Healing Through Creativity - Desiree Cox MD, PhD

Are you another undiscovered Susan Boyle? Have you been dreaming a dream, quietly nurturing a talent, a gift, or some possibility of creative self-expression for 5, 10, 20, maybe 25 years or more? Maybe the dream has not yet come to fruition? Maybe you’re thinking you were a fool to still be entertaining other possibilities for yourself. Maybe you think its too late, you’re too old, you’ve missed the boat, or you still haven’t ‘made it’ far enough up the ladder of your ‘real’ job to be considering such ‘ridiculousness’ ? This week’s Healing Through Creativity brings together host Dr. Desiree Cox and ‘Operatunity’ finalist, Bahamian born Franz Hepburn (http://www.foley-hepburn.com/). Hepburn, a former civil servant and college business major is now a full-time bass-baritone opera singer and composer in the UK and internationally. Hepburn shares how the English National Opera’s 2003 UK nation-wide ‘Operatunity’ talent search, and the personal life-events that followed changed his life for good. The ENO’s ‘Operatunity’ call generated 2500 contestants. The contestants, all of them non-professional opera-singers submitted videotapes of their performances. One-hundred of these singers were invited for auditions; a final six singers were selected for intensive training. The entire journey - the hundred auditions and the intensive workshop training given to the finalists – was filmed for television and aired in 2003 in the show named ‘Operatunity’ on BBC Channel 4 television, PBS (USA), as well as Australian and Italian TV in 2003. Hepburn was one six finalist. He tells host Dr. Cox about the creative moment, the birth of the dream of being an opera-singer some 20 years before. Hepburn shares how this sense of music and singing was an important part of his full self-expression and fulfilment. Franz was born in Nassau, The Bahamas and started his formal music training at age seven with the piano. He received an AABA degree in Banking & Finance for the College of The Bahamas; a BBA degree in Marketing & Finance from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada; and an MBA degree from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. He was transferred from The Bahamas to the UK by the Bahamas Government in October 1990 to work at the Bahamas Tourist Office London. He worked at the tourist office from 1990-2004. Franz made his operatic debut in the world premiere of Our Boys, first Bahamian opera by Cleophas Adderley with the Juilliard School of Music Orchestra in 1987. Some of his operatic roles include Sarastro (Magic Flute), Publius (La Clemenza di Tito), Trulove (Rakes Progress), The King (Aida) and Sparafucile (Rigoletto). As one of the six finalists (selected from 2,500 entrants) on Channel 4's award winning Operatunity programme, he was interviewed and performed live on BBC Radio 3's In Tune programme in February 2003. Operatunity was aired on PBS in America and also on Australian and Italian television. Franz is also a composer and many of his works have been performed by choirs and soloists in The Bahamas, Caribbean, North America and Europe. In 2003, on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of Independence in The Bahamas, a special concert of music by Franz Hepburn was performed by JoAnn Deveaux-Callender, soprano at All Souls Church, Langham Place, London. The concert featured the world premiere of two song cycles - Introspection and Four Words. On 8th June 2004, as part of the 275th anniversary of Parliamentary Democracy in The Bahamas, JoAnn Deveaux-Callender performed the world premiere of Five Pertinent Questions, another of his song cycles in a concert at St George's Hanover Square, London. The following day to continue the Bahamas' anniversary celebrations, Franz gave his first recital with pianist Lee Callender at St James's Piccadilly, London where he sang Bahamian songs and spirituals. Franz had the great honour of singing the role of Bridgetower Senior at LSO St Luke's,

“Is it possible to change the structure of the brain, and alter how we think and feel?” In 2004, leading Western scientists joined the Dalai Lama at his home in Dharamsala, India to address this very question. This week’s Healing Through Creativity Show brings together host Dr. Desiree Cox with Sharon Begley (http://www.sharonlbegley.com), a New York Times bestselling author who was at that 2004 event. Cox and Begley talk about The Plastic Mind, the new science that reveals our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves. Sharon Begley, the senior health & science correspondent at Reuters, was the science editor and the science columnist at Newsweek from 2007 to April 2011. From 2002 to 2007, she was the science columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and previous to that the science editor at Newsweek (http://www.sharonlbegley.com). In addition to The Plastic Mind, She is the co-author (with Richard J. Davidson) of the 2012 book The Emotional Life of Your Brain, and author of the 2007 book Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her writing, including an honorary degree from the University of North Carolina for communicating science to the public, and the Public Understanding of Science Award from the San Francisco Exploratorium. She has spoken before many audiences on the topics of science writing, neuroplasticity, and science literacy, including at Yale University (her alma mater), the Society for Neuroscience, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of Sciences. Find out more about how you can rewire your brain in ways that open new worlds for yourself, how to shift your perspective and create new possibilities for yourself and your life. This week’s show is sponsored in part by the International Futures Forum. Find out more about the International Futures Forum on (www.internationalfuturesforum.com (http://www.internationalfuturesforum.com)). You can also find out more about Dr. Desiree Cox on her website www.desireecox.com (http://www.desireecox.com)

Stories shape the way we see ourselves. They can influence how we act too. Many a ‘good marriage’, ‘successful career’ and ‘comfortable life’ has been torn to shreds by that old and familiar cultural story, affectionately known as ‘the Midlife Crisis’....

Are you a doodler? Studies show that doodlers actually remember more than non-doodlers when asked to retain tediously delivered information? Did you know that there’s even a national doodle day in the UK and USA? In this week’s Healing Through Creativity show, host Dr. Desiree Cox (http://www.desireecox.com)talks to breast cancer survivor and now author and artist, Carol Edmonston (http://www.sacreddoodles.com)about healing through doodling. Edmonston began doodling by chance while anxiously sitting in a medical waiting room shortly after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Since then doodling has become a creative and meditative practice and the spring board for a new beginning for her life. A long time meditator and former physical therapist, Carol Edmonston is a native of California, USA. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in Fullerton, CA with her husband, a retired orthopaedic surgeon. Up until 1995 when she was first diagnosed with cancer, Edmonston would have described herself as a perfectionist, a left-brain person but never an artist. She began her career as a physical therapist, having received her B.S. in Physical Therapy from the University of Southern California and worked in that profession for many years. She was also the former Orange County Coordinator for the National “Just Say No” Club program, a drug prevention program for youth, supported by Former First Lady Nancy Reagan. ‘I’m a recovering perfectionist,’Edmonston confessed to Dr. Cox. ‘I still don’t see herself as an artist. It took me years to see that what I was doing wasn’t just trivial’. Cox and Edmonston talk about how Edmonston uses her process of Sacred Doodling, her upbeat interactive workshops at Sacred Space in the UK and in the USA, and the story of her healing journey through doodling to inspire anxious children and adult cancer patients to connect with their creativity as part of their healing journey. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, when the doodling began Carol has authored two books since her journey began. In her first book, Connections…the Sacred Journey Between Two Points (self-published, 2000) she shares her personal story through prose, interwoven with sacred ‘doodles’ created during that time. Her second book Create While You Wait…a Doodle Book for All Ages (Self-Published, 2004) is a hands-on doodlers book for people waiting- at airports, before meetings, before exams. Her story also appears in Chicken Soup for the Breast Cancer Survivor’s Soul and she has been profiled in the New York Times, Woman’s World, ElleGirl, Women’s Health & Fitness, among other publications. Her new DVD, Sacred Doodles, is a visual and auditory meditation where the doodles come alive, woven with the Celtic harp of Lisa Lynne. Find out more about Carol Edmonston, and Sacred Doodling as a way to healing and creativity in this week’s Healing Through Creativity conversation. You can also find out more about Dr. Desiree Cox on her website www.desireecox.com (http://www.desireecox.com)

Dov Baron, the Accidental Guru. In this week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox talks to the personal and professional leadership coach, bestselling author and radio host Dov Baron about transformation, creativity and wellbeing. In June 1990 while free climbing, Dõv Baron fell about 120 feet, and landed on his face. The impact shattered most of the bone structure of his face, disintegrating some of his upper jaw and fracturing his lower jaw in four places. Around ten reconstructive surgeries later most people would never know what had happened. This event was, as you can imagine, life changing. Before the fall, Dõv had spent years building a reputation as a dynamic speaker and teacher in the field of human development. It wasn't until awhile after this event that Dõv began to see the beauty and elegance of what had happened: The return to his own CORE, what he calls his Soul-Center. This week Dr Desiree Cox talks to the best selling author of ‘Don’t Read This…Unless You Want More Money!’ Dov is also the host and executive producer of the wildly popular radio show: “The Accidental Guru” broadcasting out of Seattle and globally via the internet. He has developed a system that takes people like you from success to fulfillment. His “Core Affluence System” gives his students the power to generate affluence and fulfillment. It gives you the competitive edge while nurturing your soul. Dõv’s energy and passion are contagious. His style is direct, powerful, and humorous. Within moments you will feel a genuine connection with the man who walks his talk. He is a mind-mastery expert and the mental mechanic who will turbo-charge you for magnificent success in the area that matters most to you. He is an international speaker, facilitator, and author who has been sharing his knowledge around the world for the last twenty-five plus years. Dõv Baron is the president of Baron Mastery Institute and the found

What do Al Gore, David Abrams and Jeffrey Pflaum have in common? In this week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox (http://www.desireecox.com)talks to former inner-city New York elementary school teacher Jeffrey Pflaum (http://jeffreypflaum.webs.com/)about returning passion, meaning, fun, imagination, curiosity, wonder, and magic to adolescent reading. After 30 years as a school-teacher at a tough school in New York, Pflaum has written a book that shows parents and young readers how bring the joy back into reading. Cox and Pflaum talk about how his inquiry and passion-based strategy helps teachers and parents to empower their kids to discover, understand, and appreciate reading beyond the current testing culture. ‘Its amazing how symbols on a page can trigger an intertwining and overlapping of the senses so we see and experience emotions and objects.’ says Cox. ‘For me this passion for bringing the fun back into reading started while I was teaching’, says Pflaum. ‘The system is now so focused on reading and testing. But this wasn’t always so when I started teaching back in the 1960s. All the testing has taken the fun and magic out of reading for young people’, says Pflaum. ‘I wanted to help kids and their parents see how important it was reading to be fun so I came up with this approach of asking questions. I’d ask the kids these questions designed to trigger responses about their reading experiences, and then get them to write about it. And it worked.’ Who is Jeffrey Pflaum? As an inner-city elementary school teacher Pflaum created innovative projects in reading, writing, thinking, creativity, poetry, Emotional Intelligence, concentration, and vocabulary which culminated in his book titled, Motivating Teen and Pre-teen Readers: How Teachers and Parents Can Lead the Way (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011). He has written articles for professional newspapers and magazines about his work. Some of these programs appear on major education web sites such as ERIC, Education Resource Information Center, and CASEL, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. He has also inspired his students to write poems which have been published in college, gifted secondary, writers', and children's literary journals, and by commercial book publishers. Pflaum has read their poetry and prose on the public radio show Poetry-In-The-Morning (WNYE-FM), sponsored by the Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City. New York Newsday published "Making Life a Matter of Meter" about The Inner Cities Arts Project and his original Contemplation Writing Program. The former school teacher and now author is currently a BAM! Street Journal Blogger on the BAM Radio Network, serving the greater education community. Go to www.bamradionetwork.com to see his posts on reading and other timely education topics. Pflaum has done interviews on BlogTalkRadio Shows such as ‘Unplugged Mom’, ‘Journey to Center’, and ‘The Learning Curve’, with interviews coming up on ‘The Parent's Plate’ and ‘The LearningRx’. His profile page is http://www.blogtalkradio.com/jeffreypflaum, and web site, JeffreyPflaum.webs.com, is a work-in-progress where listeners can soon find his education articles, curricula, and samples of student published poetry. He can be contacted at: jeffreyppflaum@gmail.com. Find out more about reading, the imagination helping kids to have access to this way of healing through creativity in this week’s healing through creativity conversation You can also find out more about Dr. Desiree Cox on her website www.desireecox.com (http://www.desireecox.com)

What makes a social enterprise a healing enterprise? In this week’s exploratory conversation about imagining the future of being human Dr Desiree Cox (http://www.desireecox.com)and her guest Andrew Lyon (http://www.internationalfuturesforum.com)from the International Futures Forum (IFF) explore the connection between culture and social enterprises and what we might learn about creating meaning and creative self-expression in this Change of Age leading up to 2012. Andrew Lyon is a convener at the International Futures Forum (IFF). The IFF is a non-profit organisation established to support a transformative response to complex and confounding challenges and to develop the capacity for effective action in today’s powerful times. The IFF is developing a body of ideas and philosophy about how to make sense of today’s complex world. The IFF shares that thinking widely as a contribution to the global intellectual commons. The organisation holds events to exchange ideas and experience, and members of IFF’s international clan meet in plenary session as often as possible. ‘The social enterprises that do the best work are the ones that recognise ‘wholeness’ when they see it and then create the conditions for life to flow,’ says Lyon. Lyon who studied Sociology and Economics at Edinburgh University is well versed in the ways in which meaning is created through culture. After completing his PhD, he led a community oriented health programme at Polaroid UK Ltd, before moving to Glasgow to lead the Healthy Cities Programme. He has also worked for the WHO in Bangladesh and Europe. With Forward Scotland, he lead on a Scottish approach to Sustainable Development from 1996- 2001. Now with the International Futures Forum, he leads on programmes designed to restore effectiveness in times of rapid change. Cox and Lyon continue this powerful and inspiring conversational journey exploring how we can imagine a new future of being ‘whole’ as individuals and at a species level. Find out more about the International Futures Forum and you can also find more about Dr Desiree Cox on her website www.desireecox.com (http://www.desireecox.com)

Culture – the patterns of relationships we are embedded in – shapes us. And, in this week’s exploratory conversation about imagining the future of being human Dr Desiree Cox (http://www.desireecox.com) and her guest Andrew Lyon (http://www.internationalfuturesforum.com)from the International Futures Forum (IFF) look at dance to see what treasures this form of cultural expression might teach us about creating meaning in this Change of Age leading up to 2012. Andrew Lyon is a convener at the International Futures Forum (IFF). The IFF is a non-profit organisation established to support a transformative response to complex and confounding challenges and to develop the capacity for effective action in today’s powerful times. The IFF is developing a body of ideas and philosophy about how to make sense of today’s complex world. The IFF shares that thinking widely as a contribution to the global intellectual commons. The organisation holds events to exchange ideas and experience, and members of IFF’s international clan meet in plenary session as often as possible. Cox notes that in traditional cultures dance is used both to teach and express social patterns and values and helps people work, mature, celebrate festivals and funerals, compete, learn and encounter history, proverbs and poetry; as well as connect with the supernatural. Does dance play such a different role today in Western cultures? She asks. Lyon who studied Sociology and Economics at Edinburgh University is well versed in the ways in which meaning is created through culture. After completing his PhD, he led a community oriented health programme at Polaroid UK Ltd, before moving to Glasgow to lead the Healthy Cities Programme. He has also worked for the WHO in Bangladesh and Europe. With Forward Scotland, he lead on a Scottish approach to Sustainable Development from 1996- 2001. Now with the International Futures Forum, he leads on programmes designed to restore effectiveness in times of rapid change. Cox and Lyon continue this powerful and inspiring conversational journey exploring how we can imagine a new future of being ‘whole’ as individuals and at a species level. Find out more about the International Futures Forum and you can also find more about Dr Desiree Cox on her website www.desireecox.com (http://www.desireecox.com)

2012, A ‘Change of Age’. Tom Evans (http://www.tomevans.co)continues on from last weeks show with Andrew Lyon (http://www.internationalfuturesforum.com)from the International Futures Forum in this series of exploratory conversations on the Healing Through Creativity show imagining the Future of our species with host Dr. Desiree Cox Tom Evans is 21st century renaissance man, a serial entrepreneur and engineer now author, poet, musician and mentor of other authors on how to banish writer’s block and tap into their creative muse. After taking a degree in Electronics, he embarked on a career as a broadcast engineer with the BBC. He has also had his own company manufacturing innovative widgets to broadcasters worldwide and has received two Royal Television Society awards for his inventions as well as having several patents to his name. Evans is a trained hypnotherapist and specialises in past life and intra-life regression as well as future life progression. He has written three books: Blocks, Flavors of Thought, and his latest book, The art and science of Light Bulb Moments (published by O books, 2011). Cox and Evans continue on from the powerful conversation begun with Cox and Lyon in part 1 of this series. In this weeks inspiring conversational journey Cox and Evans explore how as individuals we can convert ‘light-bulb’ moments into real live products, as well as how to create work environments where individuals and teams are empowered to be ‘whole’ at work and collectively dream new futures for their businesses, and ultimately, for our species as a whole. Find out more about the Tom Evans, his books, talks and workshops from his website. You can also find more about Dr Desiree Cox on her website www.desireecox.com (http://www.desireecox.com).

This run up to 2012 marks a significant period in this ‘Change of Age’. Andrew Lyon (http://www.internationalfuturesforum.com)from the International Future’s Forum is this week’s Healing Through Creativity, guest with host Dr. Desiree Cox (http://www.desireecox.com)in a series of conversations and explorations imagining the future of ‘human beings’ as a species in this ‘Change of Age.’ The International Futures Forum (IFF) is a non-profit organisation established to support a transformative response to complex and confounding challenges and to develop the capacity for effective action in today’s powerful times. The IFF is developing a body of ideas and philosophy about how to make sense of today’s complex world. The IFF shares that thinking widely as a contribution to the global intellectual commons. The organisation holds events to exchange ideas and experience, and members of IFF’s international clan meet in plenary session as often as possible. Andrew Lyon is a convener at the IFF. Lyon studied Sociology and Economics at Edinburgh University. After completing his PhD, he led a community oriented health programme at Polaroid UK Ltd, before moving to Glasgow to lead the Healthy Cities Programme. He has also worked for the WHO in Bangladesh and Europe. With Forward Scotland, he lead on a Scottish approach to Sustainable Development from 1996- 2001. Now with the International Futures Forum, he leads on programmes designed to restore effectiveness in times of rapid change. Cox and Lyon begin a powerful and inspiring conversational journey exploring how we can imagine a new future of being ‘whole’ as individuals and at a species level. Find out more about the International Futures Forum and you can also find more about Dr Desiree Cox on her website www.desireecox.com (http://www.desireecox.com)

In this week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox (http://www.desireecox.com)reflects on conversations with Mr Joel Andrews (http://www.harpofgold.com)and Ed Mikenas (http://www.edmikenas.org/), both professional musicians and healers about their work, healing gifts and practices, and how their work helps clients on their journey of being whole. Joel Andrews is a harpist, composer, author, and he was the pioneer music healer in America. He tours and presents concerts and workshops worldwide. Captivating international audiences with his exquisite music for over 30 years, Andrews has produced 33 recordings, including collaborations with Paul Horn and the Paul Winter Consort. He was presented in Town Hall, New York, with critical acclaim and has soloed with the San Francisco Symphony under Arthur Fiedler. ‘The healing works at a non-verbal vibrational level’, says Andrews. ‘I’m not doing the healing. I have my part, but it’s happening through the higher realms,’ Andrews insists as he reflects on his work with individual clients. Cox then moves away from individual healing work of Andrews to reflect on an earlier conversation with Ed Mikenas who works with groups. Mikenas has develop particular hand drumming techniques to help addicts and teenagers recover from addition and learn and embody new skills that support them living healthier lives. Ed Mikenas is a professional musician (with a Masters Degree in Music from the Manhattan School of Music in NYC), a certified substance abuse counselor, and the Director of Non-Residential Services for the City of Lynchburg’s Department of Juvenile Services. His main instrument is the double bass. However, over the past fifteen years Ed has been focusing on drumming as a therapeutic tool. He’s developed his own unique method of using hand drums for healing and well-being. It is a method which is becoming increasing accepted in certain healthcare and academic settings around the US, one of these being Radford University, where Ed developed the Drumming on the Edge of Leadership curriculum for the Waldron School of Social Work. Ed’s work as been referenced in prestigious academic journals, such as the American Journal of Public Health, as well as a book published by Oxford University Press. Find out more about music and whole-person health creativity in this week’s conversation with Joel Andrews and Ed Mikenas. You can also find out more about Dr. Desiree Cox on her website www.desireecox.com (http://www.desireecox.com)

‘You can’t think your way to a better life’, says Mark Mooney. Quite apart from the fact, as Cox reminds us, that when it comes to thinking about certain things like ‘free will’, ‘happiness’ and ‘fulfillment’, it seems we can’t think straight anyway. This week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox (http://www.desireecox.com)continues her conversation with Mark Mooney (http://www.strozziinstitute.com), VP of Public Programs at Strozzi Institute, and a certified Master Somatic Coach. Healing as whole-person health and it’s the connection between personal mastery and creativity and healing is the subject of their conversation. Mark is a teacher in Strozzi Institute’s Leadership and Action courses in the US, Europe and Asia, as well as providing individual coaching and business consulting. He uses a Somatic approach in all the domains in which he is involved whether it be teaching, coaching or in Aikido where his own journey of personal mastery has taken him to the rank of second degree black belt. ‘Do you’ve decided that certain things don’t work for you, and that you want to, need to change them to live a more fulfillned life. Now what? What do you do? Asks Dr Cox. Mooney, a former businessman who has studied with Dr. Richard Strozzi-Heckler for 19 years and has been a teacher at Strozzi Institute for 14 years, explains how transformation involves embodying new practices that help people unwind the parts of themselves that have contracted. Cox and Mooney talk about change, motivation, commitment and the mind-body in this first part of their conversation about healing, creativity and personal mastery. Find out more about creativity and personal mastery with Mark Mooney and Dr Desiree Cox. You can also find out more about Dr. Desiree Cox on her website www.desireecox.com (http://www.desireecox.com)

In this week’s Healing Through Creativity, host Dr. Desiree Cox (http://www.desireecox.com)talks to Mark Mooney (http://www.strozziinstitute.com), who is VP of Public Programs at Strozzi Institute, and a certified Master Somatic Coach about creativity, whole-person health and personal mastery. Mark is a teacher in Strozzi Institute’s Leadership and Action courses in the US, Europe and Asia, as well as providing individual coaching and business consulting. He uses a Somatic approach in all the domains in which he is involved whether it be teaching, coaching or in Aikido where his own journey of personal mastery has taken him to the rank of second degree black belt. ‘Studies show that almost 90% of cases it takes a major crisis to motivate us to change’, says Mooney. Both he and Dr. Cox ask why? At Strozzi they ask the question: Who are you being as a leader. The focus on who you are being as a person leads almost automatically to personal leadership, personal practice, and personal mastery. He is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, has managed several small businesses and owned his own manufacturing business for six years. He has been studying with Dr. Richard Strozzi-Heckler for 19 years and has been a teacher at Strozzi Institute for 14 years. Cox shares about her journey of personal mastery and healing through creativity, and her own motivations for change, as well as the way Mooney’s approach to centered practice at one of the courses he ran in London many years ago inspired her to take up aikido. Mooney has been a guest presenter at Yale, George Mason University, Sonoma State University, JFK University, Georgetown University, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of San Francisco. He has presented at various conferences including the Organization Development Network Conference, Edges Coaching Community Conference, and a Pfizer Discovery Day Conference. During his time at Strozzi Institute, Mark has worked with numerous businesses - including Pfizer, BIA Financial Consultant, Boston Edison, Cisco Systems, Hoffman Institute, Homeland Security Kaiser Permanete to name a few - providing them with training in leadership, effective coordination, and developing teams. Cox and Mooney talk about change, motivation, commitment and the mind-body in this first part of their conversation about healing, creativity and personal mastery. Find out more about creativity and personal mastery with Mark Mooney and Dr Desiree Cox. You can also find out more about Dr. Desiree Cox on her website www.desireecox.com (http://www.desireecox.com)

Wisdom begins with wonder. Healing journeys often begin as disruptions in our business-as-usual approach to life. And the healing change often begins even before the healing intervention has even been initiated. This week host Dr Desiree Cox reflects on intention, perception and the art of being whole. Drawing together important themes from important conversations over this year of Healing Through Creativity conversations, Dr Cox reflects on conversations with experts like Tom Kenyon (http://www.tomkenyon.com), sound-healer, shaman, psychotherapist, author who have shared their experience of the power of intention in healing, and discussion with Dr Eileen Magnello (http://www.introducingbooks.com/book/view/statistics) statistician and historian of medicine and statistics whose brain operation is, in a way a story of the natural history of healing and perceptual change. In both cases Dr Cox highlights the connections between our beliefs, what we intend relates to healing change, as well as the connection between creativity and how we perceive the world. Creativity and perception have a reciprocal relationship, both feeding off each other, both, when working in synergy can help us alter our perceptual landscapes in ways that give us access to other aspects of our being. Learn about intention, perception and creativity in this week’s conversation with Dr Desiree Cox. You can also find out more about Dr Cox from her website www.desireecox.com (http://www.desireecox.com)

Last week we heard Carolyn Keyes talking to Dr Cox about creativity and healing in the workplace instead of Dr McAspurn. We apologize for this substitution. This week our ‘Healing Through Creativity’ host Dr. Desiree Cox (http://www.desireecox.com)explores how health and spirituality might be integrated in the therapeutic encounter between healer or practitioner and client with Dr Michelle McAspurn (http://ghh.info/). A medical doctor, Integrative Medicine Specialist, and Interfaith minister who asks about spirituality? Dr Michelle McAspurn is one such person. She finds it helpful to ask about spirituality during her medical consultations. Dr McAspurn who qualified at Glasgow University and now practices Integrative Medicine at the NHS Center for Integrative Care in Glasgow discuss the art of being whole and of whole person health in medical practice. ‘This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!’ In this podcast, McAspurn and Cox talk about integrating spirituality and medicine throughout their exploration of what is involved in being whole and being fulfilled in ones life. Cox and McAspurn, share their healing journeys and some of their challenges along the way, showing how creativity comes into this process of integrating spirituality and health. Learn about spirituality, integrative medicine and creativity in this week’s conversation with Dr Desiree Cox and Dr Michelle McAspurn. You can also find out more about Dr Cox from her website www.desireecox.com (http://www.desireecox.com)