Looking to Nature for Wisdom in Embracing Change/ Harnessing Creativity/ Dealing with Chaos
Dr. Barbara Frank helps individuals, groups and organizations deal innovatively with change in their professional and personal lives.
She does this by drawing on her unique understanding of the way the Earth has responded to change throughout its 4.6 billion years of history.
Early in her career, Barbara was given the nickname “Doc Rock” by her college students. It accurately reflects her intimate knowledge of earth systems, her deep love of the Earth and her appreciation of the need for mankind to stay connected to Nature.
As a Professor of Geology/Environmental Science at the University of Maryland in Munich, Germany for fifteen years, she traveled extensively and presented lectures and seminars in most European countries. Her humor and simple straightforward way of explaining what is going on in the natural world and our place within natural systems provides one with tools for coping with change and at the same time makes one feel good about being an “Earthling.”
For six years as Senior Change Manager with the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, Doc Rock worked on helping individuals, groups deal with one of the most challenging and controversial issues of the day: cleanup of nuclear waste. Realizing that people are most challenged by change and seem often unable to tap into their own creativity in the midst of change, Doc Rock developed workshops and lectures drawing on nature’s expertise in the arena of chaos, change and creativity
Topics:
- “Earth Secrets in Coping with Change”
Mother Earth is a dynamic changing planet. Homo sapiens has evolved, as has all biologic life on the planet, in response to change. The good news is we can deal with change—this is natural to us. With chaos comes opportunities. Even catastrophic events are the norm. Seen in this light, change does not seem so overwhelming and negative.
“Having a creative block?—look to the Earth’s natural systems for inspiration”
Mankind may wish to believe that we are the great inventors. Doc Rock helps us see that whatever we think we have invented is already in Nature. How is it that Nature is so creative? What are the principles active in Nature? Can we increase our creativity? Dr. Barbara Frank helps us to tap into our natural creativity—every one is creative!!
- Presentations for all ages which inform, challenge and entertain:
Dinosaur existence as a 180 million-year success story; Feeling at “home” on our wonderful and wild planet; Earthquakes, volcanoes and floods seen as a sign of the Earth’s dynamic and nurturing nature.
- “The Pothole Mystery and the Secret of Balanced Rocks in Great Falls Park
Doc Rock helps us to understand how small clues reveal the story of Earth History in the park. Holes in the rocks in the park plus rocks balanced to fall into the river--mysteries to be solved by young and old.
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Doc Rock
+1 703-759-0038
fax +1208-723-9544
