Markus Scott-Alexander, PhD
8135 102 Street NW T6E4A4 Edmonton, AB, Canada

Renee Blank Exhibit: Visit www.worldartsorg.com Go to Student Artwork. I call it "Bold Intimacy" What would you call it?

Arts-based eco-therapy online training. Helping individuals and communities create nurturing new ways to interact with the planet while experiencing their own healing. For info go to www.worldartsorg.com. Feeling incredible joy here in the mountains.

Arts-based eco-therapy online training. Helping individuals and communities create nurturing new ways to interact with the planet while experiencing their own healing. For info go to www.worldartsorg.com. Feeling incredible joy here in the mountains.

Online training and supervision in arts-based response to the CHALLENGES and OPPORTUNITIES facing clients with ADHD with Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, Markus Scott-Alexander, PhD worldartsorg.comOnline training and supervision in arts-based response to the CHALLENGES and OPPORTUNITIES facing clients with ADHD with Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, Markus Scott-Alexander, PhD worldartsorg.com

I am very excited about this. After 30 years of integrating expressive arts and eco-therapy I will offer an online certificate training to facilitate this work with groups and individuals beginning October 2021. For details go to www.worldartsorg.com

I am very excited about this. After 30 years of integrating expressive arts and eco-therapy I will offer an online certificate training to facilitate this work with groups and individuals beginning October 2021. For details go to www.worldartsorg.com

I’m so glad people are finding the theories in my book useful. Go to: www.worldartsorg.com for excerpts.

In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton's hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fift...h/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend an assembly at Dollywood. They were asked to pick a buddy, and if both students completed high school, Dolly Parton would personally hand them each a $500 check on their graduation day. As a result, the dropout rate for those classes fell to 6%, and has generally retained that average to this day. Shortly after the success of The Buddy Program, Parton learned in dealing with teachers from the school district that problems in education often begin during first grade when kids are at different developmental levels. That year The Dollywood Foundation paid the salaries for additional teachers assistants in every first grade class for the next 2 years, under the agreement that if the program worked, the school system would effectively adopt and fund the program after the trial period. During the same period, Parton founded the Imagination Library in 1995: The idea being that children from her rural hometown and low-income families often start school at a disadvantage and as a result, will be unfairly compared to their peers for the rest of their lives, effectively encouraging them not to pursue higher education. The objective of the Imagination library was that every child in Sevier County would receive one book, every month, mailed and addressed to the child, from the day they were born until the day they started kindergarten, 100% free of charge. What began as a hometown initiative now serves children in all 50 states, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, mailing thousands of free books to children around the world monthly. On March 1, 2018 Parton donated her 100 millionth book at the Library of Congress: a copy of "Coat of Many Colors" dedicated to her father, who never learned to read or write. Happy 74th Birthday Dolly Parton!

The new OS is constantly bringing me little movies, and lovely memories. This morning recalls June 20, 2019, an evening of Judith’s lecture on her drawings, and... a many sweet moments. How lucky we were all, to have each other and a beautiful night. We could not have dreamt this year was coming. Love to you all dear colleagues and friends. Paolo lives again in these memories as he does in our hearts. See more

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The Dance of Wholeness. March 8 to 12, 2021. 5-Day Expressive Arts Intensive with Markus ONLINE. Go to worldartsorg.com for details. Click on the ribbon at the top of the first page. Register early. Enrolment limited. (This is a closeup of a mural in Nelson, BC.)

Winter can be invigorating!