Secrets of the Creative Life
A Book of Inspiration
Shanti Elke Bannwart
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Praise for Secrets of the Creative Life
Shanti Bannwart guides us in opening our hearts, reviving our souls, and nurturing the courage to explore into the deepest places of our beings. I feel gratitude to the author and her interviewees for sharing their experiences so I may better understand and affirm creativity in myself and others.
—Sheila Bender, Founder of WritingItReal.com, author of A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in Time of Grief
About the book
Secrets of the Creative Life is a personal and intimate book about the exploration of creativity as lived in our ordinary daily lives and in extraordinary moments. Collected here are the thoughts and insights of twenty acclaimed Creatives: artists, scientists, musicians, physicians, and others, including myself. I frame the rich harvest of those interviews with my own stories and essays. This book is not a how-to-be-creative treatise but a journey beyond creative expression as a hobby, into deeper layers of discovery, where we touch the Eternal Mystery of creativity as we listen to the experiences of those artists whose creative natures are the driving force of their lives.
The book’s gestation was driven by my deep yearning to participate in the power of the creative Universe, and so to be challenged into its light and darkness. My own life is blessed with creative journeys; they inspire my normal daily life and bring enchantment to the ordinary as well as the mysterious.
About the author
Shanti Elke Bannwart was born in Hamburg, Germany, at the onset of World War II, and moved to the United States in 1983.
She is a life-coach and psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as a clay artist educated at the Institute of American Indian Arts, with a focus on indigenous mythology and art. She also has a master’s degree in Expressive Arts Therapies from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and received an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College in 2009.
She has traveled worldwide and led national and international workshops and educational trainings. Her writing includes literary competition prize-winners and essays in national and international magazines. This is her second book.
A Book of Inspiration
Shanti Elke Bannwart
Purchase
Praise for Secrets of the Creative Life
Shanti Bannwart guides us in opening our hearts, reviving our souls, and nurturing the courage to explore into the deepest places of our beings. I feel gratitude to the author and her interviewees for sharing their experiences so I may better understand and affirm creativity in myself and others.
—Sheila Bender, Founder of WritingItReal.com, author of A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in Time of Grief
About the book
Secrets of the Creative Life is a personal and intimate book about the exploration of creativity as lived in our ordinary daily lives and in extraordinary moments. Collected here are the thoughts and insights of twenty acclaimed Creatives: artists, scientists, musicians, physicians, and others, including myself. I frame the rich harvest of those interviews with my own stories and essays. This book is not a how-to-be-creative treatise but a journey beyond creative expression as a hobby, into deeper layers of discovery, where we touch the Eternal Mystery of creativity as we listen to the experiences of those artists whose creative natures are the driving force of their lives.
The book’s gestation was driven by my deep yearning to participate in the power of the creative Universe, and so to be challenged into its light and darkness. My own life is blessed with creative journeys; they inspire my normal daily life and bring enchantment to the ordinary as well as the mysterious.
About the author
Shanti Elke Bannwart was born in Hamburg, Germany, at the onset of World War II, and moved to the United States in 1983.
She is a life-coach and psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as a clay artist educated at the Institute of American Indian Arts, with a focus on indigenous mythology and art. She also has a master’s degree in Expressive Arts Therapies from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and received an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College in 2009.
She has traveled worldwide and led national and international workshops and educational trainings. Her writing includes literary competition prize-winners and essays in national and international magazines. This is her second book.
