Michele's Books:
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Point Zero Painting
Creativity Without Limits
by Michele Cassou
In Life, Paint and Passion, Michele Cassou showed readers how to recover the magic of childlike intuitive expression. In Point Zero, she takes this refreshing process further by providing an original method of self-inquiry that can be used in the face of doubt, conflict, and lack of creative inspiration. The creative quest, Cassou teaches, asks us to confront three dragons: the Dragon of Product, which fights the artist's spontaneity; the Dragon of Control, which bars the door to the unknown and the truly mysterious; and the Dragon of Meaning, which suppresses our intuition and creativity by demanding interpretation and resolution with every move.
In this wonderful book, Cassou arms us with a clear method for creating fresh and piercing questions related to our being blocked in the moment. She shows us how, by coming face to face with the energy that creates our blocks, we can return to Point Zero, the ground from which pure creation springs. In this place of infinite possibility, art becomes not a means to an end but a way of being that will guide us to an understanding of the spiritual mystery of our lives.
"Michele Cassou is a catalytic visionary: a fuse lighter
who sends people rocketing into their creativity."
—Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way
Jeremy P. Tarcher, publisher (US)
$17.95 + Tax
[The book Point Zero is available in German
Publisher J. Kamphausen
order by e-mail: info@j-kamphausen.de ]
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Life, Paint & Passion
Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Expression
Michele recounts her early years of teaching—the joys, frustrations, and celebrations faced by her students. Extremely helpful for beginning and experienced painters alike, this book provides a deeper insight into the exciting world of painting. Offers powerful questions to help move the painter back into the world of spontaneous expression.
Jeremy P. Tarcher, publisher (US)
$17.95 + Tax
"Like spring winds, this book and its painting process fling open the doorway
to the garden of the spirit, bring enormous healing and deep fertile renewal,
offering the heart a beautiful garden for its dance."
—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart
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Kids Play: Igniting Children's Creativity
An inspirational guide for parents and teachers.
This book reveals the essence of creativity
as play and self-expression. It also shows the
dramatically important role parents and teachers
can play as guides and catalysts and how they
can help remove obstacles to jump-start their
children's creative power. Full of heartwarming
stories of children's creative breakthroughs.
Kids Play is also a magical book for adults that want
to reclaim the magic of spontaneous expression.
Penguin/Putnam Publisher.
$17.95 + Tax + Shipping & Handling
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Teachers That Dare
Using the Creative Process to Teach the Creative Process
Inspirational and practical, this book is for anyone interested in teaching creativity, whatever the medium. This unique book guides the reader through the different stages, discoveries, and pitfalls of the teaching process, making it an essential gool for beginners or seasoned teachers. Dozens of fun drawings illustrate the different points and make the book a delight to read or browse through.
Teachers That Dare presents teaching as a path of self-discovery and self-exploration for the teacher and student alike. This unique approach offers a solid foundation for understanding, awakening, and supporting the creative potential. When used as a teacher's workbook, it serves as a constant and supporting companion!
Size: 8.5 X 11, 200 pages
$25.00, Plus shipping
add $5.00 for shipping in the US;
add $7.00 for shipping in Canada;
add $11.00 for shipping in Europe
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The Buddhist Art Doctor
Prescriptions For Creative and Non-Creative Seekers
40 page booklet, $12.95 plus Shipping & Handling
Also available in German or French: info@j-kamphausen.de
The Buddhist Art Doctor offers remedies and wisdom to those interested
in exploring the spiritual dimensions of the creative process. The Doctor
exposes the source of each creative block or doubt, freeing the way. Each
block becomes a welcome opportunity to go beyond the self.
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Questions Workbook (30 pages)
Helpful questions to awaken your creative power to the fullest.
A great resource while creating. The booklet presents a series of
ready-made questions to stimulate inspiration and dissolve
creative blocks.
It will guide you through the different stages of the creative process. How
to start. How to go on despite creative blocks, and how to complete your work.
$10 + Tax + shipping and handling.
Recommended use after reading Life, Paint and Passion and
Point Zero Painting
Also available in French and German.
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Michele's Videos:
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The Flowering of Children's Creativity (67minutes)
Discovering the natural evolution of children's creativity and helping them find the joy of self-expression.
Based on a presentation given by Michele at The Exploratorium, Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception, in San Francisco. In this DVD,
Michele draws from her unique approach and shows parents and teachers how they can inspire children to discover the magical world of spontaneous expression.
She shows us the important role adults can play in safeguarding spontaneity and intuition, and how they can help children by inspiring them to trust the creative voice.
Many pointers are given along the way to guide the viewer to a new and unforgettable understanding of children's creativity. The information is both surprising and insightful.
This DVD also includes:
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over 100 paintings (done by children 5-15 years old) |
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an additional segment for Working with Children |
$35.00 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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SPECIAL OFFER:
Reduced price on CD-DVD combo-pack.
Get $5.00 off when you buy Michele's new DVD "The Flowering of Children's Creativity" and her new CD "How To Jump Start Children's Creative Power" together.
That's a $50.00 combined value for the reduced price of $45.00.
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$45.00 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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Point Zero: Insights and Images (45 minutes)
(available as DVD only)
An in-depth introduction of the creative process and the Point Zero
method by Michele Cassou on DVD. Michele presents an original method of self-inquiry
that can be used in the face of doubt, conflict, and lack of creative inspiration.
She exposes the three dragons that stand in the way of spontaneous intuitive
expression. 16 of her paintings are featured to illustrate the creative process.
DVD Format: $30 + Tax + Shipping and Handling.
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Creativity and Passion
(available as DVD only)
A wonderful introduction to Michele's teaching. A lively talk full of
insights and stories featuring Michele's unique approach to painting. A video that will
bring forth your desire to create.
DVD Format: $25 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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Birth of a Process (48 minutes)
(available as VHS or DVD)
Features 86 of Michele's paintings: A classic!
A unique documentary on Michele's personal journey into the creative process from her
first painting to the full unfolding of her process. This video will bring great insights
into the nature of intuition, creativity, and spirit.
This video includes 9 1/2 min. excerpted from the video tape, “Creativity and
Passion”.)
DVD Format: $30 + Tax + shipping and handling.
VHS Format: $15 + Tax + shipping and handling. Sale price.
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Michele's CDs and Audio Tapes:
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How To Jump Start Children's Creative Power (67minutes)
A CD that shows the dramatically important role parents and teachers can play as guides and catalysts for children's creativity and how they can help remove obstacles on the creative path.
Michele also leads us to discover the natural evolution of children's creativity and how to help children find the joy of self-expression.
Her unique method has enabled many children to trust their creative voice and experience the full magic of creativity. The information on this CD is fresh, inspiring and essential.
$15.00 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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SPECIAL OFFER:
Reduced price on CD-DVD combo-pack.
Get $5.00 off when you buy Michele's new DVD "The Flowering of Children's Creativity" and her new CD "How To Jump Start Children's Creative Power" together.
That's a $50.00 combined value for the reduced price of $45.00.
To receive this limited special offer please add both items to the cart using the button on the right only.
Check your shopping cart carefully to make sure the offer is in effect for you. We don't
want you to miss it.
$45.00 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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2-CD SET:
Creativity Without Limits (160 min)
A 5-Day Workshop at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA
A truly inspiring 2-CD set of talks and discussions recorded during this transformative painting workshop. Day by day, Michele reveals ways to use the creative process, and discover its unlimited possibilities. With new understanding, painting becomes an adventure into the mystery of the inner self. The Point Zero method unfolds its secrets, and frees the painter to express their deepest feelings and explore the unknown. This CD is especially recommended to painters of all levels. A must.
$25.00 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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NEW! 2-CD SET:
Creativity Rediscovered
From an 8 day workshop in Taos, New Mexico.
This 2-CD set offers the jewels of an 8 day workshop given in Taos, New Mexico, May 2007. Highly recommended for beginners and continuing students, this 2-CD set explores the deepest meaning of creativity and how to fully explore the creative potential.
CD One:
True Purpose of Creativity (8:48)
Entering Spontaneity (17:14)
Principles of Creativity (11:59)
Fascination with Product (8:41)
Developing Tools (10:22)
CD Two:
Letting Go of Problems (32:42)
The Meaning of Your Images (31:41)
$25.00 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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NEW! 2-CD SET:
Exploring Creativity in Taos
(Excerpts from Taos workshop 2005 and 2006)
A wise and profound CD that can renew our inspiration to create and revive passion for our authenticity. By understanding the true nature of creativity and coming face to face with creative blocks, we can return to Point Zero the ground from which creation springs. By rediscovering the magic of spontaneous expression, art becomes not a means to an end but a way of being that will guide us to the spiritual mystery of our lives.
CD One:
- Why Paint?
- Need of intense images
- Outside thinking
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- The shift
- Control and the alarm clock
- The wisdom of discomfort (2006)
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$25.00 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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2-CD SET:
Spiritual Aspects of the Creative Process, Volume 1
(180 min)
For those that have listened to "Understanding Creativity," Michele presents another inspiring 2-CD set. This recording lays out a solid foundation for continuing the work and shows how creativity can profoundly affect the way we live our lives. "Spiritual Aspects of Creativity" explores the deepest aspects of creativity. It is recommended for those engaged on the creative path and/or for those wanting to teach this work. This set was recorded during actual teaching sessions and there are plenty of questions from Michele's Master Intensive students. Lots of fun; expect to laugh out loud while listening!
$25.00 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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2-CD SET:
Spiritual Aspects of the Creative Process, Volume 2
(140 min)
Michele inquires into the roots of creativity leading the listener to feel and understand the transforming power of the creative force. She also expands on how our creative process affects the perceptions of 'who we think we are'. In pure creation, the spirit wakes up and the old ideas of 'me' get out of the way leading us to experience life in a new way. These inspiring and insightful discussions are delivered with passion and humor.
$25.00 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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2-CD SET:
Spiritual Aspects of the Creative Process, Volume 3
(105 min)
In this CD Michele's passionate and unique voice helps us understand how the essence of creativity and spirit are one. She invites us to see how the heart can respond to criticism and judgments and free the painter within. Michele also shows us how the monkey mind and its gossip images block the door to the moment, and she expands in a new and striking way on how each of us can access our deepest feelings. Recorded during actual teaching sessions of the master class.
$25.00 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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NEW! 2-CD SET:
Spiritual Aspects of the Creative Process, Volume 4
Michele dedicates this essential audio series to the exciting world of teaching the creative process. Recorded during the 2006 Master Classes, these fascinating talks guide the listener through working with projection, content, meaning, and exploring Point Zero as a teacher.
Ultimately, we teach in the same way we paint - we surrender to the present moment. This CD reminds us how to tap into the same place as we work with students. This recording is excellent for those interested in teaching the creative process, and anyone interested in deepening their practice.
$25.00 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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NEW! 2-CD SET:
Spiritual Aspects of the Creative Process, Volume 5
This 2-CD set further unravels the deeper meaning of the creative process. Through experiential exploration, Michele guides us far beyond the basics. She provides a refreshing new way to look at the power of the creative force and how to allow it to gain surprising momentum. Highly recommended for experienced painters and those interested in teaching.
Content of CD One:
1. Trust and Blind Spots (27:21)
2. "Where" is your life? (23:24)
3. Embodying and Teaching (21:09)
Content of CD Two:
1. Tips and Pointers (44:18)
2. Being Aware of Systems (30:29)
$25.00 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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SPECIAL OFFER:
Reduced price on combined set containing all 5 volumes of the Spiritual Aspects series.
Get $20.00 off when you buy the first 5 Volumes in the CD series Spiritual Aspects of The Creative Process as a combined set. You get 4 volumes containing 2 CD's each for a total of 8 CDs.
That's a $125.00 combined value for the reduced price of $105.00.
To receive this limited special offer please add the combined set to the cart using the button on the right only.
Check your shopping cart carefully to make sure the offer is in effect for you. We don't
want you to miss it.
$105.00 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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The Creative Process (92 minute audio tape)
Excerpts on audio tape from talks and discussions from
one of Michele's five-day workshops.
$10 + Tax + shipping and handling.
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