by Evan Dwan | Mar 28, 2020 | News |
Positive emotions open the mind, encourage creativity, make threatening information easier to take on board, and facilitate cooperation. There are three aspects to emotions: we experience them as sensations in the body, words or images in the mind, and ‘action...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 3, 2019 | News |
“it’s not the large things that send a man to the madhouse…it’s the continuing series of small tragedies…a shoelace that snaps with no time left … The dread of life is that swarm of trivialities that can kill quicker than cancer and which are always there” Charles...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 3, 2019 | News |
What is good work? It is in our nature as human beings that we are both active and social. We are active in so far as we are designed to perform certain functions. We can move, manipulate, make things, communicate. We have agency, the ability to effect and change the...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 12, 2019 | News |
The sense of possibility is one of the most enlivening experiences we can have. Possibility is potentiality, prospect, hope. The open-ended, uncertain nature of life allows for possibility…to be possible! The future is unwritten, unknown, in which new things can...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 21, 2019 | News |
“In talking about creativity, let us consider its two possible meanings: creativity in the sense of creating something new, something which can be seen or heard by others, such as a painting, a sculpture, a symphony, a poem, a novel, etc., or creativity as an...