• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Kim Hermanson PhD

Facilitating Creative Breakthroughs

  • Home
  • Books & Courses
    • Books
    • Audio Courses
    • Courses to License
  • Media
    • Interviews
    • Articles
    • Blog
    • Youtube
  • Metaphor Readings
  • About
  • Contact
  • Show Search
Hide Search

Teaching, Coaching & Facilitating

Make space so you can grow

February 19, 2009

Magda Cragg, speaking of her partner, the poet Lew Welch said, “He made space around you, so you could grow.”

Thinking in Our Hearts

February 17, 2009

Saints and sages have always claimed that the true seat of the mind is in the heart. In 1932 an American Indian medicine man told Carl Jung that white men, with their wrinkled faces and constant anger, were insane and killed so wantonly becuase they thought in their heads. Whole people, he explained, think in [ Read more … ]

Rich, fertile space is more important than content.

February 5, 2009

When I teach, what I think about is how I’m going to create space for learning and magic, not the content. In the larger scheme of things, rich, fertile space is way more important than any piece of information. So if space is so important, why do we continue to focus on the specifics–the subject, [ Read more … ]

Our culture neglects the “nonverbal intellect”

January 31, 2009

“The main theme to emerge…is that there appears to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in left and right hemispheres, respectively, and that our educational system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the nonverbal form of intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates [ Read more … ]

Below the words, something real wants to be expressed.

January 18, 2009

I just saw the movie, Meetings with Remarkable Men, a film based on a book written by the Greek-Armenian mystic, G.I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949). The book and film are about meetings that Gurdjieff had when he was younger with several “remarkable” men. At one point in the movie, Gurdjieff is in a monastery. The head monk [ Read more … ]

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 14
  • Go to page 15
  • Go to page 16
  • Go to page 17
  • Go to page 18
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Blog Categories

  • Art
  • Books
  • Doorway Sessions
  • Earth/Nature
  • Imaginal
  • Inspiration
  • Learning & Creative Process
  • Metaphor
  • Miscellaneous
  • Social Change
  • Teaching, Coaching & Facilitating

Blog Archives

Blog Tags

aesthetic space albert einstein artist beauty beginner's mind Book Passage carl jung coaching consciousness courage creative breakthrough creativity deep knowing depth psychology eckhart tolle esalen institute form genius george lakoff getting messy goethe heart imagination james hillman john o'donohue key image marshall mcluhan martin foss mihaly csikszentmihalyi play poetry psychology of creativity psychology of metaphor right brain robert henri shamanism singing Sophia Center soul calling square energy stanley kunitz strength thinking third space transformation

Get clarity, see opportunities, and uncover resources that can’t be known any other way.

Copyright © 2022 Kim Hermanson, PhD | Website by Digital PDX