When Getting Messy is a Good Thing is the awesome title of a new review on the San Francisco Examiner about my book. The reviewer, Asandra Lamb, wrote that Getting Messy “is an excellent book for anyone exploring their creativity. It is clear that Hermanson knows the necessity of making a mess during the creative [ Read more … ]
Teaching, Coaching & Facilitating
The Wisdom of Not Knowing
My working life has always been diverse. Over the past thirty years I’ve developed and taught seminars, worked as a coach and consultant, and facilitated many groups on an assortment of topics. My clientele have ranged from Senior citizens to troubled teenagers to creatively blocked adults and everything in between. I’ve developed and taught computer [ Read more … ]
Exploring Group Creative Process
Every time I ask my subconscious for a metaphor about my work, I get the image of a fertile field. I don’t bother to notice whether it’s empty or full, because it’s apparent from the image that what’s grown in it isn’t what is important. What is important is the potential of the field itself. [ Read more … ]
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing
In the past two months, I’ve started three separate support groups. Two are work-related, having to do with marketing and book promotion. The third is a small group of friends to support our creative process (we commit to daily writing and weekly artist dates.) All three groups have been amazing, helpful, and instructive. I’m really [ Read more … ]
Balancing Inner and Outer
My brother-in-law is a big fan of Goethe (full name: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.) By the way, I just discovered that the proper German pronunciation of his name is “Goo-t’h.” (Don’t feel bad—apparently his name was a challenge for people to pronounce back in his own day, as well.) In any case, every time I’m [ Read more … ]
