On a recent trip to California, I headed to Santa Barbara to visit one of my favorite art supply stores, Art Essentials, and to see the exhibit of photographer John Divola at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Meandering down State Street I encountered four pianos, each a block apart, positioned on the sidewalk near […]
One of my favorite parts of the Expressive Arts Opening of the Psychology and Counseling Program is the student artists’ presentation of their own work as “Performance Art”. At our opening during Fall 2013 Residency, Nicole Grubman read from her book, “I Left My Sole in Vermont: A Walker’s Journey and Guide through Central Vermont […]
I have returned to Goddard for fall residency and am immediately inspired. Students have shared their work at our Psychology and Counseling Expressive Arts Opening and the principles of Expressive Arts Therapy are embodied by the works created as well as by the creators. Students have engaged with varied mediums including clay, photography, written narrative, […]
“Mother Nature wants us to be afraid,” says Rick Hanson, the author of Buddha’s Brain. Survival of the most cheerful is not, after all, what counts over the millennia. Survival of the alertest does. The individual who is sensitive to fear will be the first to tell her hunting and gathering comrades that she […]
I created fifteen “Soul Cards” [pictured at left] for the Expressive Arts exhibition at our MA in Psychology & Counseling Residency in April 2013. What started out as something like just a compliance to fulfilling coursework for a course on Addiction turned into an adventure in discovery, interaction and personal healing. My father died […]
I have learned a lot from AA, although I am not an alcoholic. When my mind is twittering about what I need to do tomorrow and what so and so said earlier today, whether I canget it all done, and what did she mean when she said x or y and did I handle it […]
And she answers: Probably not. Meditation is only one way to find stillness within. My husband sings in two choirs. A good friend walks in the woods. Well, I walk in the woods. I even like walking in the woods. But walking in the woods doesn’t make me quiet. I feel refreshed, usually, and ready […]
In life sometimes I get so caught up in all the mundane and necessary things that I forget why I started to do something. Or why I am walking down a specific path. In learning to counsel with people and to listen to them I became so caught up in the information and the process […]
From Greta Enriquez (MA PSY) I was very nervous sharing my artwork. For me art is so personal and the interpretative aspects of viewing art compounded my anxiety. That was before I was called on to introduce my product. Stepping up in front of my classmates was immediately calming- the support and acceptance was […]
Being part of the Goddard family has blessed me with the opportunity to express myself in ways that are extremely natural to me. Creating art, and then being able to show it in this year’s Expressive Arts Exhibit, was a way to travel full-circle through my research and learning process. Coming from an art […]