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Explore our site to discover a fresh and exciting contribution to creative education, and see how the Merge System for Creative Education can make a difference in your teaching, parenting, or mentoring. We welcome you!

Parents and teachers — Mentoring Guide and Curriculum to break negative patterns and power struggles, and create new pathways into happier relationships with your children.

K-12 Schools — Creative Education to engage and motivate students to learn, plus all the tools you need to develop an after-school arts program including sophisticated yet simple-to-use evaluation and assessment software.

Community Organizations — All the specific, hands-on tools you need to develop a creative mentoring program, including sophisticated yet simple-to-use evaluation and program management software for the competitive edge on grants and other funding.

Creative Education: for many, a new way of thinking

by William Rossi
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Education should encourage self-discovery and enable students to engage with themselves and think for themselves. It should fill the students’ emotional needs along with the intellectual. Students need to be able to create an inner dialogue and converse with themselves in order to form a foundation that makes them whole and turns the tide of [...]

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The Merge Magic

by Christina Lengyel

On Wednesday the 28th, I truly came to understand the impact of the Merge approach while I was at the Chester County Art Association’s Pumpkin Carve.  I have been learning about and working with Merge for a few months now, and I had built up a great deal of enthusiasm for the program.  It is [...]

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Who’s At Risk?

by Christina Lengyel

Before reading Venturing Together, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect.  I had familiarized myself with Merge and its mission, and I was eager to learn more.  The introductory chapters, however, described the state of our society and the dire level of need for community in our communities.  I was, of course, expecting this background, [...]

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Austen Goodman — A Merge Success!

by Austen Goodman

My name is Austen Goodman and I’m a senior in high school.  I struggled in school.  After 3rd grade it wasn’t about learning anymore and it seemed that it was only about the final product.  I never had the opportunity to process the information.  I would be rushed to finish my work, and I wouldn’t [...]

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Creative Expression — a light at the end of the tunnel

by Christina Lengyel

It is my belief that we are most proud of the work we do when we express our humanity.  The process of expression is deeply cathartic, and outside appreciation for our art also serves as an affirmation of our humanness.  Merge seems to be linked intrinsically to the oppression that produced some of our greatest [...]

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Mentoring as a Shared Experience

by Christina Lengyel

It is very plain that Western culture suffers some serious wounds.  In my undergraduate studies, I became much more attuned to the specific nature of our societal dysfunction.  I studied African culture heavily in my anthropology program, and I began to see that on a psychological level the advantages of living in a collective society [...]

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What doesn’t kill us ... can make us creative

by Dawn Mehan

As the season is changing, one can notice how the shorter days and cooler temperatures affect behavior. Our clothing changes. We may go inside more often because we are sensitive to cold. Some of us prepare to leave for the winter for a sunnier and warmer place. Some may surrender to seasonal depression and find [...]

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Different Ways of Learning — First Takes

by Dawn Mehan

Bill’s approach has really helped me to see the different ways in which students learn. You may already know this to be true for the way you learn; you may need to understand a process mentally before diving in … you may need to walk through the experience physically before understanding it mentally … you may [...]

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