Epigraph Dedication Author's Note Table of Contents PROLOGUE Witches Can Read Soft Skills: A Fool's Journey PART ONE: LIVING AND EXPERIENCING You Can Be the Narrator of My Story If Knowledge Inhabits Us (It's a Verb) Big Story Little Story Father and the Military Healing Wars: Two Stories Identity, Death, and Expertise You Cannot Reckon Without Addressing Shame Inviting Lived Experiences Caretaking Old and New Moving Memory Future PART TWO: SHAPE AND MOMENTUM: THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE IS A CHOREOGRAPHIC PUZZLE AND A THEORY OF CHANGE What Makes a Witch a Witch Dots Dwelling in Shape and Momentum Four Case Studies: monuments, archiving, dementia and ritual changes School Stories Changing the Shape of the Audience An Ode to Relationship: the Long of It, the Beauty and Conjuring of Martha Wittman Choreographic Thinking in Times of Trouble An Ode to a Rubber Band An Ode to Aboutness Having a Mess Avoiding a Mess An Animal Proves Me Wrong PART THREE: REJECTION AND REFLECTION The Witch of Insomnia Help From Friends 27 Attempts Reflection through Generations Persistence and Falling Stories Nature of Rest and Unfinished Life of Work A Spell for Forgiveness PART FOUR: THE ATLAS OF CREATIVE TOOLS® Parados Toolbox as Documentation What's in a Recipe? Aphorisms as Tools Books for Children and Young Adults Gimmick The Students Think Theory is a Tool Thinking Grids a Favorite How Tools Travel and Why the Journey Makes Them More Flexible Differences A Scientist and a Poet Walk into an Atlas It's Like Breathing or the Tides EPILOGUE Gallery of Witches Three Spells Seeking and Fixing Things in a Middle of a Soybean Field Acknowledgements Appendix Citations.