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Susan Patrice
As the founder and director of Makers Circle, Susan Patrice designs and implements arts-informed community initiatives in partnership with non-arts organizations who want to expand their reach and impact through innovative cross-sector collaboration. Makers Circle has a deep passion for the power of the creative process to encourage adaptive change, expand awareness, and open up new ways of seeing and relating. We believe that the arts and artists should play a major role in community regeneration and non-profit advancement. Web design and digital storytelling are foundational to the work we do with non-profits.
One of the most outstanding students and teachers of phenomenology was the polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Although better known for his poetry and plays, Goethe spent the years from 1777 until he died in 1832 engaged in contemplative scientific and artistic exploration. For Goethe, any contemplative practice needs to include the following…