From Start to Finish: Mindfulness, Stoicism and the Creative Process

This On-Demand Learning opportunity, From Start to Finish: Mindfulness, Stoicism, and the Creative Process, invites helping professionals to explore how mindfulness and Stoic philosophy can inspire and sustain the creative process. Led by Ranjini George, PhD, MFA, this session draws on the teachings ofcreative and spiritual visionaries such as Angeles Arrien, Lama Tsultrim Allione, Richard Rohr, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh, blending lecture, mindfulness, generative writing, and discussion. Learn practical strategies to overcome creative blocks and nourish your artistic endeavors, whether for personal expression or professional application.

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Featured Speaker: Ranjini George

Ranjini George holds a PhD and MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. As an Associate Professor of English at Zayed University, Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, she ran the Teaching with the Mind of Mindfulness series. She won the Arnold B. Fox Award for Research Writing (Northern Illinois University) and was a Georges & Ann Bochardt Fiction Scholar at the Sewanee Writer’s Conference in Tennessee, USA. More recently, she won the first place in Canada’s inaugural Coffee Shop Author Contest for her travel memoir, a work-in-progress, Miracle of Flowers, and a joint-third for the Odes to Aurelius contest hosted by Modern Stoicism and the Aurelius foundation. She currently teaches courses such as Meditation & Writing, Pilgrimage to the Sacred Feminine, Stoicism and the Good Life and Mindfulness for Discipline & Productivity at the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto, and received the 2019 Excellence in Teaching Award. She is also a visiting teacher for the Tara Mandala Buddhist International organization. She presents in venues such as the Parliament of World Religions, Toronto, and was a featured speaker at the first Stoicon-x Women’s International event, June 2021. Her book, Through My Mother’s Window: Emirati Women Tell their Stories and Recipes was published in Dubai in December 2016. Connect: The Kuan Yin Story Cafe on Facebook and @RanjiniGeorge1 on Twitter.