Completed the requirements to achieve the status of Advanced Simply Music Teacher, teaching this revolutionary, Australian-developed piano learning method that offers a breakthrough in music education. This remarkable approach has students of all ages playing great-sounding contemporary, classical, gospel, blues and accompaniment pieces — immediately — from their very first lessons.
Learn more at potluckcreativearts.com.
Simply Music
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Accredited Simply Music Teacher
Completed the accreditation process to become an accredited teacher of Simply Music, a revolutionary, Australian-developed piano learning method that offers a breakthrough in music education. This remarkable approach has students of all ages playing great-sounding contemporary, classical, gospel, blues and accompaniment pieces — immediately — from their very first lessons.
Learn more at potluckcreativearts.com.
Simply Music
Songwriter, Producer, Instrumentalist, Arranger, Engineer; Everybody’s Invited
43 minutes, stereo, CD and MP3. Debut album from The Offhand Band, released by Potluck Creative Arts.
Listen at theoffhandband.com.
Launched theoffhandband.com
Launched theoffhandband.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
Founder, Webmaster; The Offhand Band
- Founded this music act to create satisfying songs that are cool for kids, fun for families and great for the grown on their own.
- Webmaster for theoffhandband.com.
Licensed Simply Music Teacher
Completed the training process to become a licensed teacher of Simply Music, a revolutionary, Australian-developed piano learning method that offers a breakthrough in music education. This remarkable approach has students of all ages playing great-sounding contemporary, classical, gospel, blues and accompaniment pieces — immediately — from their very first lessons.
Learn more at potluckcreativearts.com.
Simply Music
Relaunched marksmeritt.com as an interactive resume and biography website
- Relaunched marksmeritt.com with an innovative WordPress/database-driven interactive resume and biography.
- Detailed the relaunch process in My Life in Tags: Creating an Interactive Resume and Biographical Website.
Founder, Webmaster; MarkSMeritt.com
- Founded this web site to serve as a central hub for information about my pursuits and background, including an innovative WordPress/database-driven interactive resume.
- Webmaster for marksmeritt.com.
Launched marksmeritt.com
Launched marksmeritt.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
Launched potluckcreativearts.com
- Launched potluckcreativearts.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
- Launched multiple podcasts, plus Resources section to help visitors learn about creativity and how to express themselves through their own lives.
Developed new music, arts and creativity services
Developed innovative Songwriting Workshops, Singalong Workshops, Creativity Coaching service and custom songwriting/composition/writing services, most using Appreciative Inquiry to foster collaborative creativity.
Visit Potluck Creative Arts.
Editor, A Life Worth Living
Non-fiction book by William F. Giruzzi that explores the possibility of creating a new way of life where good things happen naturally for people.
Relaunched potluck.com using WordPress
Relaunched potluck.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
Relaunched arts.potluck.com
Relaunched arts.potluck.com, adding services including composition, lyric-writing, musical arrangements and production, as well as writing and directing for motion pictures and theatre.
Founder, Principal, Webmaster; Potluck Creative Arts
Potluck Creative Arts, Red Hook, NY
- Promoting my activities as a musician, songwriter, composer, lyricist, arranger, music producer, pianist/keyboardist, music/arts/creativity educator/facilitator and writer/director for motion pictures and theatre.
- Services offered include Songwriting Workshops; Singalong Workshops; Custom Songs; Custom Instrumentals; Custom Writing; Creativity Coaching; Music Lessons; Piano/Keyboard Performance; Musical Arrangements and Production; Directing for Motion Pictures and Theatre.
- Webmaster for potluckcreativearts.com.
Obtained D/B/A for Potluck Creative Arts
Obtained Certificate of Doing Business Under Assumed Name (“D/B/A”) from Dutchess County Clerk’s Office to do business under the name Potluck Creative Arts.
Visit Potluck Creative Arts.
Music/Piano Teacher, Alfred methods
Using Alfred piano methods including the Basic Piano Course, Prep Course for the Younger Beginner, and Music for Little Mozarts.
Learn more at potluckcreativearts.com.
Alfred Piano Methods
Founder, Principal, Webmaster; Potluck Arts
- Created this business to promote my arts performances and educational efforts, including concerts, singalongs and music lessons.
- Webmaster for arts.potluck.com, using custom HTML programming.
Co-Presenter; Emergent Associates, LLC: Trailblazing Tribalizing
- Invited presentation describing how Emergent Associates’ approach can foster a positive change revolution rooted in human-scale social structures. Co-presented by Dr. Howard Ditkoff.
- IshCon Spring 2005, Quaker Hill Conference Center, Richmond, IN, May 27-30, 2005.
Emergent Associates incorporates
Emergent Associates incorporates as a Michigan Limited Liability Company.
Learn more at potluck.com.
Emergent Associates, LLC
Co-Founder, Research and Development Advisor; Emergent Associates, LLC
Emergent Associates, LLC, Oak Park, MI
- Co-founded this coaching, consulting and training company which uses Appreciative Inquiry and positive psychology as a framework for integrating best practices and knowledge from organizational development, developmental/evolutionary psychology and systems-related disciplines to create practical tools which mutually foster empowerment and community for individuals and groups.
- Co-created proprietary rapid coaching techniques, integrating AI and developmental psychology and able to produce “eureka” results in as little as 10 minutes.
- Co-developer of a set of proprietary communication tools to foster positive change, informed by AI along with several established effective communication techniques, relationship models and personality typologies.
- Co-created a dynamic model of psychological development informed by complexity science, positive psychology, personality typologies and several universal models of human development.
Founder, Principal Contributor, Webmaster; Potluck
- Founded this web site to present original works, including many that explore familiar topics from a systems perspective.
- Webmaster for potluck.com.
Launched potluck.com
Launched Potluck at potluck.com, using custom HTML programming.
Author, Viewpoint on Food and Population, for Mother Earth News
Contracted by Mother Earth News to write this piece exploring the relationship between food supply and population size. Unpublished.
Read at potluck.com.
Mother Earth News
Founder, Editor, Webmaster; Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between
- Founded this online magazine to explore familiar topics from a systems perspective. Subsequently relaunched as Potluck.
- Webmaster for www.mosaic.permaculture.net, using custom HTML programming.