Marcia Mauskopf leads a multi-creative life. She photographs weddings and events. She writes magazine articles and poetry, creates bead art, and plays music. Her goal is to document the moments of each day with grace and beauty and she believes in capturing real moments in real time, as well as creating art for the home.
Marcia and Eric discuss how mindfulness can help with both the business aspects and creative process of the artist.
Judith Nasse and Eric focus on the creative process of writing children’s books. How do you maintain daily creativity and a positive outlook in the face of the long process, rejections, the inevitable doubts, and the plethora of conflicting attitudes from society and the publishing world? Also, Ten Zen Second techniques for children.
Kathryn Petro-Harper is a Renaissance woman; she has worked as a librarian, psychotherapist, and community advocate. She is also a self-taught artist, poet, and an omnivorous, voracious reader. Kathryn dedicates her life to igniting curiosity, promoting creative and critical thinking, and inspiring enthusiasm in people for lifetime learning. She believes passionately in the innate creativity…
Catherine is a poet, family historian and occasional quiltmaker who blogs about these topics in words and images, along with anything else that takes her fancy. Catherine and Eric chat about mindfulness techniques for finding a creative focus – in particular for those whose energies are necessarily spread in several directions (day job, family, and…
Claudia Dose’s live journal, “Flowers of My Mind,” hosts Eric Maisel. Learn: –how Ten Zen Second techniques can be used at the beginning of the creative process –and throughout the day to ward off negative thinking –and how the Ten Zen Second incantations differ from affirmations.
Ken is a technical writer, singer/songwriter, Web developer, instructional designer, and non-fiction junkie who blogs about the nature of creativity. What is it? Why do we do it? How can we bring more of it into our lives? He is a co-developer of the Creativity Happens workshop and currently in training as a creativity coach….
Quinn McDonald is a certified creativity coach. She designs and leads training programs on writing, giving presentations, and holding productive meetings. She is also a writer, speaker and artist. Her work has been published in Somerset Studio Magazine; The Crafts Report; Crafts Business Magazine; Sunshine Artist; Cloth, Paper, Scissors; Bead & Button, BeadWork, and American…