Dan Windisch is an author who creates multi-genre books combining his 70 years of life experiences, photography, science fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. He is a retired emeritus professor of Psychology and Counseling, a grateful grandfather and human being, an author, a husband, a photographer, and a poet. “Dr. Dan” has many sides.
The photographer poet and published author side. Dr. Dan’s “poetry minute of fame” came when his poem “Border Times and Places” was read on the BBC. The BBC reading of his poem is available at https://beautyshared.org/dan-favorite-poems-border-times-as-read-on-the-bbc/ Dr. Windisch also has a website he’d love to have you visit, Beautyshared.org. Many of his photos and poems and writing are there for you to enjoy. He has also tied photography and poetry together in two chapbooks,Yosemite Photos and Poems (available now only from the author drdanwindisch@gmail.com), and Western Washington University and Chuckanut Drive (available on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/western-washington-university/id624104522?mt=11 ) His most recent book, Alpha Martin and Omega Steed: Science Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Paradox, Photography and Poetry Combined is available from amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Alpha-Martin-Omega-Steed-Photography/dp/1790173434/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1550164210&sr=8-1&keywords=Dan+Windisch
The "Dr. Windisch" professor side. Throughout all of his 30+ years of college teaching Dan taught appreciation of beauty (in nature and others), photography, listening skills, compassion (for self and others) and the importance of service to others and the world. He also emphasized how essential self-care is for those in the helping professions. Early in his teaching career Dan taught college level courses to sailors on US Navy deployed ships. Dan then taught undergraduate and graduate level Psychology, Sociology, and Counseling classes for 29 years and earned the rank of full professor. Upon retirement from full-time teaching he was awarded "emeritus professor" status by Saint Martin’s University for the quality of his teaching and his local, state, and world service. Dr. Windisch is the only Faculty member from the College of Education to have ever received this honor. Most recently, during 2017-2018, Dr. Windisch taught "Art and Psychology” as a visiting professor at The Evergreen State College.
The Dr. Windisch service side. On the state level, Dr. Windisch served two terms as President of the Washington Counseling Association. On the national level Dan served as a faculty leader on week-long service trips with students for 7 years. The service trips went to New York, Washington D.C., Cincinnati, and Browning Montana. The service included working with Habitat for Humanity, the Franciscan Sisters of Charity, and a Blackfeet middle school in Browning Montana. On the international level, Dr. Windisch was awarded a Fulbright Specialist Grant and taught Western Positive Psychology and Counseling Approaches in Tanzania for 2 summer from 2014-2015.
The Dan human side. We all suffer, have joy, and examine our lives. Dan ties together in his writing what he has learned from his own life, and from what he has learned about the human condition, and its potential, from over 35 years of teaching psychology and counseling. He doesn’t pretend to have all the answers. He is not a guru. But Dan does bring to the table ideas and approaches that can increase the joy, gratitude, appreciation of beauty, and choices, that can improve people’s lives.
The Silly Papa Dan grandpa side. As you can see from the picture, "Papa Dan" Windisch is a very happy, and very grateful, grandpa. This picture is of the amazing Miss Dallas. She, like all 10 of our grandchildren, melts his heart through all their growing stages. They add so much to his life and to Susan, his wonderful wife!
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