Trust the Process
An Artist's Guide to Letting Go
Published on 31. March 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-57062-357-8 (ISBN)
Description
A guide to embracing the ups and downs of the artistic process-and allowing them to carry you along your unique creative journey
Whether in painting, poetry, performance, music, dance, or life, there is an intelligence working in every situation. This force is the primary carrier of creation. If we trust it and follow its natural movement, it will astound us with its ability to find a way through problems-and even make creative use of our mistakes and failures.
There is a magic to this process that cannot be controlled by the ego. Somehow it always finds the way to the place where you need to be, and a destination you never could have known in advance.
When everything seems as if it is hopeless and going nowhere . . . trust the process.
Whether in painting, poetry, performance, music, dance, or life, there is an intelligence working in every situation. This force is the primary carrier of creation. If we trust it and follow its natural movement, it will astound us with its ability to find a way through problems-and even make creative use of our mistakes and failures.
There is a magic to this process that cannot be controlled by the ego. Somehow it always finds the way to the place where you need to be, and a destination you never could have known in advance.
When everything seems as if it is hopeless and going nowhere . . . trust the process.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
308 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57062-357-8 (9781570623578)
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Person
Shaun McNiff is internationally recognized as a founder and leading figure in the arts and healing field. University Professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he is past president of the American Art Therapy Association and the author of several other books including Art As Medicine, Trust the Process, and Creating with Others.