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After the publication of the bestselling book The Artists' Way, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan, co-creators of the country's most successful course on creativity, were often told that their techniques helped people achieve their business goals. This spurred them to refine the methods to help people perform more creatively and effectively at work. The program is revealed in The Artists' Way at Work: a twelve-week encounter with your own ingenuity, struggles, strengths and dreams -- as well as the political guidance to enable you to get things done.
Through powerful self-assessment exercises with intriguing titles such as "Power Inside vs. Power Outside," "Developing Creative Continuity," and "Finding Your Truth," readers learn to release their creative spirit at work and tap reserves of energy, vision, and passion. The Artists' Way at Work will help you excel in your job, launch the business of your dreams, or find the career you love. Best of all, you will learn to "live in the paradox" -- to develop a personal philosophy of excellence that sustains you, whatever the future holds.
The processes in this book are rooted in cutting-edge principles of human development, organizational behavior, and the arts. They have been rigorously tested among business audiences and will unleash a degree of satisfaction at work (and in life) you may never have believed possible. For every one of us who works, The Artists' Way at Work reveals a completely new way to thrive.
Author Notes
Mark Bryan is a Harvard-trained educator with a specialty in human development & psychology. He is currently Director of the Father Project, a private foundation devoted to reuniting fathers with their children. A former member of The Dialogue Project at MIT, Bryan has taught adult transformation (self-help) skills in settings as diverse as the Penn State Engineering School, Esalen, the city halls of Moscow, Gorky & Kazan, The "Oprah Winfrey Show," & the boardrooms of American corporations. He is also on Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci's task force for Father Absence & Child Support, & his work reuniting fathers & children helped forge new legislation in several states. He lives in Los Angeles.
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A follow-up to the authors' million-copy best seller, The Artist's Way. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. xv |
| Tool: Entering the Gate | p. xxi |
| Part 1 The First Transformation | |
| Week 1 Emergence | p. 2 |
| Tools: Morning Pages | p. 5 |
| Creative Colleague | p. 10 |
| Secret Selves | p. 11 |
| Listening to the Chorus | p. 14 |
| Inner Mentor | p. 16 |
| Check-in | p. 20 |
| Creativity Contract | p. 20 |
| Part 2 The First Transformation | p. 22 |
| Week 2 The Roar of Awakening | p. 24 |
| Tools: Time-out | p. 29 |
| The Dialogue | p. 30 |
| Archaeology, Round One | p. 34 |
| Archaeology, Round Two | p. 36 |
| The Us and Them List | p. 38 |
| Imaginary Lives | p. 40 |
| Affirmations and Blurts | p. 41 |
| Customized Affirmations | p. 43 |
| Dumping the Albatross | p. 47 |
| Walking Your Wisdom | p. 49 |
| Check-in | p. 49 |
| The Second Transformation | p. 50 |
| Week 3 Soaring | p. 52 |
| Tools: Secrets | p. 53 |
| Watching the Rapids | p. 55 |
| Wish List | p. 57 |
| Leadership Quiz | p. 59 |
| Explore a Sacred Space | p. 62 |
| Secretly, I'd Like to | p. 65 |
| Watch the Picture Without the Sound | p. 67 |
| Filling the Form | p. 69 |
| Check-in | p. 70 |
| Part 1 The Third Transformation | p. 72 |
| Week 4 The Abyss | p. 74 |
| Tools: Admitting Our Emotions | p. 76 |
| Anger as Map | p. 78 |
| Metabolism | p. 78 |
| Footholds for Optimism | p. 79 |
| Countering Our Critics | p. 80 |
| True Confessions | p. 80 |
| Define Your Inner Wall | p. 83 |
| Workaholism Quiz | p. 85 |
| Bottom Line | p. 87 |
| Signposts | p. 87 |
| The "Fraudian Slip" | p. 89 |
| Check-in | p. 90 |
| Part 2 The Third Transformation | p. 92 |
| Week 5 Surviving the Abyss | p. 94 |
| Tools: Personal Accounting | p. 96 |
| Emotional Solvency | p. 96 |
| Counting | p. 97 |
| Luxury | p. 100 |
| Lapping Up Luxury | p. 100 |
| Nasty Rules | p. 101 |
| The Dream Account | p. 103 |
| Explore Your Feelings About God | p. 106 |
| Going to Take a Miracle | p. 106 |
| Wondering | p. 108 |
| Check-in | p. 109 |
| The Fourth Transformation | p. 110 |
| Week 6 The Pearl of Wisdom | p. 112 |
| Tools: Body English | p. 114 |
| At the Wheel of a New Machine | p. 114 |
| A Letter to the Self | p. 117 |
| Positive/Negative Poles | p. 120 |
| Media Deprivation | p. 124 |
| Reconnecting the Dots: Detective Work | p. 124 |
| Beyond Price | p. 126 |
| Meeting the Inner Rebel | p. 126 |
| Check-in | p. 127 |
| The Fifth Transformation | p. 128 |
| Week 7 Learning (and Teaching) | p. 130 |
| Tools: Being a Beginner | p. 132 |
| The Jealousy Map | p. 133 |
| Creativity Quiz | p. 134 |
| Feel, Think, Wish | p. 137 |
| Getting Current | p. 139 |
| The Hidden Resume | p. 141 |
| Becoming Right-Sized | p. 146 |
| Taking Note | p. 148 |
| Nurturing Nutrients | p. 151 |
| The Forest Environment | p. 152 |
| Check-in | p. 154 |
| The Sixth Transformation | p. 156 |
| Week 8 Teaching (and Learning) | p. 158 |
| Tools: Roles | p. 161 |
| Biosketches | p. 163 |
| Family Functions | p. 169 |
| Containment | p. 172 |
| The Power Dance | p. 173 |
| Unmasking Machiavelli | p. 177 |
| Practicing the Present | p. 177 |
| Mentor Magic | p. 180 |
| Going Sane | p. 184 |
| "Dear Boss" | p. 186 |
| Stopping the Spiral | p. 188 |
| Releasing Resentments | p. 190 |
| Check-in | p. 191 |
| The Seventh Transformation | p. 192 |
| Week 9 Owning our Ambition | p. 194 |
| Tools: Clearing Fear | p. 195 |
| Contacting Clark Kent | p. 199 |
| Local Color | p. 201 |
| The Resentment Resume | p. 201 |
| Blasting Through Blocks | p. 202 |
| Succeeding with Success | p. 206 |
| Framing Our Lives | p. 207 |
| Check-in | p. 207 |
| The Eighth Transformation | p. 208 |
| Week 10 Living with Passion | p. 210 |
| Tools: Positive Inventory | p. 212 |
| Laugh or Lament | p. 213 |
| Box Seats | p. 215 |
| Heartbreak Hotel--Loss as a Lesson | p. 220 |
| The Net of Nurturing | p. 224 |
| Check-in | p. 225 |
| Part 1 The Ninth Transformation | p. 226 |
| Week 11 The Ledge of Authenticity | p. 228 |
| Tools: Name Your Poison | p. 232 |
| Creative U-turns | p. 233 |
| Ten-Minute Time-outs | p. 235 |
| Valuing Our Values | p. 236 |
| The Ledge of Authenticity | p. 237 |
| Exercising Our Options | p. 244 |
| Creativity Center | p. 245 |
| Choose a Spirit Mentor | p. 247 |
| Spirit Mentors | p. 247 |
| Check-in | p. 248 |
| Part 2 The Ninth Transformation | p. 250 |
| Week 12 Resting in Authenticity | p. 252 |
| Tools: Trusting Trust | p. 253 |
| Mining Our Mystery | p. 256 |
| Building a House | p. 257 |
| Succeeding at Success | p. 259 |
| Playing at Play | p. 262 |
| Every Picture Tells a Story | p. 263 |
| Gratitude | p. 263 |
| Check-in | p. 264 |
| Epilogue | p. 265 |
| Suggested Reading | p. 266 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 268 |
| How to Reach Us | p. 269 |
| Index | p. 271 |
