Mary Oliver on Creativity
September 7, 2019
The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life (from Brain Pickings)
“Certainly there is within each of us a self that is neither a child, nor a servant of the hours. It is a third self, occasional in some of us, tyrant in others. This self is out of love with the ordinary; it is out of love with time. It has a hunger for eternity.“
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
Mary Oliver in “Of Power and Time,” found in Upstream: Selected Essays(public library).
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/10/12/mary-oliver-upstream-creativity-power-time/
Brubeck’s Time Out Jazz Album Explored
August 23, 2019
Dave Brubeck’s iconic “Time Out” jazz album was a synthesis of American jazz and world polyrhythms. I loved this album as a boy, saw the quartet perform it live, and love it still today. Its a good example of a form of creativity. This short video from Open Culture breaks it down and explains.
www.openculture.com/2019/08/how-dave-brubecks-time-out-changed-jazz-music.html
Tuition Cuts at the Academy for Guided Imagery
April 15, 2019
Only 2 weeks left to sign up for this discount!
The Academy for Guided Imagery Announces Major Tuition Cuts On Selected Guided Imagery Courses and The Lowest Certification Tuition Ever!
No travel required! Students can now take all classes from their home or office via Distance Learning, and attend the live Preceptorships via online interactive video webinars.
For a limited time, tuition for our 13 hour introductory program (FIGI) is now only $99.95 (formerly $195). Such a deal! Even better, the tuition for our 150 hour Professional Certification Training Program (usually $3495) has been temporarily reduced $2000 to $1495 with extended payments as low as $177/month for nine months. This tuition reduction will end as soon as our 2019 class is filled and will continue no later than April 30, 2019.
Former students consistently report that their new expertise using Interactive Guided Imagerysm has been so helpful to their patients that they are now referring their friends and family members in for care.
By enrolling in Profession Certification Training, you will learn how Interactive Guided Imagerysm can be used to:
• Create and explore a personal inner imaginary place that is beautiful, peaceful, safe, secure, private, and free from pain, stress, and trauma where one can rest, relax, recharge their emotional batteries, and heal (Personal Place Imagery).
• Evoke a needed emotional quality or feeling state that will support any personal challenges one faces (i.e. how to feel more courage, skill, determination, patience, creativity, etc.) (Evocative Imagery).
• Communicate with the head of one’s inner cheerleading team who is a source of great personal knowledge, wisdom, and support, and who serves as an invaluable helper in taming an inner critic (Inner Advisor Imagery).
• Discover the etiologic source of why one feels the way they do by using Affect Bridge Imagery to return to the first time they felt that way. Once there, they can review that event from a more contemporary adult perspective (Regression Imagery).
• Resolve resistance and inner conflicts that can sabotage success in any weight control, drug or alcohol dependence, smoking cessation, or exercise training program (e.g., one inner part wants to quit while another part doesn’t want to) (Resistance Imagery).
• Meet one’s inner child or even their inner children and learn how to catch them up with what’s happened in one’s life (Inner Child Imagery).
• Teach pediatric imagery to real children to teach them how to reduce anxiety associated with medical procedures and to cope more effectively with pain, stress, and trauma (Pediatric Imagery).
• Help heal the emotional wounds in yourself or others who are survivors of adult or childhood trauma (PTSD Imagery).
• Relieve pain and other symptoms and improve tolerance of medical procedures in people with cancer, chronic pain, AIDS, and other catastrophic and life-threatening illnesses (Somatic Imagery).
• Support dying patients and their caregivers, and help family members move through the predictable stages of grieving following loss (Transformational Imagery).
To qualify for this special tuition discount, you must enroll in Certification Training or the Fundamental of Interactive Guided Imagery (FIGI) Course April 30, 2019, when this tuition discount ends, and complete all training requirements no later than December 31, 2019.
International students, those with disabilities or ongoing family or work responsibilities can now actively participate online without having to travel to Los Angeles. For more information and the requirements for attending the live Preceptorships online, click here.
If you’d like to become recognized as an expert in using guided imagery and enjoy all the other benefits of Academy Certification, we encourage you to register right away, for available space is limited and with this discount offer, we expect our 2018 class to fill quickly.
To find out more about this special offer or to enroll now, click here.
New Original Song- Get Together Now
March 7, 2019
Get Together Now– a new song by Bob Schoenholtz (Lead vocal, guitar, and piano) with tracks by Randy Light (guitars, vocals, and bass) and Andy Pace on percussion and vocals. Recording and production by Randy Light. Thanks, Randy!
Using Art with Guided Imagery
January 8, 2019
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(scribble image by bob schoenholtz)
Introduction
Interactive Guided ImagerySM (IGISM) assists a person to enhance awareness of their unconscious imagery, and helps one learn to use this imagery to support their learning, growing, healing, and fullness of being. While the most common usage of this method is through direct interaction with imagery in the imagination, IGISM can also be used with the making of art as a way to combine two powerful, and enjoyable processes into one.
To read more of this essay on using guided imagery with art click here to be taken to the full article on another page.
Art, Pain, and Suffering (and Songwriting)
December 11, 2018
An interview with Jeff Tweedy of Uncle Tupelo and Wilco by Bob Boilen at All Songs Considered
On Pain And Songwriting
“I have a lot of strong opinions about the ‘tortured artist myth,’ and, in my opinion, the mistaken notion that art grows out of pain. Everybody has pain in their life. Everyone suffers. If art grew out of suffering alone there’d be a lot more art, and a lot of really true horrific suffering on this planet is done by people in positions where they don’t have the means of production of any type of art. Their daily struggle is survival…
“I think it’s just that art becomes great when people are able to see themselves and recognize themselves in it. And unfortunately one of the most shared experiences for humans is sadness and suffering.”
