Psychosynthesis and Creativity

Psychosynthesis and Creativity

This webinar will provide practical ways to explore the links between creative work and psychosynthesis. Delegates will have a chance to practice a few brief creative exercises that can be used in meditation and in daily life, at work or at home, to facilitate and strengthen personal and organizational transitions. The seminar will provide an initial conceptual summary of the use of creativity in psychosynthesis, and will then move on to a more experiential approach that will allow delegates to put theory into practice. 

Target Audience: Target audience is psychosynthesis coaches and therapists who want to use creative work in their practice.The seminar will be of interest to creative individuals who want to push their creative boundaries by exploring the connection between creativity and psychosynthesis.

The conceptual summary will be based on the Roberto Assagioli’s work and modern neuroscience, and will last about 15 minutes with 15 minutes for discussion. 

The webinar will then move on to three exercises involving 1) creating a drama of the sub- personalities, 2) the use of creative visualization to walk around a labyrinth and 3) building a creative map that can be used to explore transitions. Each of these will take around ½ an hour. 

The seminar will last for 2-2.5 hours in total.    

Learning Objectives - Attendees will:

• •Understand the meaning and value of creativity in a psychosynthesis context through Roberto Assagioli’s writings on creativity in the arts, sciences and technical work, and recent findings from modern neuroscience. Discuss and brainstorm what creativity means for your own psychosynthesis goals.
• •Explore how sub-personalities can be used to create a “drama of the self” that can be pieced together in an evolving narrative for purposes such as personal transition, career change and conflict resolution. Depending on numbers attending this may be done individually or in teams.
• •Engage with the ancient symbol of the labyrinth in a creative visualisation that can help you and your clients to identify more fully with their authentic inner Self, and explore how this can deepen one’s sense of purpose and meaning. Discover your inner radiance through walking the labyrinth and reaching its still center.
• •Create and then explore a map of past, present and future lands that allows you to envision a personal transition or desired transformation. Understand how one’s memories of the past and memories of the future both affect how you approach the transition. Use the created map as a physical prop to catalyse your energy and to overcome barriers.

Presenter: Peter Stewart is a psychosynthesis coach and aspiring ceramicist who worked for most of his career as a technical journalist with interludes as a creative writer. He is interested in how creativity and psychosynthesis can be used to facilitate and catalyse sustainable transitions in individuals, organisations and even societal transitions. 

Biography: Peter discovered Roberto Assagioli’s The Act of Will in a second-hand book store in his home town of Lewes, England in 2013, and he has been interested in psychosynthesis ever since. He trained as a psychosynthesis leadership coach in 2017 on the PGCPLC certificate program run by the Institute of Psychosynthesis in north London, with the University of Middlesex. He is an aspiring potter, having trained with Ray Maw, who runs the Shehy Mountain Centre in Ireland. Peter runs his own creative coaching practice Coachcreates whose website is https://coachcreates.com and he runs a number of other websites related to his creative interests, including the psychosynthesis community website https://psychosynthesis.community. For the last decade he has been on the editorial board of the Frogmore Press and has run its sister publication Morphrog, an online poetry journal https://morphrog.com. Peter worked for many years as a journalist, manager and director in organisations such as Reuters, Standard & Poor’s and Interfax, and he is a director of the British Institute of Energy Economics. 

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Deadline to register is June 15, 2021.  You will receive Zoom instructions on June 16, 2021.  Please make sure to check your email on the 16th.