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BUILDING BEYOND BOUNDARIES

Have you ever heard of the term boundary rider? What exactly is a boundary rider? Boundary riders are people who are bridges—bridging people, ideas, concepts, etc.  together—and they tend to ride the boundaries of things due to their abilities to see things in a creative way. They actually echo the...

BEING A CREATIVE BRIDGE

Are you a creative? Do people usually express how they enjoy hanging around you because of the excitement of creativity you give off? Let’s think creativity for a moment. What does it mean to be creative but most importantly being a creative bridge? Interesting, right? How often do you think...

AN INTEGRATED BRAIN IS AN INTEGRATED LIFE

When thinking of the word integration, what generally comes to mind? Do we even correlate integration with the mind? Oftentimes, we don’t. Integration doesn’t just happen within the classroom; it also happens within your brain. Dr. Daniel Siegal, a neuropsychiatrist and the Mindsight educator out of UCLA, is a thought...

A SYMPHONY OF THE SENSES

Can you recall a joyful moment? Go ahead. Pick any joyful moment in the past. Within your imagination—your mind’s eye—look around and see where you are. Take in a deep breath and smell where you are. What does it smell like? What do you hear? What is next to you?...

LET’S MACGYVER IT! CREATIVE PERSPECTIVE-SHIFTING

Do you remember the 1980’s show MacGyver? This crime fighter could look at any random object and build whatever he needed to solve the case. If he only had a bubble gum wrapper, a paper clip, and a used piece of painter’s tape, he could build a bomb to blow...

JOURNEY OF A SNOWFLAKE

Snowflakes. Many things come to mind when thinking about snowflakes. We think of cold weather, the winter season, snow. Sometimes we even associate it with those cute elementary school projects where snowflakes were made out of construction paper, but have you ever thought about snowflakes from the perspective of a...