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The role of imagination is to awaken.

January 11, 2022

Imagination allows us to break through habitual ways of perception and patterns of behavior. It lets us see the world as if it could be otherwise. Our imaginations offer us space.  When you open your imagination–when you see beyond what you currently know–that feeling of spaciousness will feed you. Your world is now bigger. You [ Read more … ]

Profound Vulnerability

June 20, 2012

Several years ago I attended a Christmas Eve church service where the female pastor (who was clearly a beginner) played Silent Night for the audience on her harp. I have never forgotten that moment, nor her profound vulnerability. The tenderness of it, risking our judgment and ridicule… The educator Maxine Green said, “When we are [ Read more … ]

Psychology of Creativity course

January 5, 2011

“…For this is quite the final goal of art: to recover this world by giving it not to be seen as it is, but as if it had its source in human freedom.” Jean-Paul Sartre Happy new year everyone! Hope you’re enjoying these days of sunshine. I’m teaching a new course, Psychology of Creativity, at [ Read more … ]

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