Engaging Creativity/Riding Change with David La Chapelle

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How do we deal effectively with the accelerating tides of change sweeping over us everyday? How can knowing about the challenges we face in the world today stimulate our creativity? David La Chapelle, an environmental writer and leader of over 150 Wilderness Quests weaves together insights integrating psychology, meditation, story telling and the creative process answering this global question. Raised on an Alaskan glacier and nurtured in the mountains of Colorado, La Chapelle's childhood was a life of lessons about the wisdom of the earth. These lessons propelled him into a life devoted to science and the sacred. "I would call myself a cosmic ecologist," says La Chapelle. "One who undertakes this work should be ultimately curious." La Chapelle's passions are around healing, personal and societal transformation, mysticism, ecology and the intricacies of primary relationships. He invites you to connect deeply with nature, as well as with yourself and others. (hosted by Michael Toms)

Bio

Davie La Chapelle is the author of:

• Navigating the Tides of Change: Stories from Science, the Sacred and a Wise Planet (New Society Press 2001)

Topics Explored in This Dialogue

• Why your pain and discomfort are imperative for your creative process
• How can you find reason and order out of a chaotic universe
• Learn how to trust your deeper capacities and generate trust in yourself and others
• Why, in moments of grace, do we sometimes feel discomfort?
• Why one of the most powerful things you can do for yourself is take a three or four day retreat in nature
• Understand why when you experience a psychophysical transformation you are a different person than before you experienced it