Creative Rebirth: Jasper Goodall (Personal and Professional Development)

How psychosynthesis facilitated a creative rebirth after a declaration to never make art again.

Hosted by Jasper Goodall

Friday 25th February 2022

6.30pm – 8.30pm (GMT time)

Online via Zoom

Jasper made a successful return to art through the medium of photography following his psychosynthesis training, recognising he’d rejected a creative sub-personality.

Jasper discusses the concept of Twilight’s path on BBC Radio 3 and had his work featured on a double-page spread in The Guardian. He brings his personal journey and experience of University teaching to this workshop.

Who is it for?

The event is open to all professions, particularly those interested in psychology and the arts.  

The workshop will be useful for anyone that struggles to express their creativity or is experiencing a creative block.  

Workshop purpose:

Have you found working with your creative side challenging? Or perhaps you are experiencing a creative block? 

Trust graduate, Jasper Goodall, shares his personal experience of how psychosynthesis inspired his radical return to the creative world. The workshop aims to: 

• Find different ways to recognise and circumvent our inner critic, which can be one of the main blockages to creative confidence. 
• Develop understanding and awareness of the unconscious power of images to shape and direct us? Do images have transference and what is our countertransference?
• Learn to trust and build our creative voice through spontaneous writing and other nurturing activities. 

Who will this workshop benefit?

Professionally, by using techniques that can be applied to a wider therapeutic context. 

Personally, by nurturing your creative voice to increase your confidence in this area.    

Jasper has worked with university art students for more than a decade. His own experience has been one of refining his intuitive nature, through the lens of imagery. Through this lens, this practice, he has found a renewed awakening, a life energy that was seeking to be expressed – a kind of courage to listen inwards to the only voice that matters. 

Our approach:

Psychosynthesis applied to psychotherapy is a non-pathologising and unique approach that combines both psychology and spirituality. It is a transpersonal and holistic process that helps the individual deal with patterns of behaviours which inhibit or prevent living life in meaningful and fulfilling ways. It brings us into contact with the life journey to meaning and purpose.

There is a question around creative practice of making art, music or writing as to where it all comes from. Thoughts and images enter the mind and are made manifest by processing through a human being. One can either trust the images or let the judgmental mind get in the way. Learning to trust them is, I believe enabling the Self to speak through the artist. 

What to expect?

The workshop will include: 

• A presentation from Jasper focused on the main turning points that facilitated his creative rebirth. 
• A visual workshop, focusing on the transference and countertransference that images can ignite.  
• Followed by a short spontaneous written piece to understand the reaction to the images and work directly with the inner critic (who will undoubtedly pop up!) 

Tickets:

At the Trust we appreciate that each person has their own unique situation, so we invite you to select the price point that feels like it represents a fair contribution for attending this event.

There are three options to choose from when purchasing tickets: £25, £30, £35.

If you are a current Psychosynthesis Trust student and finances are a barrier to attending this workshop, please contact Paula at events@ptrust.org.uk

Trainer:

Jasper Goodall was a successful freelance illustrator until he became disillusioned. He began training at the Psychosynthesis Trust, deciding he would never make art again. 

Through working with the principles of Psychosynthesis he began to understand that he had rejected a creative sub-personality that he began to mourn for. 

Four years after ceasing his creative practice he began tentatively to make art once more, this time using the medium of photography.  

This new creative expression is directly linked with experiences both from the training at the Psychosynthesis Trust and from a childhood memory. The resulting work has gained recognition and led to exhibiting at the Royal Academy summer exhibition 2020 and a solo exhibition in London during the summer of 2021. 

Jasper continues to teach at the University of Brighton where he has taught generations of image-makers for over 20 years. 

www.jaspergoodall.com | Instagram @jaspergoodall