Download or read book The Creative Conversation written by Bridget Benton and published by Eyes Aflame Publishing (Part of Eyes Aflame LLC). This book was released on 2011 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching creativity as a form of spiritual practice, artist Benton breaks the creative process down into its most basic components and offers a fresh perspective on developing one's creative skills.
Download or read book Making Conversation written by Fred Dust and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Senior Partner and Global Managing Director at the legendary design firm IDEO shows how to design conversations and meetings that are creative and impactful. Conversations are one of the most fundamental means of communicating we have as humans. At their best, conversations are unconstrained, authentic and open—two or more people sharing thoughts and ideas in a way that bridges our individual experiences, achieves a common goal. At their worst, they foster misunderstanding, frustration and obscure our real intentions. How often do you walk away from a conversation feeling really heard? That it moved the people in it forward in some important way? You’re not alone. In his practice as a designer, Fred Dust began to approach conversations differently. After years of trying to broker communication between colleagues and clients, he came to believe there had to a way to design the art of conversation itself with intention and purpose, but still artful and playful. Making Conversation codifies what he learned and outlines the seven elements essential to successful exchanges: Commitment, Creative Listening, Clarity, Context, Constraints, Change, and Create. Taken together, these seven elements form a set of resources anyone can use to be more deliberate and purposeful in making conversations work.
Download or read book The Win Without Pitching Manifesto written by Blair Enns and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creating Conversations written by Robert Keith Sawyer and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversation is one of those everyday, commonsense abilities that we can all do without thinking. But paradoxically, understanding how conversation works is a problem for scientists. This text explores this paradox: how can conversation be so difficult, and at the same time come to us so naturally?
Download or read book 131 Creative Conversations For Couples written by Jed Jurchenko and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transform your relationship from dull and bland to passionate, inspired, and connected. This couples questions book will guide you on the journey! Creative Relationship Questions These fun relationship questions will help you grow. They are for couples who long to level-up their relationship and include fun, creative, and deep conversation starters. Some relationship questions are purely fun and liven up the mood. Other conversation starters encourage you to dream about the future. There are also spiritual questions to help you grow your faith. Whether you are newly dating or nearing your golden anniversary, these questions for couples are for you! The Couples Questions Book Story Before Jenny and I married, I kept a conversation starters book in the glove compartment of my car. The two of us, worked through these relationships questions--one by one--at coffee shops, while relaxing on the beach, and over dinner dates. Now, I am honored to pass on a new conversation starters book! How to Use This Dating Book Download this book on your phone and never have a boring date again. Keep a copy on your coffee table, and stir-up inspiring conversations at home. Ask these relationship questions on road trips, dinner dates, or go through the questions around a summer bonfire! These creative, Christ-honoring, questions for couples are sure to lead to create an abundance of happy memories! Conversation Starters Include: Imagine you could send a letter back in time to your younger self. What would your message say and to which year would you send it? What are you currently doing to nurture yourself spiritually? Are there spiritual activities that you did in the past that you miss? Would you rather be unable to have children at all, or only be able to birth quadruplets? Why? Warning: If you enjoy dull dates, then this book is not for you. However, if you long to laugh, connect, and engage as a couple, then this conversation starters book will guide you on the journey! 131 Creative Conversations for Couples, is packed with excellent questions for Christian couples before marriage. It also contains thought-provoking relationship questions for couples who have been connected for decades. Christian Dating Books If you enjoyed The 5 Love Languages, or Questions for Couples, then you will love 131 Creative Conversations for Couples. Don't just wait to connect. Take action, and transform your relationship with this creative conversation starters book for couples!
Download or read book Creative Conversations written by Andrew Gaines and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative Conversations uses games to develop the playful uses of the mind that are characteristic of great innovators. You learn how to shift an ordinary conversation into one where you spark off each other's ideas and fresh insights arise. I developed this approach because I often found myself having dull conversations with bright people. The spirit of play was missing. There is more to these creativity techniques than just fun. They help business people cultivate a creative climate and come up with fresh ideas, as well as contributing to team building and collaborative communication. Teachers can use them to help students gain deeper insight into concepts from science, literature and mathematics. And of course playfulness and learning always bring fresh spark into any relationship.
Download or read book The Art of Focused Conversation for Schools Third Edition written by Jo Nelson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why don’t kids learn? Why can’t students do higher order thinking? Why do educators have endless staff meetings with few results? How can parents and teachers communicate better? The pressure upon educators to teach more, to a wider range and number of students, with decreasing resources and supports makes it urgent to find tools to answer such questions. The Art of Focused Conversation for Schools demonstrates how the Focused Conversation method, widely used in organizations and businesses, can effectively be used in a K-12 educational setting. Each section deals with interactions among students, staff, and parents, and elaborates with over 100 sample conversations designed to make learning more meaningful, prevent and solve problems, and make communications in meetings more effective. Appendices showcase integrated curriculum examples where conversations have been used in unique combinations and list sample questions for each level of the conversation method. With a bibliography and index included, and patterned after its highly successful predecessor, The Art of Focused Conversation: 100 Ways to Access Group Wisdom in the Workplace, this book will be welcomed by parents, students, educators, and school administrators everywhere. The Institute of Cultural Affairs has over 40 years experience in more than 32 nations. A unique facilitation, research and training organization, ICA Canada has provided participatory skills to many thousands of people worldwide.
Download or read book Creative Conversation written by Robert Storey and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Do You See written by Barney Saltzberg and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How creatively do you see things? She took photographs of things she loved and sent them to him. He drew pictures on her photographs of things he saw and sent them back to her. Real-life friends Barney Saltzberg and Jamie Lee Curtis share their fun, funny, and imaginative creations, encouraging readers to find their own unique perspectives lurking in puddles and noodles, fruit and flowers. This project was born out of a school visit where Jamie complimented Barney's creativity, lamenting her own inability to draw . . . and Barney countered that everyone is creative in their own way. They joined forces to create a book that is sure to inspire kids of all ages.
Download or read book Design the Life You Love written by Ayse Birsel and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interactive journal that serves as a joyful, inspirational guide to building the life you've always dreamed of, using the principles and creative process of an award-winning product designer. Life, just like a design problem, is full of constraints -- time, money, age, location, and circumstances. You can’t have everything, so you have to be creative to make what you want and what you need co-exist. Design the Life You Love is a joyful, inspirational guide to building the life you’ve always wanted, using the principles and creative process of an award-winning product designer. Through four steps that reveal hidden skills and wisdom, anyone can design a life they love!
Download or read book Topics of Conversation written by Miranda Popkey and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If you're a fan of Sally Rooney's work, then you can't go wrong by picking up a copy of Topics Of Conversation ... She's a fresh voice, and one that it's certainly worth listening to.' Vogue 'Miranda Popkey's debut explores the paradox of longing to assert control and longing to lose it ... She depicts what it feels like to exist, actually live, at that intersection, which can so often bring about paralysis.' New Yorker What is the shape of a life? Is it the things that happen to us? Or is it the stories we tell about the things that happen to us? From the coast of the Adriatic to the salt spray of Santa Barbara, the narrator of Topics of Conversation maps out her life through two decades of bad relationships, motherhood, crisis and consolation. The novel unfurls through a series of conversations - in private with friends, late at night at parties with acquaintances, with strangers in hotel rooms, in moments of revelation, shame, cynicism, envy and intimacy. Sizzling with enigmatic desire, Miranda Popkey's debut novel is a seductive exploration of life as a woman in the modern world, of the stories we tell ourselves and of the things we reveal only to strangers.
Download or read book TALKING REVOLUTION written by PETER. OSBORN and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Color Duets written by Erin Lee Gafill and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaffe Fassett comes home to Big Sur each year to paint still lifes with Erin Lee Gafill. This book chronicles a decade of creative conversation between these two award-winning artists. This book serves as a catalog for the Color Duets show at the Monterey Museum of Art, summer 2020,
Download or read book 131 Necessary Conversations Before Marriage written by Jed Jurchenko and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't marry a stranger! Instead, transform your relationship from ordinary to extraordinary as you connect on a deeper level than ever before. This questions book for Christian couples will guide you on the journey.
Download or read book Creative Conversations written by Michael Schumacher and published by Betterway Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account covers topics like preparing for the interview, kinds of interviews, how to structure them, and how to prepare the final product.
Download or read book Library of Creative Conversation written by Declan B. Keefe and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conversation Starters written by Kim Chamberlain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like an onion, a conversation is often made up of layers. On its face it may appear to be on one level, but peel away a layer or two, and you will find other issues lying beneath the surface. Providing techniques to analyse conversations, Conversation Starters will enable you to develop creativity by taking your brain to a space where originality can flourish, by enhancing problem-solving skills, and by improving conversation and listening skills. Even if you wouldn’t describe yourself as “creative,” this book will give you the chance to think and express yourself in innovative and productive ways. The book’s one thousand conversation-starting topics offer easy ways to move away from traditional discussion themes as well as the opportunity to develop and enhance speaking and listening skills. They provide the opportunity to approach and explore issues and then to formulate and express your thoughts and responses in innovative and challenging ways. You’ll discover new ways way to connect with others, avenues to help you learn new things and connect with other people in stimulating and satisfying ways. In addition to the conversation starters are tips and quotes relating to discovering and enhancing creativity while initiating and maintaining conversations.
