Synopsis
In The Creative Connection for Groups Dr. Natalie Rogers brings us a practical theoretical, and spiritual joining of the expressive arts and the person-centered approach for groups. Specific guidelines and explorations merge the values, purposes, and methods of both fields. Facilitators learn how to apply this work in a wide variety of situations. The powerful images illustrate case material and the extraordinary effects of this profound group process. Ultimately, this book is about courage, creative expression, compassion, cooperation, and raising the collective consciousness to heal the planet. No small order. Yet the dynamic, humanistic process of person-centered expressive arts fosters in individuals and groups the ability to achieve this goal as they become authentic, self-actualized, and empowered. The forceful element of creative expression brings individuals personally and collectively into their strength, honing the ability to envision a brighter future and act across political or antagonistic boundaries to a more peaceful, all-inclusive way of being
About the Author
Natalie Rogers, Ph.D., REAT, is the groundbreaking originator of the Creative Connection ®, a transformational person-centered expressive arts therapeutic process that is embraced by psychotherapists, teachers, healers, leaders and diverse groups around the world. Author of The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts as Healing (1993) and Emerging Woman: A Decade of Midlife Transitions (1980), Natalie s mission for personal and planetary healing has led her to cross-cultural work in Europe, Russia, Latin America, Japan, South Korea and Israel, where she has lectured and facilitated groups seeking greater harmony and individual growth. Her work integrates the values, methods and core conditions of her father, Carl Rogers, who developed the person-centered therapeutic approach, and her passion for expressive arts and creativity. She helped found the International Expressive Art Therapy Association (IEATA) and was awarded its first Lifetime Achievement Award. She also founded and was senior faculty at the Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute, Santa Rosa, California,(1984-2004). Presently she is a Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook University, San Francisco. She and her co-faculty members have assisted graduates of these certificate programs in creating trainings in Argentina, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.
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