Engelmann is a writer and designer. She was born and raised in the American Midwest, then moved to Sweden after completing university studies in drawing and design. The city of Malmö was homebase for eight years, but she now lives just north of NYC. The November issue of O, the Oprah Magazine reviewed The Stockholm Octavio, her… Continue reading Karen Englemann
Category: Master’s Degree
December 2012 Achievements
December was a big month for Goddard’s MFAW program with our alumni and faculty earning major kudos in the professional world! This month The Silver Linings Playbook (shown at right), a Hollywood film based on Goddard alumnus (MFAW ’07) Matthew Quick’s thesis novel, was released by the Weinstein Company. Starring Robert De Niro, Bradley… Continue reading December 2012 Achievements
Student Led Expressive Arts Workshops
An important aspect of Expressive Arts Workshops at Psychology and Counseling residencies is the fact that many are created and led by students. Here, student Tanya Sapula tells the story of her experience leading a workshop at the Fall 2012 Residency: Art is the ultimate practice of being vulnerable. Whether you like it or… Continue reading Student Led Expressive Arts Workshops
Silence
With November recently behind us, writers across America are slumped over their keyboards, having endured another NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, in which the name of the game is cranking out as many pages of one’s novel as possible in thirty days. Years ago when I first heard about this month of extreme page… Continue reading Silence
The Mediocre Meditator #3: My Three Best Books on Meditation
Below are brief descriptions of my current three favorite books on meditation. Each one is written by psychologists who have been practicing psychotherapists and meditators for more than 25 years. I use them for reference, inspiration and companionship. I reread them and refer them to clients, friends, students and colleagues. Radical Acceptance (Bantam Books, 2003)… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator #3: My Three Best Books on Meditation
November 2012 Achievements
FACULTY Paul Selig spoke and signed copies of The Book of Love and Creation at the Ark Bookstore in Santa Fe, NM on November 15th. Michael Klein has just been asked to write a bi-monthly column starting in 2013 for the Los Angeles Review of Books. A terrific review of Michael Klein’s new book, The… Continue reading November 2012 Achievements
Making a Safe and Empowering Birth Culture: Interview with Alumna Amy Chavez
17 years ago, Amy Chavez (BA HAS ’11, MA HAS ’13) paused her college career in order to raise her two daughters, now 16 and 13. While raising her children, Amy became a doula, studied herbalism, received her associate degree in science, a massage therapy license, and became a childbirth educator and prenatal yoga instructor. In the… Continue reading Making a Safe and Empowering Birth Culture: Interview with Alumna Amy Chavez
October 2012 Achievements
FACULTY NEWS Richard Panek has won the 2012 American Institute of Physics Science Communication Award for his book The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality. Jeanne Mackin (aka Anna Maclean) was invited to be the guest speaker at the annual meeting for “The Friends of Dickens New York,” a… Continue reading October 2012 Achievements
Creative Final Products in the Psychology and Counseling Program
The last work of the Master of Arts degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Goddard College is the “Final Product.” This work represents a culmination and integration of coursework, and may take the form of a thesis or a Capstone Product. Each student makes his or her own decision about which of the… Continue reading Creative Final Products in the Psychology and Counseling Program
On Sandy and Natural Disasters: A Garbage Man's Perspective
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation, Paul Gordon (MFAIA ’13) has published on the Huffington Post his reflections on cleaning up after a natural disaster. As a garbage man in Binghamton, NY during flooding in 2006 and 2011, Paul witnessed the damage, loss, and range of human reactions that emerged in the days and… Continue reading On Sandy and Natural Disasters: A Garbage Man's Perspective
Writing Schedules and Inspiration
by Ryan Boudinot I get asked a lot of questions about how to develop good writing habits. Mostly this boils down to the idea of keeping a schedule. Depending on what stage I’m in with whatever novel I happen to be working on, I’ve found that my writing schedule changes. When I’m writing a… Continue reading Writing Schedules and Inspiration
An Integrative Approach to Crohn's Disease
Four years ago, Carina Rockland (BA HAS ’13) was hospitalized for six weeks with an unknown diagnosis. She had severe abdominal pains and was malnourished, vulnerable to septic shock, and showing no signs of improvement. Just after Carina’s last surgery, weak and perilously underweight, a gifted acupuncturist visited her hospital room and helped Carina feel… Continue reading An Integrative Approach to Crohn's Disease
Bricks and Mortar
It’s late 2012, and the long-promised death of print (predicted somewhere on a Mayan calendar, I’m told), has yet to happen. I live in Seattle, birthplace of Amazon and the Kindle (full disclosure: I worked for Amazon twice, once from 1998-2000, again from 2004-2007), and yet I still see people leaning against bus stop posts… Continue reading Bricks and Mortar
"Temporary Home:" A Residency Performance by MFAIA student, Misha Penton
Using one of the abandoned military bunkers on the bluffs of Fort Worden State Park, Misha Penton (MFAIA ’13) created a site-specific performance during the fall 2012 residency for the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program at our Port Townsend, Washington site. Watch the beautiful video below. Temporary Home (edit 5’44”): A contemplative monodrama exploring the… Continue reading "Temporary Home:" A Residency Performance by MFAIA student, Misha Penton
The Mediocre Meditator: First Encounter
I discovered meditation about fifteen years ago. It was not something I expected and it happened like this: I was at a day-long Continuing Education workshop designed for mental health professionals like myself, Counselors, Social Workers and Psychologists. All of us need a certain amount of hours of formal learning every two years to keep… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator: First Encounter
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Meets the Buddha
At the end of my self-compassion workshop this semester in the Psychology & Counseling Program I overheard a student saying, “I’m so glad to hear I could just meditate for ten minutes. I always thought it had to be a whole long thing.” This blog is for those who thought they could never meditate,… Continue reading Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Meets the Buddha
Fall 2012 Achievements
The faculty, alumni and students of the Goddard College MFAW program are enjoying great success in the publishing, literary and theatrical worlds. Here are their recent accomplishments. Faculty Audio versions of two of Rachel Pollack’s novels “Temporary Agency” and “Godmother Night” will be produced by Audible Books. Rachel also gave a reading at the… Continue reading Fall 2012 Achievements
MFAIA Port Townsend Residency Workshop
Scene from the MFAIA Port Townsend Residency
Program Director Paul Selig’s October 2012 Events and Appearances
New interview on the cable show Waking Universe: Paul Selig will be on a new episode of the BIO channel’s “The uneXplained” this Saturday, Oct. 6th at 10:00 PM ET/9:00c. Upcoming workshops and book signings for The Book of Love and Creation (Tarcher/Penguin 2012): Heart and Soul Center of Light in Oakland, CA on Friday,… Continue reading Program Director Paul Selig’s October 2012 Events and Appearances