Creative Evaluation & Engagement

09/28/2022

music heals 🎶

Posted • Everyone has different opinions of the benefits of music. Some that we found to be true is the following;

- Music elevates mood by boosting the brain's production of dopamine.
- It reduces stress.
- Music can help "pick you up" much like exercise which reduces the symptoms of depression.
- Music eases pain by reducing the perceived intensity of pain, especially in geriatric care, intensive care or palliative medicine.
- It increases workout endurance. It sort of takes you away from counting the clock.

What does music do for you? Please add to the list in this thread.

06/15/2022

Just saw this quote and I am very much into it.

04/30/2022

Creative Evaluation and Engagement is not a pass fail exercise. It is not arbitrary judgement. It’s about people people learning and changing together. Want to know more? DM us!

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04/21/2021

The act of creation is often an act of birth. What if we thought of creative evaluation and engagement as part midwifery, part hospice? Welcoming the new and graciously letting go of what no longer serves.

04/20/2021

Traditional management and evaluation training privileges rational thinking. "Don't be irrational," they say. "Use your brain." "Think clearly." We say, "Go ahead. Use your heart and intuition. Call on your ancestors. Access all of the ways you know and perceive." This is the only way to lean into

04/19/2021

Right now there are people on social media trying to say that armed police are the only way to keep community safe. We, in the community, know that it's up to us to keep each other safe. We are writing our own stories. We are creating our own myths.

11/26/2019

“In our social justice work, we’re not doing the best job of training young organizers around the tool of art and why it could be a part of the lexicon of making change.” --Patrisse Cullors, creator of online MFA program to develop new artist-activistshttps://lat.ms/34o9dZ5

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors leads the new Social and Environmental Arts Practice MFA program at Prescott College.