Imaginative Intelligence Resources
TEDx talks by Imaginative Storm co-founders
Allegra Huston
Imaginative Intelligence: Your creativity, your insight, your self
James Navé
From the Imaginative Storm to the Creative Form
Creativity Workshops and Retreats
Sarah Gillespie: songwriting courses and mentoring
Highly acclaimed singer-songwriter Sarah Gillespie isrenowned for mixing elements of blues, folk and jazz with her distinctive streetwise lyricism. Sarah offers workshops and personal mentoring at various levels. With Sarah’s guidance, you will write lyrics, set them to music, and record your songs. She will even produce your album and release it on her label.
SoundYourSelf Piano Improvisation
With acclaimed musician Daniel Barber. Courses, private classes, coaching, and community to make your own music medicine.
Just Draw the Boots: Figure Drawing
With acclaimed artist Alex Alford, on Zoom and in person in Asheville, Atlanta, New York, and elsewhere in the US and Europe. An important practice for artists and non-artists alike, the practice of drawing the human figure from life builds empathy, patience, tolerance, and appreciation for human diversity. And it changes your view of yourself and your potential. Read blog post
Mirabai Starr: Spiritual Retreats & Workshops
Award-winning author, contemporary translator of sacred literature, international speaker, and world-renowned teacher of contemplative practice and inter-spiritual dialog. A certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the transformational power of loss. Her book, WILD MERCY: Living the Fierce & Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics, continues to sell widely and has been translated into multiple languages.
Mirabai’s most recent book, Ordinary Mysticism (2024), celebrates the imagination, not-knowing, amazement, and the surprises of everyday experience: just as we do in the Imaginative Storm.
Books by Other Thinkers
Psychology
Carl Jung, Selected Writings
Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment
R. D. Laing, The Divided SelfMihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind
Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence
Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society and Gandhi's Truth
Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score
Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person
Theory of mind
Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary
Daniel Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back
Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds
Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop
Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation
Aspects of imaginative intelligence
Dacher Keltner, Awe
David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous
Stuart Brown, Play
Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation
Walter Isaacson, Einstein
Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Ruth Zaporah, Improvisation on the Edge
Susie Hodge, How Art Can Change Your Life
Ken Jennings, Planet Funny: How Comedy Ruined Everything
Neuroscience
Candace Pert, Molecules of Emotion
Moheb Costandi, Neuroplasticity
Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens and Descartes' Error
Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight
Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire, Wired to Create
Christopher J. Wertz, Muhammad O. Chohan, Rance A. Flores, and Rex E. Jung, "Neuroanatomy of Creative Achievement"
Ronald W. Dworkin, "When I Lost My Intuition," from Medical Catastrophe: Confessions of an Anesthesiologist
F. R. Van der Weel and Audrey L. H. Van der Meer, "Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom," Frontiers in Psychology