John Schlimm

2022 Commencement Address at Northern Pennsylvania Regional College

Rise From There! Commencement Address By John Schlimm Northern Pennsylvania Regional College May 21, 2022 ______________________________________________________________________________        THANK YOU!        It is such an honor for me to be here today with you graduates, at this extraordinary new starting line in your lives....

THE BRAIN ZINE: How often do you think about your brain?

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month—May 2022, Harvard-trained educator, artist, advocate, and international award-winning author John Schlimm partnered with AllMed Healthcare Management to ask everyone an extraordinarily simple question: How often do you think about your brain? Like really think about that...

THE SMILE ZINE

THE SMILE ZINE: Art and smiles should be accessible to everyone is an 80-page Community Art project created by John Schlimm as both a grassroots call-to-action around Arts and Mental Health, and as a visual journey that allows the viewer of any age...

“Helping Families Be Happy” Podcast Interview

[video width="720" height="720" mp4="https://johnschlimm.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/PODCAST-CLIP-Helping-Families-Be-Happy-with-John-Schlimm.mp4"][/video]   🌟 I recently sat down with Clinical Psychologist Dr. Carla Marie Manly for her Helping Families Be Happy podcast to discuss The Star Jumped Over the Moon, the limitless power of our imagination, mental health, and how young...

“Raising Up The Imagination Generation” ~ An Essay By John Schlimm

Raising Up The Imagination Generation   By John Schlimm ______________________________________________________________________________   Kids born after 2012 are tagged as Generation Alpha—a term coined by Australian researchers led by Mark McCrindle to maintain, as he told The New York Times, “scientific nomenclature” in denoting the...

The Plant KINDNESS Zine

Hello, YOU! Welcome to The Plant KINDNESS Zine! You can download the zine for free via the button below. At The Kindness Rocks & Smiles Community Project™, we believe in the potential of every person to plant, cultivate, and spread kindness and smiles...

Back-to-School Inspiration: Re-sharing My “Life is Art” Essay from Huffington Post

To send some Back-to-School INSPIRATION out into the world, I am re-sharing my "Life is Art" essay that I wrote for Huffington Post. ENJOY & SOAR!!! "Each of us is a creator, an artist. Of ourselves. This I believe: Life is art. Every...