soul calling

Standing “divided no more.” Here is my pledge.
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Standing “divided no more.” Here is my pledge.

My work with metaphor chose me; it was not my expected path in life. Through a series of experiences—harrowing, mystical, and profound—I came to be an advocate for a non-ordinary realm of profound beauty that we access through metaphor. Metaphoric images are the heart of the creative process and… I grew up in a family…

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There’s creative possibility in the underworld

Three separate clients came to me recently in very dark places. One had just lost her job and felt trapped—she described herself as being in a “coffin.” The second one was a single mother with a 2-month old baby who was living in a foreign country with no support system. I saw her life as…

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Life Is Calling All Of Us To Be Teachers

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…

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