Recent interview with Natalie

Dr. Natalie Rogers, Ph.D., R.E.A.T. Natalie Rogers, author of The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts As Healing, and Emerging Woman: A Decade of Midlife Transitions, is a pioneer in expressive arts therapy, leading trainings in Europe, Russia, Latin America, Japan, and the U.S. Dr. Rogers trained and practiced as a psychotherapist. Natalie founded the Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy Institute and its parent organization, Resources for Creativity and Consciousness, in 1984, where she has participated as teacher, trainer, workshop facilitator, consultant, and board member from that time and will continue until its closing in 2005. She is a full professor (adjunct) at the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School. She is an artist, mother, and grandmother. I believe that creativity is like freedom, once you taste it, you can’t do without it. It is a transformative and healing process.

RESUME FOUNDER of the Resources for Creativity and Consciousness and the Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute In 1984, Dr. Rogers founded the Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute (PCETI) and developed a 400 hour training program in which professionals (therapists, artists, educators, and health professionals,) gained skills in the person-centered approach, and the expressive arts. In the 19 years of its operation, there were over 1,000 participants from Europe, Japan, Latin America, Canada, and the U.S. FACILITATOR/WORKSHOPS Person-Centered Approach Workshops: Focusing on cross-cultural communications, personal growth, self-empowerment, and social change. Natalie initiated with her father, Dr. Carl Rogers, and was on the staff of seven two week residential programs in the United States, Europe, and Japan. They co-led small groups and large (150). l975-l980 Cross Cultural Workshops: Facilitation of communication between cultural groups in intensive residential workshops in Europe using non-verbal and verbal methods. Belgium, France, Switzerland, Sweden, England, Germany, and Italy. l975–l982 Professional Women’s’ Groups: Taking a look at self-image and role expectations from social as well as a psychological view. Natalie led these in the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, Chile, Argentina and Germany and Greece. Men/Women: Transcending Sex Role: Natalie co-led these groups in Mexico, Columbia, and the U.S. Discovering the Creative Connection: combining movement, art, writing, sound, and guided visualization to facilitate personal growth, creativity and higher states of consciousness. Held in California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, England, Germany, Norway, Belgium, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Estonia, and Greece. PSYCHOTHERAPIST As a licensed psychologist, in Massachusetts, (#910) Dr. Rogers worked with disturbed children, parents’ groups, and in-patients, at: Children’s Hospital, Boston, Lesley College Schools for Children, Cambridge, The College Mental Health Center, Brookline, and The North Shore Family Institute. In Honolulu, Hawaii, she was a therapist at the University Counseling Center. From l974 to 1990, she was in private practice in California. TRAINER/TEACHER Developed training programs for professionals in: Client-Centered Therapy Training for Women Counselors of Women Person-Centered Expressive Therapy. Teaching positions: Adjunct faculty teaching person-centered expressive art therapy at: Saybrook Graduate School, CA (current position) The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Menlo Park, CA The California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA The Institute of Imaginal Studies, Petaluma, CA AUTHOR (see the web page entitled Publications) SPEAKER TOPICS The Creative Process: Nourishing the Soul The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts as Healing (slide talk) Creativity as a Path To Peace (slide /talk) Women, Power & the Future LICENSES, CERTIFICATION & TEACHING CREDENTIALS Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (International Expressive Arts Therapy Assn.) 1998 to present Psychologist License #910 (Massachusetts) 1973 to 1996 Instructor of Psychology Credential, California Community Colleges #189260, April 24, 1979, Valid for Life Board of Behavioral Sciences: Continuing Education Provider number: PCE 1728 AWARD A Lifetime Achievement Award, “The Shining Star” given by the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, October 10, 1998 for being “a pioneer in the field of integrative arts therapy, education and consultation”.