Kim Hermanson, Ph.D.

A Review of All the Time in the World by E.L. Doctorow

The following guest review of E.L. Doctorow's latest novel All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories, was written by Frank Rubenfeld Ph.D., Gestalt therapist and Adjunct Faculty at the ...

Creating Third Space When You Teach, Train, or Facilitate Groups

The other day someone asked me how to get to “third space” when one teaches or facilitates groups. Third space is that place of expanded knowing and intuitive wisdom that happens when two or more people come...

A Review of American Dervish

The following guest review of the novel American Dervish, was written by Frank Rubenfeld Ph.D., who is an Adjunct Faculty at the California Institute for Integral Studies. "This is a daring first novel by the playwright...

Basic Principles of the Creative Process

Creativity comes from the heart. Our hearts are what inspire our creativity. Listening to the heart's wisdom, we have the courage to do something different, try out new directions and explore new terrain. Creativity happens when...

Constructive creativity

Carl Rogers, in his book On Becoming a Person, wrote the following set of conditions for "constructive creativity" (I guess that would be as opposed to destructive creativity.)1) Openness to experience, which he called "...

Holding what we know in one hand, holding the other hand open

When I teach, I work with something I call "third space." Third space is that place of creative openness, when new possibilities have space to enter. When groups of any size come together in meaningful ways for...

Love is the essence of teaching

I fell in love with teaching 15 years ago when I was asked to teach a group of adult and vocational education instructors. My class included high school and elementary teachers, pre-school teachers, people who taught in nursing homes...

Good teaching

Aristotle said that it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. This ability to hold multiple perspectives is especially true for teachers. Teachers, at their best, are not presenting &ldquo...

Learning is a conversation

In the 1920s, Lincoln Steffans was a history student at the University of California Berkeley. As a freshman, he became engrossed in history and read everything he could find on the subject. It soon became clear to him, however, that...

Ten lessons the arts teach

The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.The arts teach children...

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