Creating Your Life

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Explore how the arts and psychology work together to help us create well and whole lives.
What do the humanities and the wider psychoanalytic traditions have to teach us about the everyday, practical challenges of being human? How can the expressive arts help us journey inward and bring forward inner guidance that we may otherwise miss? In what ways can the arts help us deeply engage our curiosity, imagination, and innovation to create a more balanced and meaningful life?
You do not need to see yourself as creative to benefit from our Creating Your Life programs.
You may find that you have far more insights and innovative ideas for improving your life than you previously imagined.
Creating Your Life programs are aimed at increasing self-awareness, self-connection, emotional awareness and expression, stress reduction, decision-making and discernment, social awareness and connection, and living with meaning and purpose.
These objectives can be realized via practical application of various psychoanalytic traditions through the practice of writing and story-telling, film and book studies, performance and play, active imagination, visual arts, and by addressing challenges to improve daily life by applying the creative process; identify, imagine, analyze, plan, test, improve, reflect, and refine.
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Currently Scheduled Events
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Fragmented Faces: Self-Portrait Collage and the Art of Hannah Höch (In-Person)
September 06, 2025September 06, 2025Bridget Fernandes | Saturday, Sep 6 | 9:30a - 1p CT | 15 Max Attendees | Explore identity, creativity, and social critique by creating self-portrait collages inspired by Hannah Höch’s photomontage techniques, while engaging in discussion and reflection on her work and activism.
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The Art of Deep Listening - The Clarity Process (Hybrid)
September 10, 2025September 10, 2025Mary Anne Casey | Wednesday, Sep 10 | 6 - 8p | 25 max attendees | Learn how listening to ourselves and others through a structured process can access both our painful feelings and our joyful triumphs to honor and allow healing.
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FULL: Women Writing Through Transitions (In-Person)
September 11, 2025October 02, 2025Joyce Boatright | Four Thursdays, Sep 11 - Oct 2 | 5:15 - 7:15p CT | 12 max attendees | Navigate major life transitions with a 4-week guided writing workshop designed to help you process change, gain insight, and transform challenges into wisdom in an emotionally healthy way.
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Tiny Felt Vessels (In-Person)
September 12, 2025September 12, 2025Gika Rector | Friday, Sep 12 | 12:30 - 4p CT | 12 Max Attendees | Create beautiful, functional felt bowls or vessels from dyed merino wool using fun, hands-on felting techniques that require no prior experience.
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Fractured Fairy Tales: What They Tell Us About Who We Are and What We Love and Fear (Hybrid)
September 13, 2025September 13, 2025Gwendolyn Diaz-Ridgeway | Saturday, Sep 13 | 1-4p CT | Dive deeply into universal archetypes through classic and contemporary fairy tales to increase self-awareness, understand motivational forces, and appreciate how narratives evolve over time.
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Community Learning Lab (Online)
September 19, 2025September 19, 2025Brooke Summers-Perry | Friday, Sep 19 | 12 - 1:30p CT | Engage in collaborative learning, sharing insights, asking questions, and co-creating knowledge through active discussion and reflection centered on how we are applying what is inspiring us and what we are learning.
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Elements Connected: Collage for Balance and Interconnection (In-Person)
September 20, 2025September 20, 2025Tiffany Heng-Hui Lee | Saturday, Sep 20 | 2 - 4p CT | 15 Max Attendees | Join us for a creative presentation and hands-on workshop in which we explore the interconnectedness of the five Chinese elements and their role in maintaining personal and ecological balance, through the practice of abstract paper collage art.
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The Nones: Who Are They and What's Their Deal? (In-Person)
September 27, 2025September 27, 2025Jill Carroll | Saturday, Sep 27 | 10a - 12p CT | Join us as Dr. Jill Carroll reveals the diverse beliefs and practices of the rapidly growing “nones” population—those who identify as having no religious affiliation—through new research insights that can foster better understanding within relationships and in broader contexts.
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An Evening with Playback Theatre (In-Person)
October 03, 2025October 03, 2025Houston Playback Theatre | Friday, Oct 3 | 7 - 8:30pm CT | Relax and enjoy an evening with Houston Playback Theatre as the true stories of audience members come to life.
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Cancelled: The Money Wound and Its Twelve Apostles (In-Person)
October 04, 2025October 04, 2025Sandra G Moore | Saturday, Oct 4 | 10a - 4p CT | Potentially appropriate for 5 CEs* | 15 Max Attendees | Gain insight into the effects of hidden trauma and unconscious patterned fears that drive our relationship with money. Learn to uncover and heal these wounds to foster healthy financial habits.
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Film & Psychoanalysis | Phantom Thread (Hybrid)
October 17, 2025October 17, 2025Asli Baykal | Friday, Oct 17 | Doors open at 5p. Free screening begins at 5:30p CT | Presentation ($20) from 8 to 9p CT | Co-presented with the Houston Psychoanalytic Society | Potentially appropriate for 1 CE* | Explore complicated grief and attempts to resolve it through “perverse pacts.”
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CANCELLED: Personal Stories Workshop: Engaging Art and Memory for Reinvention (In-Person)
October 18, 2025October 18, 2025Laura Spector | Saturday, Oct 18 | 1 - 4p CT | Engage in visual storytelling with artist Laura Spector as your guide.
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Interpreting Music, Interpreting the World: How to Listen Beyond Ourselves (Hybrid)
October 25, 2025October 25, 2025Chaden Yafi | Saturday, Oct 25 | 10a - 12p CT | Discover the parallels between musical interpretation and navigating diverse worldviews, drawing on philosophy, anthropology, and existential questions.
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FULL: Listening to Orpheus: Friday Night Performance (In-Person)
October 31, 2025October 31, 2025Kenneth Gayle and Rodney Waters | Friday, Oct 31 | 7 - 8:30p CT | Suggested Donation, $15 | Limited seating, registration required | Engage with music’s transformative power in this brief lecture and concert inspired by darkness and the underworld through the myth of Orpheus. A Unity Fine Arts production generously underwritten by The Bosarge Family Foundation.
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FULL: Listening to Orpheus: Saturday Night Performance (In-Person)
November 01, 2025November 01, 2025Kenneth Gayle and Rodney Waters | Saturday, Nov 1 | 7 - 8:30p CT | Suggested Donation, $15 | Limited seating, registration required | Engage with music’s transformative power in this brief lecture and concert inspired by darkness and the underworld through the myth of Orpheus. A Unity Fine Arts production generously underwritten by The Bosarge Family Foundation.
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Member Appreciation Lecture | Re-Humanization: Connecting With Ourselves (In-Person)
November 06, 2025November 06, 2025Jill Carroll | Thursday, Nov 6 | 6:30 - 8p CT | Challenge the cultural tendency to dehumanize by exploring its roots and learning concrete actions to foster greater awareness and promote individual and collective flourishing.
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Archaeology Now: Explore, Preserve, Transmit Cultural Heritage: Friday Lecture (Hybrid)
November 07, 2025November 07, 2025Irving Finkel | Friday, Nov 7 | 6 - 7:30p CT | Join us as Dr. Irving Finkel, the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages, and cultures in the Middle East Department of the British Museum, uncovers how script began and what people wrote about in their now extinct languages. Generously sponsored by Archaeology Now in partnership with The British Consulate-Houston.
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Archaeology Now: Explore, Preserve, Transmit Cultural Heritage: Saturday Workshop (Hybrid)
November 08, 2025November 08, 2025Irving Finkel | Saturday, Nov 8 | 10a - 2p CT | Voyage through some of the world’s most iconic cuneiform texts in stories, letters, and music and explore the amulets, magical spells, and rituals used to address demons, devils, witches, and to summon ghosts. Generously sponsored by Archaeology Now in partnership with The British Consulate-Houston.
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Contradictory Truths: Connecting Through Discomfort, Dialoguing Through Discovery (In-Person)
November 15, 2025November 15, 2025Kelly Penrod & Michael Winters | Saturday, Nov 15 | 1 - 4pm CT | Potentially appropriate for 3 CEs* | Develop emotional resilience and dialogic skills to engage empathetically with conflicting beliefs, stay connected during upheaval, and hold space for ambiguity and disagreement.
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CANCELLED: Community Learning Lab (In-Person)
November 22, 2025November 22, 2025Brooke Summers-Perry | Saturday, Nov 22 | 2 - 3:30p CT | Engage in collaborative learning, sharing insights, asking questions, and co-creating knowledge through active discussion and reflection centered on how we are applying what is inspiring us and what we are learning.
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Human Rights in Theory and Practice (Hybrid)
January 15, 2026February 05, 2026Bridget Fernandes | Four Thursdays, Jan 15 - Feb 5 | 6 - 8p CT | max attendees 30 | Explore the evolution of human rights through analysis and discussion of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and learn to embody equity, justice, and solidarity in everyday life.
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Introduction to the Enneagram Personality System (Online)
January 16, 2026February 20, 2026Judy Wilbratte | Six Fridays, Jan 16 - Feb 20 | 2 - 3:30p CT | Explore the Enneagram to recognize unconscious patterns, embrace your strengths, deepen self-awareness, and improve relationships with greater compassion and understanding.
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The Art of Deep Listening (Hybrid)
January 17, 2026January 17, 2026Mary Anne Casey | Saturday, Jan 17 | 1 - 3p CT | 25 max in-person attendees | With clear guidance, learn how to use a structured process to access both our painful feelings and our joyful triumphs to honor and allow healing for ourselves and others.
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Introduction to Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy (Hybrid)
January 24, 2026January 24, 2026Michael Winters | Saturday, Jan 24 | 9a - 1p CT | Discover methods for discovering life’s meaning through thought-provoking discussions and practical exercises based on Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy. | Potentially appropriate for 4 CEs*
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Deep Listening Circle: January (In-Person)
January 24, 2026January 24, 2026Mary Anne Casey | Saturday, Jan 24 | 1 - 3p CT | Practice using a structure and safe container for deep listening to help you process your life with compassion, connection, and non-judgmental attention.
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Jazz & Journaling (In-Person)
February 07, 2026February 07, 2026Carla Lyles | Saturday, Feb 7 | 11:30 - 1:30p CT | max attendees 25 | Step inward through the combined languages of music, art, writing, and crafting a personalized journal that fosters reflection, self-expression, and community connection.
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Self-Ethnography: Telling your story through Writing, Collage, and Photography (In-Person)
February 17, 2026March 10, 2026Bridget Fernandes | Four Tuesdays, Feb 17 - Mar 10 | 6 - 8p CT |Engage with your cultural identity through writing, collage, and photography, reflecting on personal experiences and deepening self-understanding through creative expression.
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Creative Practices for a Meaningful Life (Online)
February 21, 2026February 21, 2026Brooke Summers-Perry | Saturday, Feb 21 | 1 - 4p CT | Discover a variety of simple creative practices to access your inner guide, habituate awareness and compassion, and establish a more robust routine that supports your values.
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Composing Your Life (In-Person)
February 23, 2026March 30, 2026Felix Scardino | Six Mondays, Feb 23 - Mar 30 | 6 - 9p CT | max attendees 15 | Discover how to awaken each morning anticipating what you are creating, rather than worrying about what you fear. | Potentially appropriate for 18 CEs*
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In Good Company: Community Transformation with Tarot (Online)
February 25, 2026February 25, 2026Samphire Savage | Wednesday, Feb 25 | 6 - 9p CT| Reimagine the tarot as a creative tool to move beyond fear and grief, spark innovation, and collaboratively envision new possibilities.
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An Evening with Playback Theatre (In-Person)
February 27, 2026February 27, 2026Houston Playback Theatre | Friday, Feb 27 | 7 - 8:30p CT | max attendees 55 | Relax and enjoy an evening with Houston Playback Theatre as the true stories of audience members come to life.
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Deep Listening Circle: February (In-Person)
February 28, 2026February 28, 2026Mary Anne Casey | Saturday, Feb 28 | 1 - 3p CT | Practice using a structure and safe container for deep listening to help you process your life with compassion, connection, and non-judgmental attention.
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Creative Practice: Wellness Through Art (Online)
March 26, 2026March 26, 2026Helen Spaw | Thursday, Mar 26 | 10a - 12p CT | Reconnect with your innate creativity through art-making, mindfulness, and self-expression to enhance wellness, relieve stress, and gain deeper insight.
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Deep Listening Circle: March (In-Person)
March 28, 2026March 28, 2026Mary Anne Casey | Saturday, Mar 28 | 1 - 3p CT | Practice using a structure and safe container for deep listening to help you process your life with compassion, connection, and non-judgmental attention.
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Snapshots of Life: Writing Your Story in Small Bursts (Online)
March 31, 2026April 14, 2026Stefanie Fercking | Three Tuesdays, Mar 31 - Apr 14 | 6:30 - 8p CT | 12 max attendees | Discover the power of short-form memoir to process life experiences, spark creativity, and express truth with honesty, clarity, and emotion.
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Forging Heroic Clarity & Building Confidence for Life (Hybrid)
April 08, 2026April 29, 2026Shavonnah Roberts Schreiber | Four Wednesdays, Apr 8 - 29 | 6 - 7:15p CT | Develop self-leadership–and close the gap between potential and performance–by clarifying goals, boosting confidence, and creating daily practices to respond intentionally to challenges.
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Exploring Dreams through Expressive Arts and Embodiment Practices (In-Person)
April 25, 2026April 25, 2026Camille Mica | Saturday, Apr 25* | 9a - 12:30p CT| max attendees 12 | Explore your dreams through the lens of depth psychology paired with embodied practices, including guided meditation, somatic awareness, writing or journaling, expressive visual art-making, and a practice called Authentic Movement. Potentially appropriate for 3 CEs*
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Deep Listening Circle: April (In-Person)
April 25, 2026April 25, 2026Mary Anne Casey | Saturday, Apr 25 | 1 - 3p CT | Practice using a structure and safe container for deep listening to help you process your life with compassion, connection, and non-judgmental attention.
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How Our Childhood Experiences Impact Our Adult Relationships (In-Person)
May 06, 2026May 06, 2026Liz Seitz | Wednesday, May 6 | 6 - 8p CT | Join us as we explore the connection between the ways we adapted to our childhood struggles and the complications in our adult relationships. | Potentially appropriate for 2 CEs*
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