The Creative Psyche and Arts-Based Research Conference
London
Organization: London Arts-Based Research Centre
The Creative Psyche and Arts-Based Research Conference
June 14-15, 2025
Where: Association of Jungian Analysts Centre, London
and online
Proposal Deadline: April 30, 2025
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Susan Rowland
https://labrc.co.uk/2025/03/02/the-creative-psyche/
Registration Fees for both presenters and attendees:
100 GBP (online participation)
180 GBP (in-person participation)
Prices exclude Eventbrite fees
Call for Papers:
“… art has forms with ancient origins that enact historically inflected ways of knowing and being.”
from Susan Rowland, Jungian Arts-Based Research and the Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico (p. 24)
How do we use art as a means for generating knowledge, and vice versa? What does art connect the psyche to? The London Arts-Based Research Centre is excited to announce the upcoming conference, “The Creative Psyche and Arts-Based Research”, to be held on June 14-15 at the Association of Jungian Analysts Centre in Camden, London (an online participation option will also be available). The conference will explore the intersections between creativity, the psyche, and arts-based research, as we seek to bring together diverse ideas, artefacts, and methods that show this connection. The psyche, with its creative use of both conscious and unconscious content, is a marvellous multi-dimensional entity, and we aim to look at the many ways and tools we can harness for both knowledge-making and the production of different types of art (visual, literary, musical, etc.).
We welcome proposals from creatives, academics, researchers, and practitioners from all over the world, whose work engages with the relationship between creativity and mental processes.
We invite proposals for 15-minute presentations that engage with (but are not limited to) the following topics:
The role of creativity in mental health and wellbeing
Active imagination
Arts-based research methods for exploring mental health issues
Dreamwork
Artography
Art as a tool for individuation and/alchemy
Poetry therapy
Jungian arts-based research
Poetic inquiry
Archetypal reflections in creative expression
Art therapy
The role of dreams in writing poetry
Modernist and post-modernist ideas connecting the psyche with art
Visionary art
Surrealist approaches to art
Motivational psychology for creative writers
Creativity and self-expression in mental health recovery
Hypnotherapy in creative processes
Myth as a healing method
Approaches for transdisciplinarity
Creativity and mental health stigma reduction
The impact of mental illness on artistic expression and practice
The relationship between mental health and creative blocks
The potential of the arts for promoting mental health awareness and advocacy
Arts-based research methods for exploring creativity
The relationship between creativity and mental health
The role of creativity in education and pedagogy
Arts-based research and social justice
The impact of technology on creativity and artistic practice
Creative entrepreneurship
The intersection of creativity and spirituality
The role of creativity in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research
Positive psychology through artmaking
We welcome 250-word proposals from creatives, researchers, and practitioners from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, including visual arts, creative writing, music, dance, drama, psychology, sociology, anthropology, education, and psychiatry.
Kindly fill out the abstract form and send it to the conference organizers at conferences@labrc.co.uk by May 12. The full programme of the conference will be ready after the presenters are selected.
We look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you at the Psychreative Conference in June!
https://labrc.co.uk/2025/03/02/the-creative-psyche/
Roula Maria Dib
