“The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life” by the Zanders is one of the books provided as recommended reading for the annual “Boot Camp for Profs” program.  Each of the book’s twelve  chapters  develops a specific practice for achieving their vision—that of bringing possibility to life.

The uniqueness of this how-to book is in the perspective the authors bring to this work.  Benjamin Zander is founder and conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and professor at the New England Conservatory of Music.   Rosamund Stone Zander is a family therapist and landscape painter.  Their backgrounds provide a rich encounter for the reader as to how the arts can form and inform our personal development and our professional practice as teachers. 

This book was recommended by Professor Claire McDonald in the UST Drama department who attended last year’s “Boot Camp for Profs”.   The book compliments this month’s “Let’s Talk Teaching” with its focus on “The Act of Teaching” as facilitated by Nancy Houfek, Head of Voice and Speech for the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. 

The book is available in the CFE Library.

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