I love inquiries. My books have always been an inquiry… an inquiry into art (Sky’s the Limit: The Art of Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey) an inquiry into teaching (Getting Messy: Taking Risks and Opening the Imagination for Teachers, Trainers, Coaches, and Mentors) an inquiry into how we know (Deep Knowing: Entering the Realm of Non-Ordinary Intelligence) [ Read more … ]
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We need schools for the imagination.
Einstein famously said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” That’s a great quote, so why don’t we have schools of the imagination rather than schools where we learn [ Read more … ]
Imagination is subversive. It lives in a realm beyond social conditioning.
The realm of the imagination lies beyond social structures, institutions, academic programs, established procedures, even religion. Clients come to me blocked and what we do together is make space for creative inspiration. We tap the space that lies beyond established structures of thought.
If we want a new world, we need to listen to what has life.
If we want a new world, we need to learn how to listen to what has life. What does it mean to listen to what has life? Or, we could ask, what does it mean to say something is “alive”? Here is my definition of what is alive: People who are buzzing with gifts to [ Read more … ]
Talented people achieve what others can’t, but genius achieves what others can’t imagine.
In his book The World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer wrote: Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot even see. People who are talented achieve what others can’t, but genius achieves what others can’t imagine. Genius [ Read more … ]
