Celebrate, invigorate, collaborate!
The rising tide of internal and external institutional pressures affect us all in academia. We confront burn out, depleting funds, unending expectations; and we all deserve an opportunity to celebrate and to regenerate our teaching and scholarship in imaginative, empowering and transformative ways.
The internationally renowned PAINT YOUR LIFE TM (PYL) creative game system takes participants through a sequential and interlocking series of structured and personalized artistic experiences, which are by now 100% successful in empowering educators to discover their own, often well-hidden, aptitudes.
Imagine discovering new modes of inquiry, approaches to problem-solving in your field or re-invigorating your teaching and your students— whether you are in your 5th or 25th year in higher education, PAINT YOUR LIFE TM can, and will, jump start the untapped potential waiting within all of us waiting to be discovered.
Imagine boosting self-confidence and joy in experimenting in a world of ideas without words and using this experience to transform your college and your work.
Imagine uncovering life-transforming techniques to transmit your area of expertise to your own students, thus transforming their own learning experiences and capturing the essence of course-related concepts and ideas in radical ways that reach even the most challenging students.
WHAT ARE THE PAINT YOUR LIFE TM WORKSHOP GAMES ABOUT?
For one full day, immerse yourself in a series of creative experience where you explore new connections 1) with others from across campus, 2) with innovative ideas, and 3) with yourself.
From China to Africa and Europe, PAINT YOUR LIFE TM has opened personal doors to creativity, revealed hidden talents and aptitudes and empowered participants with new ideas, original art concepts and magnetic insights. Using the PYL system one learns quickly that hidden aptitudes in ourselves and others are the norm, not the exception.
Best of all, no artistic experience is required!
Last Workshop Date:
Friday, April 22, 2016, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., West Village Commons (0307) Meeting Room 4
http://fusion.towson.edu/www/SignupGeneric/index.cfm?type=OAI
INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORKSHOP FACILITATOR:
Dr. Morna McDermott, Associate Professor at Towson University in the College of Education, is also a PAINT YOUR LIFE TM trained facilitator and has been working in the field of education for 20 years. She has created arts-integration programs and activities for K-12 learners, as well as pre-service teachers and “seasoned” classroom teachers across the country. Other areas of specialization include arts-based educational research, pre-service teacher mentoring, and developing democratic curricula for a socially just society.
