Engaging students in artmaking, Lily Yeh transforms a derelict Beijing factory into a vibrant beautiful school for migrant workers' children.

The resource is designed to help spiritual directors and others use expressive arts in the context of spiritual direction. It is the latest book in the unique SDI series, designed for professional spiritual directors, but also useful for clergy, therapists, and Christian formation specialists. The Spiritual Directors International Series – This book is part of a special series produced by Morehouse Publishing in cooperation with Spiritual Directors International (SDI), a global network of some 6,000 spiritual directors and members.

Coming up with new ideas for your student ministry can be grueling. After a while, you may find yourself tapped for creative ideas. But you're not alone! Les Christie will help you explore the stumbling blocks, the tricks of the trade, and the catalysts to creativity, helping you tap into your own creativity and look at your ministry in innovative ways.

Creativity, being creative, is a skill that without a doubt today will give you more possibilities and advantages to stand out, it will give you that plus you need to be above the rest of the people, brands or your competition. Today, we live in a very competitive world, with voracious competition in any part of the market, in any field. Those who are more disciplined, more productive and have more ability, tend to get better results, but there is something that is extremely important today to be able to stand out from the rest, a skill like creativity is totally necessary to be able to deal with all that immense competition that exists, since only by striving and working hard to achieve something, it may not be enough, you may be missing something else to stand out. A new idea needs to be creative enough for it to thrive, we need to be creative to stand out from the rest and not only that, but we also have to take that idea we have, that creative idea and make it a reality. This applies to any kind of work you do, whether you have a small business, are a sculptor, musician, painter, content creator, writer, sell some kind of service, have a big company or whatever. Content: Introduction What is exactly creativity? Learn to manage energy Types of creativity How to awaken creativity and be more creative Creative process How to maintain inspiration and motivation Develop curiosity How to stay focused Willpower Being creative also needs to be accompanied by several factors such as motivation, willpower, managing our energy or focus, as a combination of all these elements will not only help you to be more productive, but it can also ensure you success in what you do

Awakening illuminates key discoveries in the sciences, theology, psychology, spirituality, humanities, and peace and conflict studies. The process of awakening is seen through the lens of emergent creativity and spirituality with a view toward taking responsibility for relationships and creating justice.

Waking Up Grey offers readers ways to reconnect with their God-given capacity to create. Join others in an intimate journey of rediscovery. Experience how God has wired many to participate in and enjoy the creative process. Readers include professional artists desiring more fullness, those pondering the question of their creative existence, and everyone in between. Waking Up Grey be read as part of group study or individually.

The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today "[An] insightful debut....Featuring meticulous research and elegant turns of phrase, Stahr’s engrossing account provides scholarly though accessible analysis for both feminists and art lovers." —Publisher's Weekly Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place, one filled with magnificent beauty, horrific poverty, racial tension, anti-Semitism, ethnic diversity, bland Midwestern food, and a thriving music scene, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear, cracks in her marriage widened, and tragedy struck, twice while she was living in Detroit. Frida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo.