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Jack S. Weller, Rudolph Schaeffer
Professor of Arts and Creativity and founding
director of the Expressive Arts program
at the Institute, received his B.A. in Psychology
and M.A. in Philosophy from the University
of California (1968), specializing in aesthetics
and East-West studies. His postgraduate
work at the University of California, Berkeley
and the San Francisco Zen Center, focused
on Buddhist art and Buddhist studies; he
has also been trained in the healing, therapeutic
aspects of the arts.
For ten years Jack was the founding director
of the Arts and Consciousness graduate program
at JFK University. His work spans philosophy,
mysticism, meditation, aesthetics, sacred
and transformative arts, creativity studies,
and expressive arts therapy. He is a founding
co-chair of the International Expressive
Arts Therapy Association.
Expressive
Arts Therapy Program
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