Mentoring and things | Musings
Why are all these people so happy?
We all just began a big new experiment: COACHING PROJECT FOR A BETTER WORLD
Mentoring and things . Earlier this summer, while I was on vacation, my dear friend and coach Peggy told me about this opportunity with Art to Change the World. And then my friend Layl invited me to apply for the grant, to be a mentor. Perhaps the universe was trying to tell me something.
I really do love mentoring! So, I applied. I was accepted!
Coaching Project for a Better World
If you have read my blog for a while, you know that I believe in the transformative power of the arts. Believing in it to my very core. I believe that people, in contact with creativity, their own or others, are healthier and happier for it.
The arts provide alternate ways of knowing and experiencing the world more deeply. The arts can be a gateway to a new, peaceful, collaborative way of living in the world. Art to Change the World,a relatively new, small, energetic local non-profit cooked up and funded this question:
What if we put a young artist/performer/writer together with a mature artist and a scientist, designating the young artist as the project director for a personal social justice oriented project with the scientist and mature artist as mentors? What would happen? How would this collaboration and synergy manifest in the world?
This could be fun!
We all got together with the other two project teams and our trainers last week, on the patio of Sociable Cider Werks in Northeast Minneapolis. It was a day of teambuilding, brainstorming, artmaking and laughter in the fall sun. We learned a lot about one another and how we think and work.
Lauren’s project is about gender acceptance. The project is so new, it doesn’t have a title yet. But it does have a feeling: EUPHORIA. There is so much emphasis on “what is wrong,” as in dis-phoria. She wants to create a community artwork or event that is a celebration of gender, in whatever way that presents. Whatever is becomes, it will be fun. And it will be presented sometime next spring!
I am excited! These two people will be great to work with. There is kindness and laughter and our skills look like they will cobble together well.
STAY TUNED!
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