The Creative Connection for Groups: Person-Centered Expressive Arts for Healing and Social Change

Natalie Rogers, Ph.D., REAT, (1928-2015) was 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. Her personal mission was to facilitate personal and planetary healing by incorporating the expressive arts in cross-cultural work.

Natalie is the author of several books and many journal articles: The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts as Healing, The Creative Connection for Groups: Person-Centered Expressive Arts for Healing and Social Change and Emerging Woman: A Decade of Midlife Transitions.

With her daughter Frances Fuchs, Natalie founded the Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute in Santa Rosa, CA where she trained practitioners in Person-Centered Expressive Arts for over 20 years. She has taught at the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, the Institute of Imaginal Studies, and JFK University.

Natalie was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Expressive Therapy Association. (IEATA) Presently she is a Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School where she offers this Expressive Arts Certificate program. She is an artist, mother, and grandmother.

Natalie trained person-centered expressive arts practitioners from across the globe and facilitated trainings onsite in England, Italy, Russia, Israel, and other international locations.