About the author
Eileen E. Cooper, Ph.D. has taught gifted education for over forty years. Her visionary book on original thinking shifts our view of reality by weaving together the intricate connections between mind, body, and spirit. It makes public important creative-intellectual skills needed to meet the demanding challenges of our age.
Writing from the perspective of a professional educator, Cooper is adept at making complex ideas simple while enthusiastically engaging the reader in mind expanding strategies. Her educational articles on creativity and inventive thinking have appeared in The Journal of Creative Behavior, Gifted Child Today Magazine, and the Journal for the Education of the Gifted.
Dr. Cooper holds the distinction of winning the Donald Parker Scholarship for most innovative research from Saybrook University, being Rollo May’s last graduate student, and winning a Fulbright Scholarship to Japan. As an expressionistic painter, she exhibits locally in Connecticut.