Category: About Human Art

FREE Webinar! The Science, The Study, The Art

Posted on September 11, 2018May 30, 2023 by Brook Thornley

At Human Art, when we meet someone new we can determine their personality within seconds of them walking through the door. The concept of a “Harmony” is the principle in which we can determine what personality traits they have. We can do that because each harmony has elements that cluster, where one is so are the others—we can count on that fact. We use four elements: color, line, sound and movement. The colors that you have an affinity to, the lines in your bone structure, your sound when you speak and also non-verbal sounds, and your movement-how you walk, how you sway your arms when you walk, etc.

When asked, most people can recognize different lines in bone structure. They at least understand the concept. A lot of people can even see the sound and movement reasonably in others when looking for it. The element that we get the most questions on is how we use color. We want to explain that to you. For that reason, we are hosting a free webinar to explain about color.

We will be giving you insights into the business of Human Art and how we use color. We are going to focus on you that night and how that can benefit you.

Your Homework

This week while we are preparing for the webinar, your job is to notice how many times a day you are required to pick a color you like. Observe what is going on at the time and who is asking you and for what purposes. It could be someone asking you your favorite color (that's a classic). Maybe it’s for a gift someone wants to give you, so they ask you to pick a color. Maybe it’s a business owner being asked to pick a color for a business card or paint for a new office. Maybe it’s a mom trying to motivate a child. A hairdresser trying to design a new look. A designer creating something just for you…

Keep track on your phone or jot it down on paper and let’s talk about it on Monday. Can’t wait to see you then!

Remember, everyone is a masterpiece.

Brook

Organize Yourself-Attract, Connect, Prosper

Posted on June 25, 2018May 30, 2023 by Brook Thornley

At Human Art: The Original Personality Test we get a lot of requests daily. They range from someone just needing to know something about their design (for example, “is this article my design?”), or something about their thought process, to someone ordering a class, a family reunion or a major corporate event. Needless to say, we are busy and we love it. We have three categories we put our requests or jobs under: Attract, Connect, and Prosper.

Attract is for personal growth. Knowing your design or authenticity and anything that can aid in discovering that. This is where individual consultations come in. It really has to do with your relationship with yourself.

Connect is, once you know yourself, how to better connect with others from that place of authenticity. This is a powerful category because it launches you into your life and connecting in a healthy way with others.

Prosper is how do you put that to use to find and bring more success in your life and in your everyday tasks. I think of this as working smarter, not harder, at what you do.

This is a great way to organize our message when we are serving our clients, but it is not JUST a great way for us to organize Human Art. It could be an amazing tool for YOU to organize each day. Every morning think to yourself: “Attract, Connect, Prosper.”

First, you want to do what you can to feel Attractive in your authenticity. My parents used to teach us to “get up and take whatever time you need to feel attractive in your authenticity.” It is an expression to the world of who you are. So whether it be a pair of jeans you love to show your casualness, or a whimsical pony tail to show your lightness, or even a stark beautiful suit to show your authority or simply a sweater or cologne to express your refinement, take that time. Look in the mirror a final time with approval for yourself and then turn and forget yourselves and go serve.

This leads me to Connect. The important part of connecting is two-fold. One, stay in your authenticity, but Two, always celebrate the differences of the person you are connecting with. Bask in the opposite energy that seems to live in you and those you connect with. When done in a positive way without labels it leads to amazing amounts of synergy. Instead of using the difference as a reason to lose credibility in those you deal with, us it as a starting point of negotiation. You will find great solutions in negotiating that way.

Once you can negotiate in that form it leads you right into more opportunities to Prosper. Prosper means finding your strengths authentically and using those in every task you have on your list, and doing them in your way. I find it works every time.

For example, the task might be to come up with a great new solution to a problem. A Saturated person will always find success when they deem their version of quality on the task and then go to work in a concomitant way with that one most important thing. A Whitened person will always keep in mind how everyone is interacting to find optimal social success. A party is truly a party when everyone is having a good time and they won’t settle until they do. A Grayed person is brilliant in the details. Sometimes after an event I ask to just look at their lists that they made during the planning stages. It is a beautiful thing to see the number of details they cover and the meticulous nature in which they did. It is really like viewing a piece of art. Lastly, a Blackened person will just “get ‘r done.” It’s as if they are moving forward before the orders are even finished being put in. They just start rolling. They are like small human versions of great big bulldozers and trackers and trucks and fleets…I could go on. You get the point. When a Blackened person walks on the job site you know things are going to get done. I appreciate that so much in a task. It brings stability to an event.

So wherever you are stop and think: “Attract, Connect, Prosper” and move forward in that way each day.

And remember, everyone is a masterpiece.

-Brook

Attract Connect Prosper

In Memory of Donna-Thank You

Posted on June 19, 2018May 30, 2023 by Brook Thornley

I wish I had the perfect words to properly express my feelings after seeing all of the care and concern that was shown with the passing of my mother Donna. Appreciation, love, awe for just how good people really are just don’t seem to hit right on the enormous gratitude that I feel. I read every word of the comments posted throughout the week. I actually read them several times through. With each of your posts came an attached memory or memories. It seemed to give me a little more strength every time I read them.

The sheer goodness of humans was implanted in the literally thousands of comments collectively over the week. One thing that stood out to me is how our tag line “everyone is a masterpiece” would be illuminated in every comment.” I can’t quite explain it because it’s not like it was directly said each time but I loved the comments where with all of the love and support that was sent was also a gentle little “I learned this about myself.” That was so important to me and what this life-long journey in my family has been about. It was a dedication of sorts not only to Donna but the work and program that still lives on even with her passing.

Thank you for that. I could wake up every morning seeing a post of a word or statement that illuminates your uniqueness. So many good people have asked “what can I do, what can I do for your family. In my view I would have to say do that same thing everyday. Wake up and say, “I know this about me, and I love that about myself.”

I thank you once again for the love and caring. I love and respect who you are.

Everyone truly is a masterpiece.

Brook

Forward

Posted on May 29, 2018May 30, 2023 by Brook Thornley

Yes, I spelled “foreword” in my book forward.

Let me explain.

For starters I concede that the appropriate spelling is "foreword" when used in a book. If you Google "how to spell foreword for a book” it tells you that many people misspell foreword. It is before the word and is usually written by someone other than the author.

Here are my thoughts on why we did it differently:

1. When we wrote the book we really saw it more as a manual. One for the individual to navigate life in their own attractiveness. A “how-to” of sorts; but the “how-to” is how to be me in this big world where the individual is the author of it. Therefore the forward is my thoughts to the author of life "you."

2. I really do want you to move forward, and my hope is that learning about your authentic self will move you forward. When Rod and I meet with people there are a large number of them that dispute how beautiful I see them; they are stuck because they just can’t quite see it for themselves. Our message—whether you read it in our book, view it on the website, or attend a live class—is still the same. Everyone is a masterpiece and it is time to move forward in that.

So read it again (the text is below). This is truly how I see the world. Put yourself in that lane and move forward in your authentic way.

Everyone is a masterpiece.

Brook

Human Art: Understanding Your Own Personal Design by Brook and Rod Thornley, “Forward”, pg. 7

“As I walk through a museum of fine art, I enter each room anticipating the beauty I know I’ll encounter there. I feel a tingle of excitement. Which piece of art will I love? Which will I appreciate? Will I see some that I won’t understand? As I am strolling by each piece, I realize that the great thing about art is that it’s a personal experience. People choose the pieces that speak to them on an emotional level. I wonder what piece, in each room I enter, will speak to me. When I find it, I know the lines and color of the piece will communicate what I need emotionally. My response will resonate deep inside me.

For some reason we have forgotten to look at each human being in this same way. People are masterpieces that we come upon or experience in life as if we are entering their space in a museum. They touch us on an emotional level. The lines and colors in their bodies—their unique compositions—communicate to us. Have we forgotten to look at them with the same open eyes that we have when we pass through the doors of an art museum? Do we feel the anticipation of finding that connection deep inside in response to each person’s own beauty? Or have we learned in some way to pass by and discount them in a search for that ultimate personification of “beauty”—as if all humans were pieces in an exhibit, but only one truly great piece of art existed? We need to open our eyes to see the art and beauty in every human being. We are each truly unique, a masterpiece. We are all imprints of many frequencies, and we leave that emotional imprint of our beauty wherever we go. No one will ever experience anything just like us again.

When I see someone new, perhaps I’ll love and appreciate her beauty. Or maybe I just won’t understand it. I am not alone. Most of us don’t understand the beauty we find in others. We don’t recognize the masterpieces we encounter each day. We lack the information, skills or rules to interpret them. We don’t know their “equations.” Just as solving math or chemistry problems is impossible without understanding the rules, in art—especially Human Art—we as a society have reached a point of discounting what we can’t comprehend merely because we lack the tools and rules to do so.

I love walking through the “exhibit” of life! I relish observing this beautiful world and these intriguing pieces of art—humans—that I encounter daily. Using the “rules,” or the science of color and line, I am able to grasp people’s beauty in a way that extends far beyond the physical surface. My experience of your beauty starts the moment I first get a glimpse of you. Your communication, the lines in your nose, the way you walk, the way you talk, the way you process your information, are all pieces of the equation, and I start summing them up, emotionally. Without fail, each time I say, “Yes, this is the piece for me!” You touch me at that level because, unlike a painting or a piece of pottery, you are alive, and you use your “equation”—your beauty, talents and strengths—to act and interact with me. I’ve yet to find the sculpture that can do that. Understanding the right rules and using the right tools to unlock the mystery of human composition has enabled me to stand back in reverential, open-mouthed awe as I contemplate the greatest beauty of all: you.”

Personality Typing Dilemma and How Human Art is Different

Posted on May 11, 2015May 30, 2023 by Brook Thornley

I was talking to a friend awhile back about a personality test she took at work. She told me it didn’t mean that much to her because it was relatively easy to pick the items which supported her outward image as a creative, competent, strong leader in the organization. I told her that I was working on some personality typing with the Human Art theory and she said, “You can have my test if you want,” and tossed it to me.

This experience got me thinking about the dilemma we face when we are asked to take a personality test online or at work. We are all eager to be validated for who we know we are, but it can be scary, at times, to answer questions which may present a side of ourselves which has been disapproved of in the past. We often feel the pressure to mirror what others like about us or what our work culture values.

This led me to think about what I like about the Human Art approach to understanding personality. I remember 25 years ago when Brook’s mother, Donna, was doing my personality reading. At first, I was skeptical because she started holding colors up to my face. It caught my attention when she held up a new growth green color to may face. I already loved the color but then she started to interpret it for me. She said it was like the color of grass under a rock that is determined to get over or around the rock and just doesn’t give up. This trait of perseverance was something that rang true to me and I liked about myself. It was true for me even though not many people had noticed it in me. It lifted me and gave me a little bit of confidence that day. It was powerful to me that someone could bring that forth even though they didn’t really know my history. It became an anchoring point for me to hold as a truth about my personality.

Since that time, I have been able to witness and participate in the Human Art personality discovery process with others. What I enjoy most is that the process does not require the recipient to say anything. When the colors are held up to your face, it is like perfect pitch in music. When your truth is interpreted for you in a strengths based environment, it is life changing.

Being “unique” is no longer a cliché because we can measure your authentic self and reveal the harmonies in nature that you most relate to. For example, I am Grayed and Blackened. With that combination my personality communicates a sensitive, no-nonsense kind of guy. I care about others feelings and want to protect, but at some point things need to get done.

After going through the process, many of our clients will say, “I will never apologize for being me again.” One of my colleagues who attended a workshop told me, “I thought I always wanted to be Blackened in high school but now I know that I am Saturated, and I can see my strengths more clearly.”

Human Art personality assessment is different from others because it helps us to stop comparing ourselves to others. It reveals how we can have opposing traits at the same time, such as being both introverted and extroverted, and in what order they manifest themselves. In relationship compatibility Human Art can help you to know how opposites attract rather than merely matching you on various items of compatibility.

It is fun to discover how you fit into the broader scheme of nature and how you relate to what is true in design. That is what Human Art can do for you.

~Rod

(Licensed Clinical Social Worker [LCSW])