Category: Master’s Degree

Commencement Speech: “The Urgency To Believe or The Pragmatic Quality of Optimism”

By MFA in Creative Writing Faculty Advisor Darrah Cloud (BA ’78) February 15, 2015   Today you are graduating from Goddard College. I take this very seriously because I too graduated from Goddard College. So did my sister, who runs the most innovative Institute for Sustainability Education in the world. Even now at her age,… Continue reading Commencement Speech: “The Urgency To Believe or The Pragmatic Quality of Optimism”

Student Sharon Hughes’ Expressive Arts Mandala Project

Below, Sharon discusses the mandala she made as part of her course in Psychopathology in Goddard College’s Psychology and Counseling’s Expressive Arts Therapy Emphasis Program. Artist Statement For psychologist, Carl Jung, a mandala symbolizes “a safe refuge of inner reconciliation and wholeness” (Robertson, 1992).  It is a fusion of distinctive elements in a unified scheme representing… Continue reading Student Sharon Hughes’ Expressive Arts Mandala Project

Anti-Fracking Alternative Spring Break

Goddard’s Undergraduate Studies Program is proud to co-sponsor the Shalefield Justice Spring Break from March 6-13, 2015. The seven-day training is being held in the Marcellus shalefields of eastern Pennsylvania. Undergraduate Student Myrto Schwab was selected by faculty to represent Goddard at the Shalefield Justice Spring Break. Myrto has been working with other Vermonters to… Continue reading Anti-Fracking Alternative Spring Break

The Mediocre Meditator Shares Stories From Mother and Daughter Goddard Students

Leslie Whitcomb, a graduate student in the Counseling and Psychology Program, sent me this story about her daughter Thora’s meditation practice.  Leslie is the mother of eight children and is currently doing her counseling internship in a community mental health clinic, where she has already been asked by two different staff to apply for a… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator Shares Stories From Mother and Daughter Goddard Students

Notes from the Field: Faculty News

Annie Abdalla is immersing in a creative project she calls, “The Process of Abstracting: Searching for Essence.” In Annie’s words: “I’m curious about the parallels between the habits of mind and the habits of mark-making. My work is turning to landscape – stimulated by my years of living in two very different landscapes each year,… Continue reading Notes from the Field: Faculty News

Notes from the Field: Alumni Notes

Aly Simpson (IBA ’14) joined faculty members Suzanne Richman and Bobby Buchanan at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) conference in New York City in November. Aly, who studied at IIN before coming to Goddard, performed and spoke about his educational experiences at Goddard in front of a huge audience of 1,200 people with 5,000-7,000… Continue reading Notes from the Field: Alumni Notes

Goddard in the World – Black Lives Matter

Goddard College asks, what can be done in response to the recent violence against our black citizens? A number of Goddard students, alumni and faculty shared news of their involvement with #Blacklivesmatter and related anti-racist organizing efforts around the country:   Ya-Ping Douglass (IBA ’16) and Nikhil Goyal (IBA ‘16) have been involved in various… Continue reading Goddard in the World – Black Lives Matter

New and Achievements – September 2014

STUDENTS & ALUMNI Coming soon to a bedroom near you…NOBODY’S HOME: a multi-sensory meditation-comedy on the nature of nothing, performed for extraordinary audiences in ordinary bedrooms.  An original play by Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews (IBA ’09, MFAIA ’16) and Mason Rosenthal of the Medium Theatre Company is now touring New York and will be coming to… Continue reading New and Achievements – September 2014

Student and Alumni Achievements

Catharine Slusar (MFAIA ’15) has been hired as tenure-track Assistant Professor of Theater at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Richard Ambelang (MFAIA ’12) has a solo show of medium format transparency photos, Approaching Abstraction: From the Montpelier Boxcars I & II Series, at City Center, Montpelier, Vt., through January 30, 2015. Wolf Luman (MFAIA ’16)… Continue reading Student and Alumni Achievements

Award-Winning Author Ruth Ozeki Visits Goddard College

Part of the MFA in Creative Writing Program Visiting Writer Series Plainfield, Vt. –Goddard College today announced novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki will be the visiting writer for its MFA in Creative Writing Program’s spring 2015 residency in Vermont. Ozeki’s first two novels, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), have been… Continue reading Award-Winning Author Ruth Ozeki Visits Goddard College

The Mediocre Meditator Tries To Disappear Into Her Suffering

Some of the meditation teachers I admire write or say things I have never heard before. Often these sentences simmer a long time on the back burner of my mind before I understand what they mean either in the abstract or to me. In his book Ending The Pursuit of Happiness  Barry Magid, the New York… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator Tries To Disappear Into Her Suffering

Multimodal Expressive Arts Seminars

At the fall 2014 residency, we explored Deborah Koff-Chapin’s practice, Touch Drawing.  We improvised and repurposed available surfaces (cafeteria trays, and cardboard covered with sheets of adhesive vinyl) as well as sheets of plexiglass. The surfaces were coated with oil paint, covered with newsprint and then we drew – from the unconscious using our hands… Continue reading Multimodal Expressive Arts Seminars

News and Achievements – October 2014

Students and Alumni A new anthology The Multispecies Salon, edited by Eben Kirksey, includes a chapter byKarin Bolender (MFAIA ‘07) about her R.A.W. Ass Milk Soap Project, and one by Kirksey about Deanna Pindell’s (MFAIA ’11) “recipes” for forest restoration.” The book and accompanying website document the vanguard of the emerging field of Multispecies Studies,… Continue reading News and Achievements – October 2014

The Mediocre Meditator: A Tale of Two Experiences

A friend and I went to a Meditation Workshop for Beginners. This was some time ago.  The workshop started at ten in the morning and ended at four. It consisted of  alternating periods of sitting or walking meditation, and then talks by the guiding teacher, followed by questions and answers. On the long drive home… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator: A Tale of Two Experiences

The Mediocre Meditator Deconstructs An Early Morning Moment Using Buddhist Psychology and Other Points of View

What can I say?  Every morning that I loll in bed past six a.m., which is to say most mornings, I am condemned. By whom?  Myself, of course. The judge within. This is how it goes: I’ve slept well. Outside the birds are trilling their light morning tunes.  Cotton sheets rub against my skin. It… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator Deconstructs An Early Morning Moment Using Buddhist Psychology and Other Points of View

Sharing Expressive Arts Work in Academic and Professional Settings

In the Psychology and Counseling Program at Goddard, we have many opportunities to share the personal Expressive Arts works that we have made. We also share, in experiences with clients, what we learn about the principles of Expressive Arts Therapy theory. We share work in our Expressive Arts Exhibit and Opening at residencies, in our dialogues… Continue reading Sharing Expressive Arts Work in Academic and Professional Settings

Todd Haynes

Writer, Director and Producer Todd Haynes has received numerous honors for directing and writing all of his films.  “Far From Heaven” garnered Academy Award, Golden Globe and WGA nominations for Best Screenplay as well as nominations from the Chicago Film Critics Association, European Film Awards, London Critics Circle Film Awards, Satellite Awards, and the Venice… Continue reading Todd Haynes

Tracie Morris

Tracie Morris, one of the country’s most exciting and popular spoken word poets, has worked steadily over the last decade to redefine the limits of what poetry, and a poet, can be. While she is the author of two poetry collections—Intermission and Chap-T-her Won—and has been anthologized in a host of literary volumes, an important part of… Continue reading Tracie Morris