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February 18, 2010
Spontaneous Painting and Whole-Brain Learning
The Organization for the Arts
and Expressive Therapy
Susan Mintz-Bello, ATR, Ph.D.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
6:30pm
Albert Ellis Institute
45 E. 65th Street, NYC
NYSGS & FIONS Members: Free
Non-Members: $5
Long before written words, everyone expressed themselves through the many ways of Art: painting, music, song, images, dance, ritual. The language of symbolic images communicates a reality beyond ego-logical awareness.
Dr. Mintz-Bello is the creator of The Spontaneous Painting Process, an inner-directed art education method, applicable to people of all ages. It reconnects us to the emotional, creative, imaginative, intuitive, visual, kinesthetic, symbolic, and spiritual ways of knowing.
Everyone deserves to explore and develop these innate authentic multiple intelligences, the pathways that bring forth and develop each individual’s dormant and unique potentials. The goal of Whole Brain Learning is to integrate unconscious potential into consciousness through approaches like Spontaneous Painting.
In addition to learning how to communicate information we can learn how to express feelings, develop our creativity and authentic Self in the forgotten language of symbolic images. No artistic experience is necessary.
March 25, 2010
Preceding our March meeting
The NYSGS Annual Business & Election Meeting
Thursday, March 25, 2010
6:00pm
Albert Ellis Institute
45 E. 65th Street, NYC
March 25, 2010
A program co-sponsored with FIONS
The Organic Integration of Mind-Body-Spirit
Presenters
Hillel Schiller, Independent Scholar
Janet Pfunder, Focusing Practitioner
Janet Gignoux, IONS & FIONS Board Member
Thursday, March 25, 2010
6:30pm
Albert Ellis Institute
45 E. 65th Street, NYC
NYSGS & FIONS Members: Free
Non-Members: $5
This meeting offers a program co-sponsored by the Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
MIND
How may our education curricula be redesigned to avoid the fragmentation of knowledge? Lancelot Law Whyte (Alfred Korzybski Memrial Lecturer, 1969) proposed studying formative processes, the structured patterns of the sciences and the humanities. The use of language as static expressions of reality leads to absolutisms, contrary to the universality of change.
Hillel Schiller will present the unitary approach of L. L. Whyte, who wrote The Next Development in Man and The Universe of Experience. Mr. Schiller will discuss Whyte’s organic syntheses of heart, mind, and will, of emotion, thought, and action. The human imagination will be recognized as the supreme formative agent. The young in spirit may well imagine new developments. The next step is for man to surprise himself.
BODY
Janet Pfunder will introduce Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing process and his Philosophy of the Implicit. Focusing involves pausing and allowing a palpable “felt sense” to form in the experiencing body. Fresh phrases and images arise, and a new kind of knowing. As we attend to the subtle changes in our organismic happenings, and symbolize from our “felt sensing,” we gently carry life for-ard. Learning about Gendlin’s Philosophy of the Implicit will support our understanding of the Focusing process.
SPIRIT
There are many ways of knowing and experiencing whether in schools, in nature, in ordinary conversations, in meditation, or while coming back from the Moon, as Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell discovered. He and his colleagues founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences as a result of that profound experience, to explore and understand such events that touch the human spirit.
Jane Hughes Gignoux will relate how IONS and the New York Community Group Friends of IONS promote a greater understanding of our world by searching beyond accepted views of that world and our role in it.
FIONS brings together science and spirit through exploration, dialogue and practice, thereby affecting central quality-of-life issues.
WORLD CAFÉ
The World Café is a dialogic system of sharing and exploring our learning and knowledge. Ms. Gignoux will facilitate our forming small groups to discuss and harvest what we have been experiencing during the evening.
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