Creativity as Rejuvenation for Everyone with Susan Rowland

Sunday, October 20 from 1:30 - 4:30 pm

(This program will be recorded and sent to registrants)

Jungian arts-based research is doing therapy with the world in a way that is open to everyone, artist or non-artist in any genre, and can be done for no cost. It is not art psychotherapy, which is an honorable profession with its own rationale and training. Rather, JABR combines the Jungian cosmos, alchemy, and the arts-based research developed in the academy since the 1990s. It provides a new paradigm for research that validates what is special about Jungian creativity, the synchronicities, archetypal patterns, psychic spontaneity, and the epistemology of the image as autonomous and generative.

Put another way, JABR is doing creativity as being and knowing. The workshop will introduce JABR in four modes of: paradigm, preparation, process and projection. Participants are encouraged to arrive with an artwork or image of an artwork…