Claiming Face™
An Educator's Guide to Building the Powerful Link
Between Creativity and A Sense of Self
Bringing the philosophy and powerful tools of Claiming Face into the classroom is made possible with the Claiming Face Educator’s Guide. Written by Maya Gonzalez, this curriculum for students and educators focuses on art as a to
ol to develop a strong sense of self.
This is an excellent tool to encourage:
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The format of the Guide supports educators first and foremost for themselves and provides an opportunity to engage and know, from multiple levels of experience, the power of Claiming Face. Through imagination exercises and questions you bring yourself forward to personally play with the embodiment of the philosophy. Exploring and practicing presence adds another dimension to the work for yourself and for your students.
Divided into 3 Parts, you will explore, in-depth, the philosophy in Part 1 of the Guide, including The 3 Rules as a distillation of the philosophy; walk through the classroom environment, materials, and books that support the curriculum in Part 2; and then delve into the 26 Claiming Face projects in Part 3.
All 26 projects use a vast and diverse sense of self-portraiture to build the powerful link between creativity and a sense of self. These 26 projects, organized into 6 distinctive categories of Reflection, Express, Explore, Empower, Expand, and Freedom, can be easily adapted to any grade from kindergarten to college and beyond. Maya has used these exercises with 3 year olds to 18 year olds and from student teachers to college professors.
The layout and visual design of the Guide is intentionally arranged in such as way as to offer as much support as possible to the educator in their journey to bring Claiming Face into their lives and classroom. With summaries of important points, diagrams, step-by-step photographs, journal space to explore, checklists, quick reference sections for art materials and Maya’s children’s books, handouts, and a whole lot more, you can use the Guide first for yourself and then serve as a model for your students. Are you ready to Claim Face?
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"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept." - John William Gardner
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