Getting Messy: A Guide to Taking Risks and Opening the Imagination for Teachers, Trainers, Coaches and Mentors - Softcover

Hermanson, Kim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0578011905 ISBN 13: 9780578011905

Publisher: RawBerry Books, 2009

Synopsis

Teaching at its best is a messy process. Messy means we're human, we make mistakes, and often when we're trying something for the first time, we have no idea how it's going to turn out. But it’s only when we step out of the mold and allow a little disarray that learning and growth begin to happen. Getting Messy is a helpful friend and guide for those times when you feel nervous about stepping into something new and unknown. You will:

• Find your voice and own your inner brilliance
• Lead a group with beginner's mind
• Uncover inspiration when you most need it
• Recognize and utilize the creative wisdom in the room
• Turn the messy business of being human into the stuff that makes you grow

Shakti Gawain exclaimed, “I love this book!” and Jennifer Louden said Getting Messy was one of her favorite books on teaching. Teachers of all kinds have said Getting Messy is brilliant and inspiring. If you teach, train, coach, mentor, or work in any way with other humans, Getting Messy is a profound and in-depth resource.

About this title

About the Author

Kim Hermanson, Ph.D. is a pioneering educator and faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is the author of Deep Knowing: Entering the Realm of Non-Ordinary Intelligence, a 2022 National Indie Excellence Award winner, Getting Messy: A Guide to Taking Risks & Opening the Imagination for Teachers, Trainers, Coaches & Mentors, and Sky's the Limit: The Art of Nancy Dunlop, which received an Independent Publisher Book Award. Her seminars attract visionaries, pioneers, and trailblazers who are 'pushing the wall' with her to bring forth a new world.

From the Back Cover

"I loved this book!"
SHAKTI GAWAIN, AUTHOR OF LIVING IN THE LIGHT AND OTHER BOOKS.

"Getting Messy is an invitation to a radically different way of teaching, one that emphasizes the human over the mechanical and the ethical over the material. Kim Hermanson shows us how we might step away from an image of ourselves as masters and commanders clinging uneasily to our puny authority in the midst of a whirlwind, and embrace instead a sense of being pilgrims - side by side with our students - on an immense and never-ending journey of discovery and surprise."
WILLIAM AYERS, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

"Getting Messy opens a courageous path for teachers."
AFTAB OMER, PRESIDENT, MERIDIAN UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL AND RESEARCH CENTER

"Kim Hermanson's beautifully written book is a wonderful guide to skillful teaching."
HOWARD SCHECHTER, AUTHOR OF JUPITER'S RINGS AND OTHER BOOKS

"Getting Messy is a revolutionists' handbook. Truly a timely book."
JIM CONLON, DIRECTOR, SOPHIA CENTER, HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITY

Edition details

• Publisher: RawBerry Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0578011905
• ISBN 13: 9780578011905
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260