News & Highlights

2011 HIGHLIGHTS

A high­light of this year is this web­site! I want to thank Ron Wheat­ley, who has single-handedly done the web­mas­ter­ing for this beau­ti­ful site. I also want to thank Brian Johnson’s team, who helped us with cer­tain sticky pieces of code. I also want to thank the many folks who have come for­ward to con­tribute to this site, whether to Ten Tips, World­wide Per­spec­tives, Artist’s Voice, or one of our other fea­tures. Thanks to all!

This year saw the release of my book Mas­ter­ing Cre­ative Anx­i­ety from New World Library. Thanks to Geor­gia Hughes and all the folks at New World Library for their ongo­ing com­mit­ment to pub­lish­ing inter­est­ing books <smile>, includ­ing my next book with them, Rethink­ing Depres­sion, which appears early 2012. In all, count­ing some beau­ti­ful jour­nals we did together, I believe that Rethink­ing Depres­sion will be my tenth book with New World Library (books that have included Coach­ing the Artist Within and the paper­back ver­sion of The Van Gogh Blues). A very big thanks!

Prob­a­bly what will prove my biggest news of 2011 are my efforts to con­sol­i­date, inte­grate and expand upon my ideas about mak­ing mean­ing into a coher­ent new phi­los­o­phy I’m call­ing noimet­ics, from the Greek word for mean­ing noima. You can learn more about noimet­ics by join­ing me for the class I’m teach­ing with the Acad­emy for Opti­mal Liv­ing called Noimet­ics: Bring Mean­ing to Life! It begins Novem­ber 2 and is open for enroll­ment now. I’m also doing a sec­ond class with the Acad­emy, one called Your Best Life in the Arts that will sig­nif­i­cantly help cre­ative and per­form­ing artists meet the chal­lenges they reg­u­larly face. I’m really look­ing for­ward to shar­ing what I’ve learned from my two decades work­ing with cre­ativ­ity coach­ing clients. It begins Octo­ber 3 and it too is open for enrollment.

To catch me live, I’ll be pre­sent­ing in Sep­tem­ber at the beau­ti­ful Omega Insti­tute in upstate New York, where I’ll be doing a Cre­ativ­ity Coach­ing Expe­ri­ence work­shop; then I’ll be down in Savan­nah at the Savan­nah Col­lege of Arts and Crafts to deliver a vari­ety of work­shops; and after that I head to Palm Beach to present a work­shop on cre­ative recov­ery at the Power, Fame & Recov­ery Con­fer­ence. So it’s Rhinebeck, Savan­nah, and Palm Beach in September!

More soon!