Carrie Reuning-Hummel, my Suzuki teacher mentor, shared how greatly she was influenced by Kay Snow-Davis’ book Point of Power: A Relationship with Your Soul.
Of course, wanting to understand Carrie’s perspective as deeply as possible, I checked out the book from our library and dove in.
About the Theory
Kay Snow-Davis argues that every person contains natural abilities and creativity — and that ability and creativity wants to be expressed. There are, however, different modalities of those expressions. Not every person will express their talent in the same way as someone else. And when a person to attempts to express their ability and creativity in a way that is against their nature, their “self-esteem is diminished, health is compromised, and relationships lack trust and depth.”
Snow-Davis has identified four points of power. These points of power are the gateways of personal ability and creativity to naturally enter the world.
Knowing one’s specific point of power enables one to determine the areas in their life where they are mentally forcing themselves to live unnaturally and engage in diminishing behaviors and actions.
Furthermore, identifying a student’s point of power can be an indispensable resource for encouraging their natural creativity and ability. I think this is why Carrie loves Snow-Davis’ work.
Four Points
In her book Snow-Davis uses the tree as an analogy to describe the four points of power to readers. There are Roots, Trunks, Branches and Leaves. Each modality has certain needs and characteristics which can be used to identify the power point and then consciously shape an environment to suit that power point.
