Product Description An award-winning psychologist and professional photographer join forces in this unique creative guide to exploring and understanding your life: who you are, what you value, and what you wish to achieve.
A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life brims with imaginative exercises and examples that use the power of photography, art, and writing as tools for self-discovery. It provides clear and accessible guidance on how to explore different parts of your identity: take a photograph of yourself in a role you don't typically play, draw a visual timeline of your life and consider its key turning points; explore your sense of place in history by writing about a major historical event that has changed your life. Exercises are accompanied by searching questions for self-reflection, and are complemented by examples of each exercise to provoke ideas and inspiration.
Suitable for anyone who is curious about their life and identity, this book offers a dynamic and enjoyable way for you to explore different aspects of your life. It also features additional guidance for teachers, counselors, and other professionals who wish to explore this material in a group context.
Customer Reviews:
Engaging and inspiring November 19, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As someone who has written about creativity, I often get sent how-to-be-creative books. They are typically cloying and empty, sticky with platitudes. This book rises impressively above that gummy mass. One reason is Graham Ramsay's multidisciplinary talent--besides his work as a photographer and author, he is a professional composer. This keeps his exercises from getting mired in a single approach; they are accessible to people without particular artistic skills. Holly Sweet ably provides a psychological gloss on the process that makes the book useful for readers whose goal is to contemplate their own lives. The combination makes the book useful not only for artists, but for anyone who is self-reflective and wants to step out of their usual way of thinking about their life. Students who are thinking about their place in the world will find this book a great aid. But I was struck by how older adults too, looking back over a lifetime of snapshots and memorabilia, can use this book's approach to make sense of their lifetime of experience.
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