Psychjourney Audio Book Club

Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration

Length-42 minutes, 46 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Keith Sawyer author of Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration published by Basic Books.

Dr. R. Keith Sawyer

R. Keith Sawyer is one of the country's leading experts on the science of creativity. He studies creativity, everyday conversation, children's play and everyday social life. He is particularly interested in group dynamics and collaboration. He is the author of numerous books including Pretend Play as Improvisation (1997), Creating Conversations (2001) and Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation (2006). His topics of research include business innovation, organizational dynamics in work teams, children's play and preschool, artistic and scientific creativity and language and conversation research.  Visit his website.

Courageous Visions: How to Unleash Passionate Energy in Your Life and Your Organization

Length-22 minutes, 52 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Martha Lasley, M.B.A., author of Courageous Visions: How to Unleash Passionate Energy in Your Life and Your Organization published by Fireside.

Ms. Martha Lasley, MBA

Martha Lasley, MBA is a founder of Leadership that Works, a firm that develops dynamic leaders at all levels. She is one of the founding faculty at CoachingthatWorks.com. Martha’s passion is training and developing Leadership Coaches using nonviolent communication. She has presented several programs at the annual conference for International Association of Facilitators. She facilitates action learning teams and founded Leader Networks for Executive Directors of Nonprofits. Since 2002 she has been on the faculty for Capella University where she has taught more than 60 MBA courses on coaching and leadership. Visit her website.

The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood

Length-46 minutes, 40 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz, author of The Brightening Glance, Imagination and Childhood published by Pantheon.

Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz

Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz is a professor in the Honors College and Department of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The author of Inside Pictures Books, she has written and lectured extensively on children's aesthetic and psychological development. A visual artist and dancer, she has taught at Columbia, Stanford, and New York University, among other academic institutions. She lives in Baltimore. Visit her webpage.

Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Hillary Carlip, author of Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan published by Harper.

Hillary Carlip

Award winning author and Multi-Mediast, Hillary Carlip's memoir Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan is an American Bookseller's Association Book Sense Pick, and was selected by Borders as one of the Top Literary Memoirs of 2006. She has appeared on countless radio and TV shows, including Oprah, who dedicated an entire episode to Hillary's first book, Girl Power: Young Women Speak Out, and the Ellen Degeneres Show, where she taught Ellen how to eat fire (complete with Liza Minnelli running onstage--unplanned--with a fire extinguisher!) Hillary's second book, Zine Scene, won an American Libray Association Award.

Hillary is the creator, host and editor of the acclaimed literary website FRESH YARN, an NPR commentator, an artist, and a creative and motivational consultant and speaker. Currently Hillary is working on her fourth book, and developing a network television show based on Queen of the Oddballs. You can find out more about her, see video clips, etc. at her website.

When Walls Become Doorways: Creativity and the Transforming Illness

Length-50 minutes, 47 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Tobi Zausner, Ph.D, author of When Walls Become Doors, Creativity and Transforming Illness, published by Harmony Books.

Tobi Zausner, Ph.D

Tobi Zausner, Ph.D. has an interdisciplinary doctorate in Art and Psychology. She is also an art historian and an award-winning visual artist with works in major museums and in private collections around the world. Dr. Zausner writes and lectures widely on the psychology of art, teaches at the G. Jung Foundation in New York, and is an officer on the Board of A.C.T.S (Arts, Crafts, and Theatre Safety), a non-profit organization investigating health hazards in the arts. For more information, please visit her website.

Career Management for the Creative Person

Career Management for the Creative Person

by  Mr. Lee Silber

Click here to listen.... (Length- 34 minutes, 18 seconds)