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PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION WITH ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS I have been working with organizations and teams for 35 years. My teaching for professionals focuses on the deep interconnections between mental health, childhood development, addictions, and trauma. I speak frequently at schools, at conferences, in communities, and I offer workshops for a wide variety of organizations: social service agencies
HOW TO FINISH WOOD FOR BOATS ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST Woodworkers and boat builders are, on the whole, a contentious bunch. They argue about all kinds of things: tools, methods, aesthetics, materials.
HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST WOOD FOR YOUR BOAT ROSS LAIRD ROSS In an age of plastics and composites, wood has not surrendered its claim on the mariner. The color and texture of grain, the particular warmth of wood in the sun, the way a teak gunwale is shaped precisely to meet the grasping hand: these qualities of wood embody the romance of the sea.
ONE TREE IN BURNS BOG STANDS FOR ALL TREES ROSS LAIRD ROSS South of the riverbend, twenty minutes along a trail fringed with pink flowers of hardhack and gangly stalks of sweet gale, a black spruce that I call the World Tree stands against a spring sky. THE THERAPEUTIC USE OF OBJECTS IN HEALTH AND HEALING ROSS The oil lamp is small and fragile, worn down by almost two thousand years of accumulated grit, corrosion, darkness, and time. It was shaped by hand, with unfired clay, by a refugee fleeing Roman persecution in the fledgling age of Christianity. ROSS LAIRD: CLINICAL CONSULTANT, AUTHOR, EDUCATOR ROSSSERVICESBLOGRESOURCESBOOKSNEWSLETTERABOUT Clinical Consultant, Author, Educator. I help organizations and communities navigate the complex challenges of mental health, addictions, and trauma BOOKS BY ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST-SELLINGSEE MORE ON ROSSLAIRD.COM
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES FROM ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS My work takes me to many places and into the lives of many people. Mental health, addictions, and trauma are (almost) universal experiences, and the ways we choose to deal with them are as diverse as cultures and individuals can be. SERVICES PROVIDED BY ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD I began my career 35 years ago, working with corporate executives on themes of team development. Those early experiences led me to a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology (with a focus on somatics and creativity), after which I opened a private practice and began to work with a diverse range of clients grappling with mental health and chronic pain issues. ABOUT ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST-SELLING I completed a doctoral degree that explored the therapeutic creative process and wrote my first book, Grain of Truth, which was a best-seller and finalist for the Governor General’s Award. At about the same time, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside was facing increasing challenges with addictions, poverty, and trauma. I reached out to social
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION WITH ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS I have been working with organizations and teams for 35 years. My teaching for professionals focuses on the deep interconnections between mental health, childhood development, addictions, and trauma. I speak frequently at schools, at conferences, in communities, and I offer workshops for a wide variety of organizations: social service agencies
HOW TO FINISH WOOD FOR BOATS ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST Woodworkers and boat builders are, on the whole, a contentious bunch. They argue about all kinds of things: tools, methods, aesthetics, materials.
HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST WOOD FOR YOUR BOAT ROSS LAIRD ROSS In an age of plastics and composites, wood has not surrendered its claim on the mariner. The color and texture of grain, the particular warmth of wood in the sun, the way a teak gunwale is shaped precisely to meet the grasping hand: these qualities of wood embody the romance of the sea.
ONE TREE IN BURNS BOG STANDS FOR ALL TREES ROSS LAIRD ROSS South of the riverbend, twenty minutes along a trail fringed with pink flowers of hardhack and gangly stalks of sweet gale, a black spruce that I call the World Tree stands against a spring sky. THE THERAPEUTIC USE OF OBJECTS IN HEALTH AND HEALING ROSS The oil lamp is small and fragile, worn down by almost two thousand years of accumulated grit, corrosion, darkness, and time. It was shaped by hand, with unfired clay, by a refugee fleeing Roman persecution in the fledgling age of Christianity. COURSES TAUGHT BY ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST The courses I teach are focused on the integration of personal, professional, and academic development. My approach emphasizes learner engagement, purposeful creativity, and experiential self-development. WWW.ROSSLAIRD.COM
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THE BLOG OF ROSS LAIRD: CLINICAL CONSULTANT, AUTHOR A Webinar in Partnership with the BC Non-Profit Housing Association. Rethinking Recovery. How to Build an Effective Addictions Program THE ROSS LAIRD NEWSLETTER ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST Subscribe. I send out a newsletter about once every three months. It contains updates about events, news, articles, research, and similar items of interest to my readers. This is a private list with no advertising, no unsolicited emails, no affiliate marketing, and so on. It ’ s just me to you. I do not share, sell, or use your information in
HOW TO RECOVER FROM ADDICTION ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST Addiction has been the primary focus of my professional work for more than 30 years. I’ve worked with thousands of clients and hundreds of organizations. I provide consulting services for the development of addictions programs, clinical supervision for counsellors, psychotherapists, and front-line staff, and education for the wider community. The complex landscape of recovery is my THE THERAPEUTIC USE OF OBJECTS IN HEALTH AND HEALING ROSS The oil lamp is small and fragile, worn down by almost two thousand years of accumulated grit, corrosion, darkness, and time. It was shaped by hand, with unfired clay, by a refugee fleeing Roman persecution in the fledgling age of Christianity. HOW TO IMPROVE EDUCATION FOR THE MODERN WORLD ROSS LAIRD Some popular views: the primary school system stifles creativity; high school is a minefield of bullying and conformity; university is a treadmill for earning increasingly irrelevant acronyms. RESOURCES FOR EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF MUSEUM WORK ROSS Stories are maps, repositories of collected wisdom, ciphers and guides for making sense of the human journey. Whether archaic, prosaic, or postmodern, stories render the paths undertaken by all those who seek resolution and healing. HEALING FROM ADDICTIONS BEGINS WITH MAKING SENSE OF ITS Addictions are pervasive. They are perhaps the most common human frailty. My work involves helping people navigate the complex landscape of addictions, helping them find pathways forward by finding what lies behind addictions (mental health or developmental challenges, typically). EDUCATORS SHOULD LISTEN TO STUDENTS. THEY HAVE MUCH TO SAY Recently I spent a full day with learners talking about the kinds of learning environments and experiences that work best for them. Our group consisted of roughly 20 university learners from various disciplines and at different stages along their educational paths. ROSS LAIRD: CLINICAL CONSULTANT, AUTHOR, EDUCATOR ROSSSERVICESBLOGRESOURCESBOOKSNEWSLETTERABOUT Clinical Consultant, Author, Educator. I help organizations and communities navigate the complex challenges of mental health, addictions, and trauma BOOKS BY ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST-SELLINGSEE MORE ON ROSSLAIRD.COM
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES FROM ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS My work takes me to many places and into the lives of many people. Mental health, addictions, and trauma are (almost) universal experiences, and the ways we choose to deal with them are as diverse as cultures and individuals can be. SERVICES PROVIDED BY ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD I began my career 35 years ago, working with corporate executives on themes of team development. Those early experiences led me to a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology (with a focus on somatics and creativity), after which I opened a private practice and began to work with a diverse range of clients grappling with mental health and chronic pain issues. ABOUT ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST-SELLING I completed a doctoral degree that explored the therapeutic creative process and wrote my first book, Grain of Truth, which was a best-seller and finalist for the Governor General’s Award. At about the same time, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside was facing increasing challenges with addictions, poverty, and trauma. I reached out to social
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION WITH ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS I have been working with organizations and teams for 35 years. My teaching for professionals focuses on the deep interconnections between mental health, childhood development, addictions, and trauma. I speak frequently at schools, at conferences, in communities, and I offer workshops for a wide variety of organizations: social service agencies
HOW TO FINISH WOOD FOR BOATS ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST Woodworkers and boat builders are, on the whole, a contentious bunch. They argue about all kinds of things: tools, methods, aesthetics, materials.
HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST WOOD FOR YOUR BOAT ROSS LAIRD ROSS In an age of plastics and composites, wood has not surrendered its claim on the mariner. The color and texture of grain, the particular warmth of wood in the sun, the way a teak gunwale is shaped precisely to meet the grasping hand: these qualities of wood embody the romance of the sea.
ONE TREE IN BURNS BOG STANDS FOR ALL TREES ROSS LAIRD ROSS South of the riverbend, twenty minutes along a trail fringed with pink flowers of hardhack and gangly stalks of sweet gale, a black spruce that I call the World Tree stands against a spring sky. THE THERAPEUTIC USE OF OBJECTS IN HEALTH AND HEALING ROSS The oil lamp is small and fragile, worn down by almost two thousand years of accumulated grit, corrosion, darkness, and time. It was shaped by hand, with unfired clay, by a refugee fleeing Roman persecution in the fledgling age of Christianity. ROSS LAIRD: CLINICAL CONSULTANT, AUTHOR, EDUCATOR ROSSSERVICESBLOGRESOURCESBOOKSNEWSLETTERABOUT Clinical Consultant, Author, Educator. I help organizations and communities navigate the complex challenges of mental health, addictions, and trauma BOOKS BY ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST-SELLINGSEE MORE ON ROSSLAIRD.COM
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES FROM ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS My work takes me to many places and into the lives of many people. Mental health, addictions, and trauma are (almost) universal experiences, and the ways we choose to deal with them are as diverse as cultures and individuals can be. SERVICES PROVIDED BY ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD I began my career 35 years ago, working with corporate executives on themes of team development. Those early experiences led me to a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology (with a focus on somatics and creativity), after which I opened a private practice and began to work with a diverse range of clients grappling with mental health and chronic pain issues. ABOUT ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST-SELLING I completed a doctoral degree that explored the therapeutic creative process and wrote my first book, Grain of Truth, which was a best-seller and finalist for the Governor General’s Award. At about the same time, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside was facing increasing challenges with addictions, poverty, and trauma. I reached out to social
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION WITH ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS I have been working with organizations and teams for 35 years. My teaching for professionals focuses on the deep interconnections between mental health, childhood development, addictions, and trauma. I speak frequently at schools, at conferences, in communities, and I offer workshops for a wide variety of organizations: social service agencies
HOW TO FINISH WOOD FOR BOATS ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST Woodworkers and boat builders are, on the whole, a contentious bunch. They argue about all kinds of things: tools, methods, aesthetics, materials.
HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST WOOD FOR YOUR BOAT ROSS LAIRD ROSS In an age of plastics and composites, wood has not surrendered its claim on the mariner. The color and texture of grain, the particular warmth of wood in the sun, the way a teak gunwale is shaped precisely to meet the grasping hand: these qualities of wood embody the romance of the sea.
ONE TREE IN BURNS BOG STANDS FOR ALL TREES ROSS LAIRD ROSS South of the riverbend, twenty minutes along a trail fringed with pink flowers of hardhack and gangly stalks of sweet gale, a black spruce that I call the World Tree stands against a spring sky. THE THERAPEUTIC USE OF OBJECTS IN HEALTH AND HEALING ROSS The oil lamp is small and fragile, worn down by almost two thousand years of accumulated grit, corrosion, darkness, and time. It was shaped by hand, with unfired clay, by a refugee fleeing Roman persecution in the fledgling age of Christianity. BOOKS BY ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST-SELLING Grain of Truth: The Ancient Lessons of Craft. In addition to my other pursuits, I have been a professional writer since the release, in 2000, of my book Grain of Truth: The Ancient Lessons of Craft. The narrative follows the meandering track of my creative process as I complete eight craft projects. Grain of Truth became a national bestseller
COURSES TAUGHT BY ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST The courses I teach are focused on the integration of personal, professional, and academic development. My approach emphasizes learner engagement, purposeful creativity, and experiential self-development. WEB DEVELOPMENT AND MY OWN JOURNEY OF TECHNOLOGICAL The ever-shifting landscape of web development is a fascinating place. New tools and practices emerge, fresh approaches evolve, the ground shifts.
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THE BLOG OF ROSS LAIRD: CLINICAL CONSULTANT, AUTHOR A Webinar in Partnership with the BC Non-Profit Housing Association. Rethinking Recovery. How to Build an Effective Addictions Program HOW TO RECOVER FROM ADDICTION ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST Addiction has been the primary focus of my professional work for more than 30 years. I’ve worked with thousands of clients and hundreds of organizations. I provide consulting services for the development of addictions programs, clinical supervision for counsellors, psychotherapists, and front-line staff, and education for the wider community. The complex landscape of recovery is my THE ROSS LAIRD NEWSLETTER ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST Subscribe. I send out a newsletter about once every three months. It contains updates about events, news, articles, research, and similar items of interest to my readers. This is a private list with no advertising, no unsolicited emails, no affiliate marketing, and so on. It ’ s just me to you. I do not share, sell, or use your information in
RESOURCES FOR EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF MUSEUM WORK ROSS Stories are maps, repositories of collected wisdom, ciphers and guides for making sense of the human journey. Whether archaic, prosaic, or postmodern, stories render the paths undertaken by all those who seek resolution and healing. HEALING FROM ADDICTIONS BEGINS WITH MAKING SENSE OF ITS Addictions are pervasive. They are perhaps the most common human frailty. My work involves helping people navigate the complex landscape of addictions, helping them find pathways forward by finding what lies behind addictions (mental health or developmental challenges, typically). EDUCATORS SHOULD LISTEN TO STUDENTS. THEY HAVE MUCH TO SAY Recently I spent a full day with learners talking about the kinds of learning environments and experiences that work best for them. Our group consisted of roughly 20 university learners from various disciplines and at different stages along their educational paths. ROSS LAIRD: CLINICAL CONSULTANT, AUTHOR, EDUCATOR ROSSSERVICESBLOGRESOURCESBOOKSNEWSLETTERABOUT Clinical Consultant, Author, Educator. I help organizations and communities navigate the complex challenges of mental health, addictions, and trauma COURSES TAUGHT BY ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST The courses I teach are focused on the integration of personal, professional, and academic development. My approach emphasizes learner engagement, purposeful creativity, and experiential self-development. PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION WITH ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS I have been working with organizations and teams for 35 years. My teaching for professionals focuses on the deep interconnections between mental health, childhood development, addictions, and trauma. I speak frequently at schools, at conferences, in communities, and I offer workshops for a wide variety of organizations: social service agencies
HOW TO FINISH WOOD FOR BOATS ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST Woodworkers and boat builders are, on the whole, a contentious bunch. They argue about all kinds of things: tools, methods, aesthetics, materials.
ONGOING SKILL DEVELOPMENT ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST Creative writing skill is not the kind of thing that you master completely. It’s the same as other creative disciplines. You don’t become the perfect violin player by practicing playing the violin. HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST WOOD FOR YOUR BOAT ROSS LAIRD ROSS In an age of plastics and composites, wood has not surrendered its claim on the mariner. The color and texture of grain, the particular warmth of wood in the sun, the way a teak gunwale is shaped precisely to meet the grasping hand: these qualities of wood embody the romance of the sea.
ONE TREE IN BURNS BOG STANDS FOR ALL TREES ROSS LAIRD ROSS South of the riverbend, twenty minutes along a trail fringed with pink flowers of hardhack and gangly stalks of sweet gale, a black spruce that I call the World Tree stands against a spring sky. THE THERAPEUTIC USE OF OBJECTS IN HEALTH AND HEALING ROSS The oil lamp is small and fragile, worn down by almost two thousand years of accumulated grit, corrosion, darkness, and time. It was shaped by hand, with unfired clay, by a refugee fleeing Roman persecution in the fledgling age of Christianity. WOODWORKERS HAVE AN ETHICAL OBLIGATION TO PRESERVE WOODS We tend to think of the tension between pristine nature and human ambition as a contemporary struggle, but the urge to own and exploit forests is a fundamental human impulse. PROMOTING MENTAL HEALTH IN A MUSEUM SETTING ROSS LAIRD There is a growing trend in museum practice to evoke — and perhaps provoke — emotional experiences for visitors. The practices of direct creative engagement — touching, making, symbolic representation, metaphoric storytelling, collaborative object creation, immersive experience — are exemplary facilitators of ROSS LAIRD: CLINICAL CONSULTANT, AUTHOR, EDUCATOR ROSSSERVICESBLOGRESOURCESBOOKSNEWSLETTERABOUT Clinical Consultant, Author, Educator. I help organizations and communities navigate the complex challenges of mental health, addictions, and trauma COURSES TAUGHT BY ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST The courses I teach are focused on the integration of personal, professional, and academic development. My approach emphasizes learner engagement, purposeful creativity, and experiential self-development. PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION WITH ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS I have been working with organizations and teams for 35 years. My teaching for professionals focuses on the deep interconnections between mental health, childhood development, addictions, and trauma. I speak frequently at schools, at conferences, in communities, and I offer workshops for a wide variety of organizations: social service agencies
HOW TO FINISH WOOD FOR BOATS ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST Woodworkers and boat builders are, on the whole, a contentious bunch. They argue about all kinds of things: tools, methods, aesthetics, materials.
ONGOING SKILL DEVELOPMENT ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST Creative writing skill is not the kind of thing that you master completely. It’s the same as other creative disciplines. You don’t become the perfect violin player by practicing playing the violin. HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST WOOD FOR YOUR BOAT ROSS LAIRD ROSS In an age of plastics and composites, wood has not surrendered its claim on the mariner. The color and texture of grain, the particular warmth of wood in the sun, the way a teak gunwale is shaped precisely to meet the grasping hand: these qualities of wood embody the romance of the sea.
ONE TREE IN BURNS BOG STANDS FOR ALL TREES ROSS LAIRD ROSS South of the riverbend, twenty minutes along a trail fringed with pink flowers of hardhack and gangly stalks of sweet gale, a black spruce that I call the World Tree stands against a spring sky. THE THERAPEUTIC USE OF OBJECTS IN HEALTH AND HEALING ROSS The oil lamp is small and fragile, worn down by almost two thousand years of accumulated grit, corrosion, darkness, and time. It was shaped by hand, with unfired clay, by a refugee fleeing Roman persecution in the fledgling age of Christianity. WOODWORKERS HAVE AN ETHICAL OBLIGATION TO PRESERVE WOODS We tend to think of the tension between pristine nature and human ambition as a contemporary struggle, but the urge to own and exploit forests is a fundamental human impulse. PROMOTING MENTAL HEALTH IN A MUSEUM SETTING ROSS LAIRD There is a growing trend in museum practice to evoke — and perhaps provoke — emotional experiences for visitors. The practices of direct creative engagement — touching, making, symbolic representation, metaphoric storytelling, collaborative object creation, immersive experience — are exemplary facilitators of SERVICES PROVIDED BY ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD I began my career 35 years ago, working with corporate executives on themes of team development. Those early experiences led me to a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology (with a focus on somatics and creativity), after which I opened a private practice and began to work with a diverse range of clients grappling with mental health and chronic pain issues. ONGOING SKILL DEVELOPMENT ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST Creative writing skill is not the kind of thing that you master completely. It’s the same as other creative disciplines. You don’t become the perfect violin player by practicing playing the violin. THE READING PROJECT ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST-SELLING Ross Laird, PhD RCC. Clinical Consultant, Author, Educator. This page is part of the series of resources for learners enrolled in my courses on creativity and creative writing. My approach to teaching is learner-centered, interdisciplinary, and grounded in human development.
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PROJECTS & DUE DATES ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST-SELLING Writing is a deep skill – the type of skill that is complex, diverse, and personally challenging. As with all deep skills, learning to write well is hard. There are so many factors that contribute to skill development, so many things to consider, so much diversity in the forms of writing. MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES FROM ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD ROSS Resources for Creativity Pathways of Health, Healing, and Personal Development. Deepening Creativity. Discovering Creativity as a Guide to the Human Journey INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING Every creative tradition and cultural mythology affirms the fundamental role that creativity plays in personal development. The path of self-knowledge is the most rewarding journey we can undertake, yet it is also the hardest. We are challenged by our family histories, by
WRITING PROJECT OVERVIEW ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST Depending on the course in which you are enrolled, your writing project will take a particular shape and will explore specific themes. (For more specifics, review the writing project page for your course.) SELF-AWARENESS PROJECT ROSS LAIRD ROSS LAIRD: BEST-SELLING The self-awareness project is an opportunity to reflect upon the depth of your experience in the course. How did it go? What happened? What did you notice?
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