personal development artist with PhD in psychology of emotions, Cambridge University Press author

The Dialogical Self (Hermans, 2000), understood as a landscape of the mind as a spatial phenomenon, is a very relevant model which helps to work both with emotions, positions and background awareness. Working with composition method, I try to bring together wisdom derived from mystical traditions (Deikman, 1982) and science in order to stimulate the development of a person.

Using abstract art and compositions of abstract elements in coaching and training, I invite people to move to the nonverbal level of experience, which touches the unconscious. Abstract art helps to go beyond existing patterns of thoughts, and to come back to the world of senses. In this way one is more present and in contact with ongoing stream of feelings.

The world becomes richer when we can feel freedom from the things we know and become open for the freshness and novelty of the next moment. It was already beautifully expressed by Krishnamurti in his book  "Freedom from knowledge", and also in work by Suzuki about the beginners mind. I think that abstract art can help us to create this openness which is so important for being in contact with feelings and the richness of experience.

I am also inspired by the work of Mark Rothko, who invites me to move into a stream of pure sensual perception and emotion felt in a silence without words. I also follow the idea of Kandinsky, who told that moving deeply into yourself, into your inner need, makes you discover the universal.

I wish to inspire people to find their own authentic and meaningful directions in life and work, discover their unique capacities and encourage my clients to be who they are instead of trying to be who they are not. I aim to bring people closer to the sources of their deep inspirations and  deep levels in themselves.

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