AN EMPOWERING BOOK FOR ALL
COLOR Up is for anyone who wants to get out of black-and-white polarized thinking!
Every one of us makes choices every single day. Some are simple, like which movie to see, what to have for dinner, or what to wear to the party on Friday. Others are harder—whether to stay in a relationship, change jobs, or move to another city. We wish it could be easier. Despite the invention of many decision-making models over the years, most are bulky, overly psychological or intellectual, or miss the heart of the matter.
Most of the time when faced with making a choice, we think we have only two options, and we spend our time feeling stuck trying to figure out what to do. At every level—from the highest echelons of government, to the workplace, to personal dilemmas—rigid dichotomies frame how we approach solving problems. Polarization is all around us saturating our public and personal discourse, our institutions, and the media! And it doesn’t seem to be going away. In fact, it’s getting worse. No wonder so many individuals keep recycling through the same limited options, when everything is framed as either-or, right-wrong, good-bad—with nothing in between.
COLOR UP to Create the Life you Want to Live is timely and necessary to disrupt this default mode of dualistic thinking. This is the first book to offer a hands-on approach that uses color in a fun and playful way to engage the whole person in generating an abundance of choices. Offering refreshing opportunities rather than prescriptions, it is very different from other self-help books. Anyone can use our approach to sort out a problem quickly and easily, see and create new options, and move beyond the limitations of traditional decision-making.
Teaching thousands of students, we have witnessed countless struggles with dualistic thinking and efforts to move beyond either-or dilemmas. Even in women studies—a liberal and emancipatory field of study—our students struggled to break out of seeing only two options. Informed by our interactions with the students in our classes and workshops; our expertise in the fields of art therapy and art education, communication, and women studies; and our personal insights as artists, we have created an approach that works to help individuals create lives full of color instead of staying stuck in a black-and-white life.
COLOR UP is priceless guide for readers who have difficulty making choices, stuck in either-or indecision, and who want to move in more vibrant directions in all aspects of their lives. It is a valuable resource for those who work with populations ready for change—therapists, teachers, mediators, counselors, life coaches, consultants, and trainers. In addition, organizations and businesses seeking to move beyond polarized thinking and to find ways to address issues more creatively will find COLOR UP a practical and inventive tool for the workplace.
Every one of us makes choices every single day. Some are simple, like which movie to see, what to have for dinner, or what to wear to the party on Friday. Others are harder—whether to stay in a relationship, change jobs, or move to another city. We wish it could be easier. Despite the invention of many decision-making models over the years, most are bulky, overly psychological or intellectual, or miss the heart of the matter.
Most of the time when faced with making a choice, we think we have only two options, and we spend our time feeling stuck trying to figure out what to do. At every level—from the highest echelons of government, to the workplace, to personal dilemmas—rigid dichotomies frame how we approach solving problems. Polarization is all around us saturating our public and personal discourse, our institutions, and the media! And it doesn’t seem to be going away. In fact, it’s getting worse. No wonder so many individuals keep recycling through the same limited options, when everything is framed as either-or, right-wrong, good-bad—with nothing in between.
COLOR UP to Create the Life you Want to Live is timely and necessary to disrupt this default mode of dualistic thinking. This is the first book to offer a hands-on approach that uses color in a fun and playful way to engage the whole person in generating an abundance of choices. Offering refreshing opportunities rather than prescriptions, it is very different from other self-help books. Anyone can use our approach to sort out a problem quickly and easily, see and create new options, and move beyond the limitations of traditional decision-making.
Teaching thousands of students, we have witnessed countless struggles with dualistic thinking and efforts to move beyond either-or dilemmas. Even in women studies—a liberal and emancipatory field of study—our students struggled to break out of seeing only two options. Informed by our interactions with the students in our classes and workshops; our expertise in the fields of art therapy and art education, communication, and women studies; and our personal insights as artists, we have created an approach that works to help individuals create lives full of color instead of staying stuck in a black-and-white life.
COLOR UP is priceless guide for readers who have difficulty making choices, stuck in either-or indecision, and who want to move in more vibrant directions in all aspects of their lives. It is a valuable resource for those who work with populations ready for change—therapists, teachers, mediators, counselors, life coaches, consultants, and trainers. In addition, organizations and businesses seeking to move beyond polarized thinking and to find ways to address issues more creatively will find COLOR UP a practical and inventive tool for the workplace.
