JANE BACON

I am an analyst with the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists and registered as a Jungian Analyst with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and the International Association for Analytical Psychology. I am also on the Faculty of the Circles of Four programme of preparation for teachers of the Discipline of Authentic Movement and a certified Focusing Practitioner certified by the Focusing Institute, USA. Having worked in Higher Education for over 20 years first as a lecturer of dance and performance and later as a Professor of Dance, I have a long term interest and commitment to the role of creativity in the healing process. My work now is focused on developing knowledge and practice of the ways in which thinking and acting with imagination can help heal our deepest wounds and enliven our lives. This process calls us to explore how we feel in the here and now in relation to what has happened in the past. There is research (Gendlin, 1978) that suggests that people who..