Author's Corner
Graduates of the AIWP-Sponsored Universities

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.

Natalie Rogers, Carl Rogers' daughter

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.

Carl Rogers: A Daughter's Tribute
A remarkable CD-Rom

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Natalie's website is www.nrogers.com

Kim Chernin, Ph.D. In the words of the Author..... I want to speak to my readers. I want to say what is on my mind, raising controversial issues, turning over ambiguities, talking directly, without the intervention of publishers or publicists or pages or books. I want to be known and I want to know you.

Biography

-- excerpted from Jerilyn Fisher, Jewish American Women Writers

On May 7, 1940, as Rose Chernin went through labor, she was reading a book between contractions: On the Woman Question, by Lenin's comrade Clara Zetkin. Ushering Kim into the world with that book by her side, Rose may have hoped to inspire Communist vision and activism in the adult her baby would become; instead, she seems to have unknowingly augured her daughter's commitment to and gift for writing about women.

Born in the Bronx to two fiercely committed Marxists, Kim Chernin was exposed from the start to leftist teachings and impassioned political involvement. As a child, she marched with her mother, helped hand out Party leaflets, sang organizing songs, and overheard weekly Party meetings. Yet the Marxist teachings of Chernin's parents did not result in her later commitment to revolutionary ideologies and activism; rather, she became a poet, a mystic, and an interpreter of women's psychological experiences. These interests and capacities seem to have stemmed from the extended family circle of compelling storytellers.

For young Kim Chernin, one early source of inspiration for writing came from her shtetl- born grandmother, Perle, who created Yiddish tales for other women to use in their letters abroad. Chernin was also influenced by her storytelling father, Paul Kusnitz, who liked to recite Pushkin and delighted his daughter with daily "homespun tales." Rose Chernin, another gifted teller of tales, sometimes left Kim bored with her didactic stories "about madness, revolution, the struggle to survive..." (Crossing the Border). Yet from her mother, too, Kim learned to harness and relish the power of the ranconteur.

Click to read - Jerilyn's whole bio on Kim

Current Work

I have recently published the following books:

20th Anniversary edition of In My Mother's House with new material.
The Girl Who Went and Saw and Came Back

My correspondence, notebooks, collected papers and unpublished writings are archived at the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.

During the last several years I have worked on three manuscripts:

A Novel: If I were a Black Girl
Essays: Life's Long Learning: Lessons with Unintended Teachers
A Memoir: Kaddish for My Sister

I have decided to not publish these for the time being, but to go on writing and accumulating manuscripts. After twenty-five years of an active publishing life it seems a sane and peaceful way to proceed.

Kim's web site is: www.kimchernin.com

Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D., A.T.R., R.E.A.T.

"The voice of the creative self is our creative conscience. It keeps us on track"
- Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D., A.T.R., R.E.A.T.

Lucia Capacchione is a Registered Art Therapist, workshop leader and the best-selling author of 13 books. Her innovative methods spark and nurture creativity in all areas of life.

She originated:

• The Creative Journal Method, blending writing with drawing
• Healing through writing and drawing with the non-dominant hand
• The Visioning process of life design through collage and journaling
• Inner Child/Inner Family healing through the expressive arts

Dr. Capacchione was originally a professional artist who studied with Corita Kent at Immaculate Heart College in Hollywood, and worked for designer Charles Eames. She later became a Montessori-trained child development specialist, and was one of the first Head Start directors in the U.S.

After successful careers in both art and education, she stumbled onto the healing power of art and of journaling with her non-dominant hand while struggling with a mysterious life-threatening illness. Her full recovery without medication led to a new career as an art therapist. She received her master's in the Goddard College external degrees program and her Ph.D. through Summit University of Louisiana under Mel Suhd's mentorship.

Methods which Dr. Capacchione developed in her private practice are being used worldwide for treating addictions, trauma, and childhood abuse. Many of her books are used as texts in courses on therapy, psychology, writing, art, career development and applied creativity. Her work is being used in mental health and recovery programs, medical centers, school systems (kindergarten through college), prisons, health and healing programs, spiritual retreat centers, business, and industry. She has conducted workshops throughout the U.S., Canada, Italy, England, Australia and Mexico.

Dr. Capacchione is director of the Creative Journal Expressive Arts Certification Training for professionals. This year-long training prepares individuals to teach, counsel and coach using Dr. Capacchione's methods. This Independent work/study program has attracted professionals from a variety of career paths including counselors, teachers, health care professionals, career and life coaches, artists, educators and more.

Books & Audio Programs:

• The Creative Journal
• The Power of Your Other Hand
• The Well-Being Journal
• The Picture of Health: Healing Your Life with Art
• Lighten Up Your Body, Lighten Up Your Life
• The Creative Journal for Teens
• The Creative Journal for Children
• The Creative Journal for Parents
• Recovery of Your Inner Child
• Creating a Joyful Birth Experience
• Putting Your Talent to Work
• Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams
• Living with Feeling: The Art of Emotional Expression
• The Wisdom of Your Other Hand (5 tapes) Sounds True
• The Picture of Health (CD Well-Being Journal Meditations)
• The Sound of Feelings (CDs with Jessie Allen Cooper's music)

Lucia's website is: www.luciac.com

Grant McFetridge

Books:

• The Basic Whole Hearted Healing Manual, by Grant McFetridge and Mary Pellicer MD, 2004
• Peak States of Consciousness: Theory and Applications, Volume 1: Breakthrough Techniques for Exceptional Quality of Life, by Grant McFetridge with Jacquelyn Aldana, James Hardt and Zivord Slavinski, 2004
• Peak States of Consciousness: Theory and Applications, Volume 2: Acquiring Extraordinary Spiritual and Shamanic States, by Grant McFetridge with Wes Gietz, Scott McGee and Adam Waisel MD, 2005.
• Peak States Therapist's Manual, by Grant McFetridge et al, 2005

Phillip Ziegler, Ph.D, practiced law in the late 1960’s and left that career when he encountered the Human Potential Movement. He went back to school and earned his MA in Psychology in 1975 and was licensed in the same year as a Marriage and Family Therapist.  He has been in private practice in Oakland, CA since becoming licensed.  He was on the faculty of the Graduate Psychology Program at John F. Kennedy University and continues to teach workshops in the CEU programs at JFK and Santa Clara University. In addition to writing numerous published articles he is author of A Skeptic’s Guide to the 12 Steps: What to Do When You Don’t Believe, published in 1991 by Hazelden and co-author, with his wife Tobey Hiller, of Recreating Partnership, A Solution-Oriented, Collaborative Approach to Couples Therapy, published in 2001 by WW Norton.

A Skeptic’s Guide to the 12 Steps has been described as “an intensely personal intellectual and spiritual journey through the 12 Steps.”  Kim Chernin said of the book, “An especially courageous undertaking . . . . My own skepticism about the Twelve Step process has been radically altered by [Phillip Z’s] convincing demonstration of its deep spiritual core.”  Can be ordered from Hazelden.com, Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com.

Recreating Partnership is a book for psychotherapists, counselors, marital therapists, ministers and others who work with couples to help them turn around troubled marriages and build enduring relationships. Unlike many other approaches to couples therapy, the authors demonstrate how they go about helping couples revitalize what they call the couple’s “Good Story” narrative and to reduce the influence of each partner’s “Bad Story” narrative.  Theirs is a strength based, solution focused approach that has proven effective with even the most challenging relationship problems.  Dr. Pepper Schwartz, Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Washington and author of Love between Equals said of this book, “The authors of this beautifully written book give invaluable insights into what couples need to turn their relationships around during therapy . . . . These gifted therapists give us step-by-step techniques to help couples reframe their conversations and perceptions of who they are together.  This is one of the clearest and most creative books I have ever read on couples therapy.”

Phillip's books can be ordered from Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.  Also see the authors’ webpage for more information on the book: http://home.igc.org/~ziegler/

Linda Joy Myers, Ph. D.

Author of Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story & Don't Call Me Mother
www.memoriesandmemoirs.com
Find the Storyteller in you--make magic with words!
New blog: www.lindajoymyers.typepad.com

Books/Stories:

• Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story
• Don't Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment
• The Music Man
• Who Am I, Anyway?
  

Orders and Inquiries:

Linda Joy Myers
San Francisco Bay Area
(510) 524-3898
writeforlife@earthlink.net