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Teleseminar for GNEAF Members - What You as a Solopreneur Need To Know about Business Law Stuff and Why
Posted on June 8, 2010 by Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli
What You as a Solopreneur Need To Know about Business Law Stuff and Why Thursday, June 10 at 1:00pm eastern.
Ever wonder whether you need to be thinking of the legal parts of your business?
Join me in welcoming Rebecca Prien, attorney, artist and owner of Counsel to Creativity, LLC, in leading us through the maze of law stuff that solopreneurs need for their businesses and why.
In this free teleseminar, you'll learn about:
1. The Three Basic Legal Tools that Creative Businesses Need 2. The Foundational Shift that Will Change How You Think About and Approach Your Business's Law Stuff 3. How to Evaluate What Your Business Specifically Needs
Rebecca specializes in "creativity-law-creativity" translation, providing legal counsel to right-brained entrepreneurs that harnesses their creativity to grow their businesses. She's committed to helping creative businesses thrive and believes that legal structures are key to a thriving, sustainable business. To get there, Rebecca connects with her clients through playing with language and drawing pictures, literally changing the way law is done. You can learn more about Rebecca and her practice at counsel-to-creativity.com
Posted on May 31, 2010 by Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli
Creativity & Expression: The Healing Power of the Arts in Healthcare June 4, 2010 ~ 9:00am - 5:00pm Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
Conference Description Lesley University and Whittier Street Health Center will host a regional conference to increase awareness of the use of the arts in healthcare. This one-day conference will highlight best practices and research on creativity, arts and healthcare that have emerged over the past 25 years.
The clinical applications of dance, drama, art, poetry, writing, music and expressive arts therapy is used in the care of patients at hospitals, community health centers, community programs, nursing homes, and numerous other health settings. The arts are also used to educate wider communities about the risk, prevention, and care for wide ranging public health, environmental, and medical issues including: obesity, asthma, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, cancer, heart disease, and violence as a health epidemic. Personal expression through creativity and the arts has the potential to access a body, mind, spirit continuum and has proven to be helpful in the process of healing and recovery.
The 'Creativity & Expression' conference is intended for a wide range of professionals interested in the arts and healthcare and the relationship between the two.
To Register COST: $45 standard fee ($55 if postmarked after May 15) $35 for Lesley students, alumni and faculty ($45 if postmarked after May 15) Note: Cost includes lunch.
CEU's: 6 LHMC CEU's are available for this conference for an additional $25 (will be collected the day of the conference)
call 617.349.8320
For more information, please e-mail Kate at kfrothin@lesley.edu or call 617.349.8320.
Expressive Arts Exercise - Using Clay to Create Your Fantasy Creature
Posted on May 18, 2010 by Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli
Using clay for yourself and/or with your clients is a wonderful and centering tactile expressive arts experience. The coolness of this organic, earthy substance in one's hands is quite calming. The clay can be molded, squeezed, manipulated, pounded, thrown, imprinted upon, rolled, sprayed, cut, and so much more. It is not surprising that working with clay can be great for stress release.
This exercise is from the book, "Therapy Techniques: Using the Creative Arts" by Ann Argé Nathan and Suzanne Mirviss.
Create A Fantasy Creature
Ask participants to imagine themselves as a creature and make that creature with the clay. Encourage each person to describe his/her creature or have it "speak" to the group. Ask each person to be his/her creature and introduce him/herself as "I am..." and/or to speak about what it's like to be that creature.
Variation: Ask group members to imagine themselves as an object or symbol (e.g. star, tree, mountain) and create that image in clay. Continue as above by having each person in the group introduce him/herself, for example, "I am the star burning inside, too hot to get close to..."
This exercise can be used with children, teens, adults, and seniors as long as they have movement in their hands and fingers.
If you're working with adults who are trying to find their life purpose, you could ask them to create the object that symbolizes success to them. Then have them speak from or about that symbol.
I think this exercise would be fantastic with children. I can already hear their creative answers. I'm guessing this would be best for kids 9 and older (4th grade). If you think kids younger than this could do it, please let me know or leave a comment.
As for seniors, this could be a chance for them to create their "Legacy Creature" or "Legacy Symbol" - what do they want to remembered as?
Posted on April 22, 2010 by Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli
SoulCollage® is a wonderfully intuitive collaging process that brings A-HA! moments, clarity, and just pure fun!
GNEAF has a few members that are SoulCollage® Facilitators and Training Instructors.
Seena Frost is the creator of the SoulCollage® process and the author of the book. You can hear Seena's story on the membership cds. She is one of the five inspirational interviews on the cds, which are part of the numerous membership benefits.
Posted on March 31, 2010 by Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli
On Creativity by GNEAF Member Shelley Berc
Leonardo da Vinci claimed he saw all his paintings in the humidity stains on his walls before ever lifting his brush. Herman Melville stared at Mount Greylock every day until one day it became that devilish cetacean Moby Dick. Children look up at the clouds and see houses, alligators, and dinosaurs rather than cumulus, nimbus, and cirrus. According to biologists, man can no longer be defined as different from other animals by virtue of speech or tool making. But we are absolutely unique in our dazzling ability to make metaphors. Creativity is the art of living metaphorically. We are all born creative, curious, and hungry to explore the world around and within us. For a child, creativity is expressed in play and play is the way he learns. Life is just one big erector set that is to be snapped together and pulled apart in a thousand different ways. But this flexibility often fades with the passage of time. Read More...
Facilitators Needed for Expressive Arts/Creativity Workshop
Posted on March 24, 2010 by Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli
Facilitators Needed for Expressive Arts/Creativity Workshop
for Oregon, USA - Application due April 7, 2010
Awesome opportunity at an idyllic location to be part of a collaborative workshop with other GNEAF members, please login and click the "Work Collaboration Opportunities" link to find all the details.
Lorena is an artist, poet and Expressive Arts Coach. She has kept a journal since she was eleven years old from which all her creative works arise: her poems, short stories, paintings and sculptures. She strongly believes in the power of art to elucidate the human experience.
Facilitators Needed for Expressive Arts/Creativity Workshop
Posted on February 27, 2010 by Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli
Facilitators Needed for Expressive Arts/Creativity Workshop
for Massachusetts - Application due March 5, 2010
A wonderful opportunity to be part of a collaborative workshop with other GNEAF members, please login and click the "Work Collaboration Opportunities" link.
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Thank you to GNEAF Member Karen Frostig for alerting us that the following modalities were missing from the mission statement:
