Almost two years ago I published a book on teaching, Getting Messy: A Guide to Taking Risks and Opening the Imagination. The heart of the book was to show teaching (at its best) as a creative process of learning along the way. By approaching teaching as a process of ongoing inquiry in which we are…
… said Carl Jung, which segways nicely to my upcoming workshop April 16, at Book Passage. Here’s the description: Images lie at the heart of the creative process. They are the language of the “middle realm,” a place where literal words don’t yet exist. Depth psychologists believe that images are animate and in this seminar…
Sometimes I get the coolest emails from people. One in particular, from someone named Eileen, has been sitting in my inbox for two months. It’s given me so much food for thought that I haven’t been able to file it away. The subject line of the email is: “as if…metaphor is the new critical thinking?”…
“If there is no mystery, there is only propaganda”…wrote the artist Keith Haring. Mystery is where our new learning comes from, which is why creativity is so important for learning. Our creative process, in whatever form it manifests, is how we access mystery. We’re all creative beings, because we all wonder about things in this…
“…For this is quite the final goal of art: to recover this world by giving it not to be seen as it is, but as if it had its source in human freedom.” Jean-Paul Sartre Happy new year everyone! Hope you’re enjoying these days of sunshine. I’m teaching a new course, Psychology of Creativity, at…
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