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CREATIVE ARTS, EDUCATION CONNECTION The connection between creative arts in education and psychology will be explored at two workshops facilitated by noted author and psychotherapist Natalie Rogers this month at the University of Houston. "I am honored and delighted to be invited to the University of Houston by Dr. Jerry Freiberg who has furthered the democratic educational principles of my father, Dr. Carl Rogers,” Rogers said. “Nourishing the Soul: Expressive Arts for
Educators” will start at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 19, at "This workshop is offered to help educators awaken their creative spirit and also to stimulate thought regarding their own teaching environment,” Rogers said. A two-day workshop, titled “Expressive Arts
for Psychologists and Therapists,” will be held at Founder of the Person Centered Expressive Therapy Institute in California, Rogers also will discuss the relation between inner peace and world peace at a public lecture 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 21, Farish Hall’s Room 214. Her lecture, “Person Centered Expressive Arts: A Path to Wholeness” is free to those who pre-register by emailing cindyhayes@cmcdmail.coe.uh.edu. Registration at the door is $25. “Person-centered education is about creating safe learning environments,” H. Jerome Freiberg, professor at the college of education, said. “Natalie Rogers is building on the work of her father, Carl Rogers, who pioneered the work of person centered psychotherapy.” Rogers is the author of “The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts as Healing, and Emerging Woman: A Decade of Midlife Transitions.” In nearly two decades of operation, her institute has hosted hundreds of participants from all over the world. For additional information, please call 713-743-8753. Francine Parker
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