With decades of experience as an improvising musician, composer, lyricist, performer, educator, and more, Dr. Zane Zalis will share stories/experiences, insights, lessons, practices, and ideas that have informed and shaped his artistic and pedagogical journey. The entangled texture of his work, weaving emotion, feeling, reason, thinking, motivation and skill development as central to human understanding of self and others, renders the arts and values creativity/improvisation as indispensable to broad and deep human development.