RJ Hixson

This is our final Tharp’s Thoughts newsletter – a kind of end. Rather than being the destination, however, we have arrived at a midpoint. Before we consider your journey ahead, let’s make a quick assessment of where we are.  What a long, wonderful, rich, and transformative journey we have had with Dr. Van Keith Tharp as a guide! How best do we make a brief assessment of where we are and how far we have come? How about in two ways that Van would probably appreciate: with a model and […]

As we approach the closing of the Van Tharp Institute (VTI), we will focus the last few newsletters on Van and his contributions. This is the first in the series. We will continue to publish this newsletter until our last issue on November 15th. Models, Genius, and Bliss Van liked to call himself a modeler, to describe what he did as building useful models. He was a genius at that. What does a modeler do? You might think of the activities of modeling as analyzing: all of contexts, beliefs, mental