Human Art: Understanding Your Own Personal Design


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Wouldn’t it be terrific if you could understand who you are? Or maybe you need to know another’s personality—a customer, a spouse, or a friend. In "Human Art: Understanding Your Own Personal Design" we teach you how to do just that. We all have taken personality tests that helped to an extent. They helped us know that we were a good organizer or a people person. But what if you could go deeper–deep enough to find completely how you think, why you act the way you do in certain situations? With Human Art, you can. You can understand yourself and others. You can define who you are, how you are made, how you think, and how you come across to others. Combining principles of art, design, color theory and psychology, Human Art is a one of a kind approach to understanding personality in a completely observable way. It teaches how we can merely look at someone and draw conclusions based on characteristics such as the colors they relate to, the lines in their bone structure, and the movement they display. These outward characteristics are clues to who we are on the inside. Using this unique methodology, we can find confidence and understanding of both ourselves and others. The knowledge of Human Art (The Original Personality Test) can be used in all aspects of life: personal development, relationships, customer service and more. With Human Art, proven with empirical support over 200 years, you can discover just how unique you really are--one of a kind, a masterpiece. https://www.theoriginalpersonalitytest.com REVIEWS FROM ORIGINAL 2006 PUBLICATION: “Finally, a one-size-fits-all beauty book filled with clear wisdom about what it takes to be beautiful. We all wear our negative beliefs about ourselves on our hips, waist, etc. Brook and Rod give us the tools to become aware of these negative self images and give us simple ways of eradicating them . . . the result is beauty. Human Art is a book you can pick up, read a page or two, and reap the benefits. Keep it some place where you can easily access it whenever you need positive reinforcement. It is a blueprint for living a meaningful life. A book you want to give everyone.” – Thomas M. Bassett Matrix, Division of L’Oréal, Artistic Design, Team Member Owner, Salon Tantrum “After reading so many self-help books to find out what is wrong with me, Human Art taught me about my true nature, and now, I will never again apologize for who I am.” – Reggie Skinner, Seminar Attendee “Rather than focusing on what is wrong with me, the concepts of Human Art make me consider what’s right with me. This program gives me hope that I’ll find validation for who I am and how I was created.” – Pamela Payton, Color Therapy Client




I Am Perfectly Designed


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I Am Perfectly Designed is an exuberant celebration of loving who you are, exactly as you are, from Karamo Brown, the Culture Expert of Netflix's hit series Queer Eye, and Jason Brown—featuring illustrations by Anoosha Syed. In this empowering ode to modern families, a boy and his father take a joyful walk through the city, discovering all the ways in which they are perfectly designed for each other. "With tenderness and wit, this story captures the magic of building strong childhood memories. The Browns and Syed celebrate the special bond between parent and child with joy and flair...Syed's bright, cartoon illustrations enrich the tale with a meaningful message of kindness and inclusion."—Kirkus




Art and Faith


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From a world-renowned painter, an exploration of creativity’s quintessential—and often overlooked—role in the spiritual life “Makoto Fujimura’s art and writings have been a true inspiration to me. In this luminous book, he addresses the question of art and faith and their reconciliation with a quiet and moving eloquence.”—Martin Scorsese “[An] elegant treatise . . . Fujimura’s sensitive, evocative theology will appeal to believers interested in the role religion can play in the creation of art.”—Publishers Weekly Conceived over thirty years of painting and creating in his studio, this book is Makoto Fujimura’s broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of “making.” What he does in the studio is theological work as much as it is aesthetic work. In between pouring precious, pulverized minerals onto handmade paper to create the prismatic, refractive surfaces of his art, he comes into the quiet space in the studio, in a discipline of awareness, waiting, prayer, and praise. Ranging from the Bible to T. S. Eliot, and from Mark Rothko to Japanese Kintsugi technique, he shows how unless we are making something, we cannot know the depth of God’s being and God’s grace permeating our lives. This poignant and beautiful book offers the perspective of, in Christian Wiman’s words, “an accidental theologian,” one who comes to spiritual questions always through the prism of art.




The Purpose Playbook


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Imagine waking every morning filled with clarity and excitement around what you do, create, and contribute. You don't have to quit your job and move to a deserted island to find your life purpose. That's the promise of The Purpose Playbook. Alexandra Cole helps Fortune 500 brands better articulate and operate in alignment with their values. She now uses the same frameworks and principles to help individuals find fulfillment. Alexandra demystifies purpose by sharing relatable anecdotes, impactful exercises, and tactical advice on how to overcome common obstacles and take incremental steps to design your life around what matters most. This no-nonsense guide will teach you how to: * Identify and articulate your unique purpose * Spend your time more intentionally * Find career opportunities that allow you to make an impact and do what you love * Get inspired when you feel stuck or stagnant * Transform your money mindset to work for you instead of against you * Develop routines that will infuse your every day with more purpose When you stop settling, trust your intuition, and do the work, you will enjoy a more meaningful career, relationships, and lifestyle. It's time to stop living on autopilot and start living on purpose.




Teaching Primary Art and Design


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Trainee and beginning teachers often find it hard to plan for and teach good art lessons as there is little guidance on subject knowledge and outstanding practice. This key text will provide primary trainee teachers with subject knowledge, expert advice and guidance along with practical solutions that are necessary to offer children the best possible experiences in art, craft and design, to ensure that they have access to a broad and balanced curriculum. Through guidance and support it will enable them to develop an understanding of the principles and values that underpin high standards and high expectations, and show good progress in the subject.




The Human Design Workbook


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Start Here! This is what Karen Curry Parker tells all students new to Human Design, especially when they may be overwhelmed by all the rich and complex information outlined in an individual’s Human Design chart. While Parker’s bestselling book Understanding Human Design gives the reader all the information they need to absorb and integrate the beauty and nuance of the system in depth, The Human Design Workbook offers the space for beginners to enter into this fascinating system through the most accessible means available to them: their own chart. Through clear explanations of each aspect of Human Design as well as a series of powerful journal prompts and exercises, Parker will lead you through the clear path to understanding not only your own personal chart, but also how your chart can open up whole new paths of understanding into your innate creative potential and authentic life purpose. Read this book, dive into the rich world of Human Design, and uncover the means to live into the destiny you were meant for from the moment you were born.




A Whole New Mind


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New York Times Bestseller An exciting--and encouraging--exploration of creativity from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others) outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment--and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that's already here.




Essential Subject Knowledge for Primary Teaching


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As a trainee teacher you have a huge amount to grapple with when it comes to developing expertise in the suite of subjects within the primary national curriculum. Subject knowledge cannot be developed in isolation, it must relate to the curriculum knowledge and pedagogical knowledge, enabling ways to teach the subject with confidence. This book takes you though a journey of the national curriculum, supporting you to think about each subjects’ positioning within the national curriculum, the subject knowledge you need to know and how to teach each subject in a creative way. Highlighting the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion across all chapters, this book enables new teachers to bring new voices and perspectives to the classroom. It includes: · Key subject knowledge. · Examples of sequenced lessons. · Classroom ideas. · Links to further learning and subject associations. · A chapter exploring the subject knowledge needed to teach sustainability and climate change.




Course Design Strategy


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This book is packed with strategies and insights that will help you design better training courses. It focuses on how people learn as the key factor in making design decisions. The book shows you how to design a good course for any field, no matter what medium you use to deliver it. Learn how the brain works, how people forget, how to gain and maintain attention and how to make a subject interesting. Then use the easy-to-follow guidelines to design strategically by increasing curiosity, making content emotional, making learners practise what they have learned and using failure as a teaching tool. The art of designing a course and making people learn is mastered through practical experience of running courses; the science is gained by evidence-based research on how people learn. The book combines the two, offering many examples and studies in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, instructional design and training the trainer. You will find lots of examples and studies in the book that provide insights that may not be obvious but that lead to important design decisions. They will change forever how you think about training design and delivery and help you design courses that your learners will love. In Course Design Strategy, you will learn: · How to make content memorable · What learners expect from a course · How people learn and forget, and why this should be the cornerstone of any course design · How to use eureka moments and eureka concepts as the building blocks of course design · How to make content easy to learn · Why the presence of a feedback loop is crucial to learning · How to use exercises and tests to enhance learning




Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning


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Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism, and Iconography Connecting Art to Our Lives Form in Architecture Art and Identity Art and Power Art and Ritual Life - Symbolism of Space and Ritual Objects, Mortality, and Immortality Art and Ethics