. It’s curiosity.

The antidote to fear is not courage. It’s curiosity. Pursue your own questions. Develop your own inquiry. Have your own conversations about what interests you. We’re designed to be learners. We’re designed to experiment, make mistakes, try new things, fail, fall down, and try again. Take responsibility for your own learning.

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Artists engage in a process that lets them touch Something that’s alive.

Artists engage in a process that lets them touch Something that’s alive. Joseph Campbell said, “The way of the artist and the way of the mystic are very much alike, except the mystic does not have a craft.” The creative process allows us to have a conversation with Something greater than ourselves. It puts us in…

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It takes courage to follow a creative calling.

Inner visions, creative nudges, and musings are never rational or logical. It takes courage to follow them. It takes fortitude to go against the norm and follow an inner call. Creative musings can’t be understood from the logic of the thinking mind and we typically don’t have the proper training or credentials for them. How…

Do you think like an artist?

  The physicist Arthur Zajonc says that our culture needs the artist’s cognitive capacities. But what is it that poets and artists do that take them beyond ordinary capacities of knowing?   Perhaps it’s the artist’s willingness to be confused, welcoming any unlikely connection that shows up; or his or her sensitivity to nuance and qualities…

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When there are no words, something else appears.

When there are no words, something else appears. When I work with clients, I don’t engage with their thinking because what they think is likely keeping them stuck. Instead, I shift my clients to a place of higher wisdom where there are no words. In that place of higher wisdom, they have access to deep…

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