Download or read book Syncreate A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals Teams and Communities written by Charlotte Gullick and published by Mandorla Books. This book was released on 2021-08-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consider this book your ally as you move deeper into the adventure of creativity. Syncreate is about the synergy of co-creation; it embodies the spirit of collaboration. Think of it as an approach to creative project management that can be used by anyone from students to artists and individuals to organizational teams. The Syncreate approach distills the creative process into three main components: Play, Plan, and Produce. These stages can help us to achieve our macro-level, big picture goals as well as our daily, micro-level activities. "Developing better right-brain functionality can be incredibly difficult without some kind of easy-to-follow process. Enter Syncreate, a simple but sophisticated twelve-chapter guide for individuals, teams and communities who want to more successfully steer their creative journey." -Hugh Forrest, South by Southwest (SXSW), Chief Programming Officer "Syncreate is a clear and nicely organized gem of a book, from multidisciplinary talented and experienced guides and role models. You will become creatively empowered, individually and in community. Highly recommended." -Ruth Richards, M.D., Ph.D., Author of Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind: Dynamic New Paths for Self and Society "The Syncreate process looks at everything important: the individual, team and community process of creativity in a practical, yet poignant manner. It would be hard for anyone to finish this text and not play, plan and produce." -Diana Rivera, M.A., P.C.C, Ph.D., Creative Empowerment Coach and Facilitator

Download or read book Finding the Phoenix written by Karel James Bouse PhD and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journal of self-discovery, Finding the Phoenix, by author Dr. Karel James Bouse introduces seven tools for transformative self-discovery, including how to deconstruct one’s lenses, consciousness and identity; use expressive arts to access hidden elements of the self; connect with nature from a mystical perspective; find the meaning of your dreams; use Neo-shamanic techniques for interdimensional self-exploration, demystify anomalous experiences and phenomena; and construct a personal mythology to discover your life purpose. Used synergistically, these tools facilitate a deep, personal investigation that bridges and integrates the conscious with the unconscious, and the mythic with the mundane. Bouse provides you with background information based in academic, scientific, and professional psychological research, and detailed exercises as you follow the fictional “Lucy” through a series of workshops designed to help you find the phoenix of your authentic self. Finding the Phoenix offers a combination of thoughtful instructions, rich personal narrative from the perspective of Lucy, and experiential exercises designed to evoke insight, creativity, and personal development.

Download or read book A Mindful Approach to Team Creativity and Collaboration in Organizations written by Melinda J. Rothouse and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how contemplative arts practice and a mindful approach to creativity, can be used to offer new possibilities for facilitating team creativity and collaboration in organizational settings. The author employs a qualitative, action research paradigm, using arts‐based and ethnographic methods, to explore the perceived effects of a contemplative arts workshop process on team creativity and collaboration within an organization. The book demonstrates how a contemplative arts workshop process may be used to facilitate mindfulness, trust, communication, collaboration, and creative insights among teams and working groups. It explores each of these themes in depth and develops a model based on those findings. The model includes five elements: 1. Individual-Level Mindfulness, 2. Trust and Authentic Communication, 3. Team Cohesion and Collaboration, 4. Creative Ideation and Insights, and 5. Leadership: Creating a Culture of Innovation. Combining theory and practice, the book offers a series of mindfulness and contemplative arts exercises that facilitators can use to address each of the five levels of the model. This book weaves together contemporary psychological research on mindfulness and organizational creativity along with practical applications and contemplative arts exercises for practitioners and scholars of workplace creativity, management and organisational and industrial psychology.

Download or read book Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind written by Ruth Richards and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As human beings we all have creative potential, a quality essential to human development and a vital component to healthy and happy lives. However this may often remain stifled by the choices we make, or ways in which we choose to live in our daily lives. Framed by the “Four Ps of Creativity” – product, person, process, press – this book offers an alternative understanding of the fundamentals of ordinary creativity. Ruth Richards highlights the importance of “process”, circumventing our common preoccupation with the product, or creative outcome, of creativity. By focusing instead on the creator and the creative process, she demonstrates how we may enhance our relationships with life, beauty, future possibilities, and one another. This book illustrates how our daily life styles and choices, as well as our environments, may enable and allow creativity; whereas environments not conducive to creative flow may kill creative potential. Also explored are questions of ‘normality’, beauty and nuance in creativity, as well as creative relationships.

Download or read book The Sacred Art of Listening written by Kay Lindahl and published by SkyLight Paths Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing and listening are two different things. Learning to listen--really listen--requires sacred practice. The Sacred Art of Listening guides you through forty practices of deep listening--to our Source, to ourselves, and to each other. Inspiring text and contemplative artwork combine to communicate the three essential qualities of deep listening--silence, reflection and presence. They demonstrate that the key to healthy relationships and spiritual transformation can be as basic as practicing the art of listening. You will learn how to: Speak clearly from the heart Communicate with courage and compassion Heighten your awareness and sensitivity to opportunities for deep listening Enhance your ability to listen to people with different belief systems

Download or read book Deep Creativity written by Deborah Anne Quibell and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply intimate exploration of the "7 Ways" to creativity led by three authors whose collaboration provides meditations on the creative process as well as practical and reflective exercises. Reignite your creative spark with accessible meditations and practices developed by three experts on creativity and collaboration across three generations. Whether you’re a filmmaker, writer, musician, artist, graphic designer, dabbler, or doodler, all creative people face the challenges of myriad distractions and pressure to produce. Devoting space for the creative spark has become increasingly difficult. Deep Creativity is a call for making that space and an invitation to intentionally and introspectively engage with the creative life through seven time-tested pathways, available to you right where you are. The authors’ novel approach includes fifteen principles of creativity that not only inspire but also set you up for a lifetime of self-expression. This highly resourceful book offers practical guidance as well as deep reflection on the creative process.

Download or read book The Anti Racist Writing Workshop written by Felicia Rose Chavez and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Antiracist Writing Workshop is a call to create healthy, sustainable, and empowering artistic communities for a new millennium of writers. Inspired by June Jordan 's 1995 Poetry for the People, here is a blueprint for a 21st-century workshop model that protects and platforms writers of color. Instead of earmarking dusty anthologies, imagine workshop participants Skyping with contemporary writers of difference. Instead of tolerating bigoted criticism, imagine workshop participants moderating their own feedback sessions. Instead of yielding to the red-penned judgement of instructors, imagine workshop participants citing their own text in dialogue. The Antiracist Writing Workshop is essential reading for anyone looking to revolutionize the old workshop model into an enlightened, democratic counterculture.

Download or read book Neo shamanism and Mental Health written by Karel James Bouse and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the contemporary practice of Neo-shamanism and its relationship to mental health. Chapters cover the practice of Neo-shamanism, how it differs from traditional shamanism, the technology of the shamanic journey, the lifeworlds of some of its practitioners, as well as its benefits and pitfalls. The author’s analysis draws on an in-depth study of existing literature, original qualitative-phenomenological research into the lifeworlds of practitioners, and nearly three decades of observation and experience as a student, teacher and practitioner of Neo-shamanism. She discusses the potential role of Neo-shamanic journey technology as an approach for psychology-based studies of consciousness and anomalous phenomena; its value as a tool for self-exploration as part of a supervised curriculum; as well as the possible therapeutic applications of the journey and shamanic healing protocols for use by mental health professionals. This book is a rich and timely resource for students and teachers of psychology, anthropology and sociology, psychotherapists, and anyone who is interested in consciousness and parapsychology.

Download or read book Capturing Shadows written by Louis Hoffman and published by University Professors Press. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before contemporary approaches to helping people face death, loss, and other life transitions, poetry was used by many cultures to assist the grieving process. Today, it remains an important healing art. Capturing Shadows is an original collection of poems about actively engaging one's grieving and loss with a purpose. The poems were written by therapists, counselors, educators, and others who understand and have experienced the struggle of leaning into one's pain. The introduction along with activities at the end of the book provide a guide for readers to assist them in using poems from Capturing Shadows as well as their own poems to facilitate their grieving process. Whether wanting assistance with one's own grief and loss, a deeper understanding of the grief and loss, or a resource to help others in their journey, Capturing Shadows is a wonderful resource for all touched by death, loss, and other difficult life transitions.

Download or read book Don t Just Sit There DO NOTHING written by Jessie Asya Kanzer and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2022 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here are forty-seven inspirational pieces that are smart, hip, accessible, and rich with insight; forty-seven bite-sized stories of struggle, triumph, and contemplation based on sharp observations and anecdotes from the author's life. Each chapter begins with a verse from the Tao, followed by anecdotes and observations that give the teachings of Lao Tzu's applicability to contemporary life. Each chapter concludes with a section that offers an actionable step to bring the reader a sense of grounding and fluidity."--

Download or read book Life of Fire written by Pat Martin and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most important book on cooking over live fire in decades. Life of Fire illuminates it all, from coal beds, to home-built pits (in minutes!) to simple, delicious, recipes and enough whole hog know-how to impress the weekend warriors without intimidating newcomers.”—Andrew Zimmern One of the few pitmasters still carrying the torch of West Tennessee whole-hog barbecue, Nashville’s Pat Martin has studied and taught this craft for years. Now he reveals all he knows about the art of barbecue and live fire cooking. Through beautiful photography and detailed instruction, the lessons start with how to prepare and feed a fire—what wood to use, how to build a pit or a grill, how to position it to account for the weather—then move into cooking through all the stages of that fire’s life. You’ll sear tomatoes for sandwiches and infuse creamed corn with the flavor of char from the temperamental, adolescent fire. Next, you’ll grill chicken with Alabama white sauce over the grown-up fire, and, of course, you’ll master pit-cooked whole hog, barbecue ribs, turkey, pork belly, and pork shoulder over the smoldering heat of mature coals. Finally, you’ll roast vegetables buried in white ash, and you’ll smoke bacon and country hams in the dying embers of the winter fire. For Pat Martin, grilling, barbecuing, and smoking is a whole lifetime’s worth of practice and pleasure—a life of fire that will transform the way you cook.

Download or read book A Life Worth Living A Journey of Self Discovery Through Mindfulness Yoga and Living in Awareness written by Mellara Gold and published by Mandorla Books. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised on Australia's Gold Coast, Mellara Gold moved to Hollywood to become an actress. After a few film and TV roles, two failed marriages, a thankfully failed suicide attempt, and an incapacitating back injury, she healed herself through yoga, meditation, and living in awareness. Now a highly respected Bay Area yoga teacher and a regular contributor to Elephant Journal and other publications, Mellara shares teachings, insights, and heartfelt stories of her journey to wholeness and a life worth living. "A Life Worth Living is a book worth reading. Not only could I relate to many of the author's struggles, but also experienced a deep curiosity growing in me as I followed the stages of her transformational spiritual journey. Where would she take me next? This is not a book written with objectivity. It is the exact opposite. A Life Worth Living is written with a passion and fierceness that is the perfect antidote to any cool, above-it-all preaching about what happens when we commit ourselves to the path of yoga. I will gratefully carry the words of this Warrior-Princess-Seeker with me as I continue my own spiritual journey, feeling a little less lonely, a little less afraid, and a lot more inspired. Join us." - Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, PT, has taught yoga around the world since 1971 and is the author of 11 books, most recently Teaching Yoga with Intention: The Essential Guide to Skillful Hands-on Assists and Verbal Communication. "Mellara's book dives deep into the passage of yoga and how we can use our practice (yoga), our breath, and our awareness to create more love and peace in our lives. I see so much of my own journey in Mellara's and suspect many others will relate to her journey as well." - Mariel Hemingway, actress and author of Out Came the Sun "A Life Worth Living is one woman's story of struggle, redemption, and deep learning. Mellara shows us how healing is possible through presence, devotion, and practical listening." - Elena Brower, author of Being You and podcast host of Practice You "As she shares her engaging and often heart-wrenching journey, Mellara's spirit rises time and again to reach for the light. Her book inspires, gently guides, and humbly reveals her own struggles and commitment to a path that she has mastered through honesty, love, and perseverance." - Christine Burke, author of The Yoga Healer, owner of Liberation Yoga Studio, Los Angeles "Mellara's love shines in her words of wisdom and practical Dharma teachings throughout A Life Worth Living. As she shares her journey with us, she sprinkles the path with supportive spiritual reminders that this life is precious and we can find inspiration and healing during even the most arduous moments. Keep this book by your side in these unsettling times!" - Núbia Teixeira, author of Yoga and the Art of Mudras, Founder of Bhakti Nova School of Yoga, Dance & Reiki, and of "Nubia's Devotional Yoga Online School" on Patreon "Reading this wonderful memoir and manual of yogic practice, Mellara brings us humbly and deftly into her experience, and in so doing into our own-and we come out the other end changed for the better. Mellara's love, light, and beauty can be felt in every word." - Melanie Salvatore-August, author of Fierce Kindness and Yoga to Support Immunity

Download or read book The Sculpture Speaks written by Marianna Neil and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SCULPTURE SPEAKS by Marge Pellegrino and Marianna Neil is a powerful, imaginative, compassionate work that will touch the hearts and educate the minds of readers. The story of refugees fleeing civil war, violence, and persecution in Guatemala in the 1980s and 90s should have played an important role in political discourse in the US. It did not. Nor does it now. The story, instead, has been relegated to the back burner of history. We know what happens when history is ignored. In fact, large numbers of young Guatemalans as well as Hondurans and Salvadorans are still crossing the borders in the southwest US as they flee from danger and violence, just as the protagonist Juana did in the 1980s. The harrowing story of one individual's experience can motivate serious discussion of the issues and lead to understanding and even action. Co-authors Marge Pellegrino and Marianna Neil have created an imaginative re-telling, a fictionalized version that is as true as any documentary. We identify with Juana as she sets off on a dangerous journey from what was once a happy life with her husband and children. We learn from the statue things that Juana cannot tell us. And the sculptor brings immediacy to the portrayal of Juana as she sits for him. The presentation of facts and depiction of emotions are beautifully written and haunting. THE SCULPTURE SPEAKS personalizes the plight of thousands of refugees who fled Central America and continue to do so. Juana's story makes us aware, too, of the courage of everyday Americans who risked arrest and punishment to make life safer and more secure for individuals fleeing certain death. In creating the story of Juana, co-authors Marge Pellegrino and Marianna Neil honor all who survived and all who didn't. Reaching out to a larger audience, THE SCULPTURE SPEAKS will continue to honor them. Juanita Havill Writer and Poet Author of Grow: A Novel in Verse, and many other books. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of THE SCULPTURE SPEAKS goes toward the support the ongoing work of Owl & Panther, that provides expressive arts, service, and time in nature for refugee families impacted by torture, trauma, and traumatic dislocation. Owl & Panther also provides public and educational programs to help encourage a more welcoming community. In praise of THE SCULPTURE SPEAKS Of all the books, news articles, and PhD theses that have been written about the Sanctuary Movement, this book is certainly the most powerful. The authors are right: symbol and story have the power to transform human lives that data and fact do not. THE SCULPTURE SPEAKS will move each reader to a transformed understanding of refugees-a critical need in this time of anti-immigrant rhetoric and fear. Rev. John Fife, co-founder of 1980's Sanctuary Movement In THE SCULPTURE SPEAKS, a statue is brought to life; so is the woman who inspired that statue; so is the brave and perilous journey faced by so many refugees. With spare, powerful, language, Neil and Pellegrino have crafted a story that will wake you up, that will change you forever.

Download or read book War and the Soul written by Edward Tick and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War and PTSD are on the public's mind as news stories regularly describe insurgency attacks in Iraq and paint grim portraits of the lives of returning soldiers afflicted with PTSD. These vets have recurrent nightmares and problems with intimacy, can’t sustain jobs or relationships, and won’t leave home, imagining “the enemy” is everywhere. Dr. Edward Tick has spent decades developing healing techniques so effective that clinicians, clergy, spiritual leaders, and veterans’ organizations all over the country are studying them. This book, presented here in an audio version, shows that healing depends on our understanding of PTSD not as a mere stress disorder, but as a disorder of identity itself. In the terror of war, the very soul can flee, sometimes for life. Tick's methods draw on compelling case studies and ancient warrior traditions worldwide to restore the soul so that the veteran can truly come home to community, family, and self.

Download or read book Testostero written by David Foster and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of a novel, originally published in 1987, which is a rewriting of Goldoni's 18th century comedy 'The Venetian Twins'. Noel Horniman, a no-nonsense Australian poet, and his ex-wife, Judy Rankenfile, experience the wonders and treacheries of Venetian intrigue while living in the city on a literature board grant. Other novels by the author include 'North South West' and 'The Glade within the Grove'.

Download or read book The Blue Museum written by Phil Cousineau and published by Phil Cousineau. This book was released on 2021 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly three thousand years, King Sisyphus of Corinth has been one of the most compelling characters in world mythology. The iconic image of Sisyphus putting his shoulder to the boulder and pushing it to the summit of a mountain in the Underworld is recognizable the world over. To many poets and philosophers, from Homer and Aeschylus to Lucille Clifton and Albert Camus, the rebel hero has been a powerful symbol for hard-earned wisdom and the struggle to transcend suffering, while more skeptical commentators have interpreted Sisyphus' defiance of the gods as futile and doomed. In this mythopoetic novel, Phil Cousineau reimagines Sisyphus as telling his own tale through notebooks he kept while enduring his notorious punishment, which include surprising revelations about the self-sacrifice he made for his fellow Corinthians, his bold fight against the injustice of the gods, and the unbounded love for his wife and sons that earned him a second chance at life. The Lost Notebooks of Sisyphus is a timeless allegory that helps us come to terms with our own daily struggles and shines new light on Camus' existential conclusion that, "We must imagine Sisyphus as happy." I am Sisyphus, King of Corinth, great-great-grandson of Prometheus, great-grandson of Deucalion and Pyrrha, grandson of Hellen and Orseis, son of Aeolus and Enarate, husband of Merope, father of Glaucus, Ornytion, Almus, and Thersander, and grandfather of Bellerophon, slayer of the Chimera. I am a champion of navigators, sailors, athletes, merchants, poets, and playwrights, and an enemy of tyrants, despots, bullies, ruffians, and demagogues. I honor the gods and goddesses by building splendid temples, holy shrines, and sacrificial altars worthy of their glory. Many men deep am I, as my mentor, the deep-browed, long- bearded, wise-counseling Alexandros of Milos described me. What I am not is a scoundrel, as scandalmongers have impugned across the centuries while exonerating the cruel gods who condemned me.

Download or read book Teaching Yoga with Intention written by Judith Hanson Lasater and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to effective and appropriate communication through words and touch between yoga teachers and their students. Clear, effective verbal communication and judicious touch are two skills that Judith Hanson Lasater feels are essential for every yoga teacher. In Teaching Yoga with Intention, she gives pointed advice on how to interact verbally with students in class and how to appropriately use touch to make corrections. Drawing from her fifty years of yoga experience and her training in Nonviolent Communication, Lasater trains yoga teachers to effectively communicate not only technique, but also the more subtle lessons of respect, empathy, and compassion. She also shines an unflinching light on the use of touch in yoga. Teachers often use touch to create understanding and awareness in the poses. But this is a subtle art, and Lasater gives clear guidance on how, where, and when the use of touch can be used appropriately to further a student's development. In this book, Lasater also empowers students by encouraging them to take ownership of and responsibility for their practice. She covers myriad topics that can be difficult for students at any level to navigate, such as how and when to say "no" to an adjustment; keeping boundaries; when to leave a class; helping your teacher understand your needs; how to communicate your appreciation to your yoga teacher; and if and when to report a teacher's behavior. The skills that Lasater offers help create a safe environment for students to "own" their learning process, and to progress technically at their own speed.