Creative Existential Therapy For Children, Adolescents and Adults (With Special Reference To Training

Abstract

This paper introduces several key features of the therapeutic approach Creative Existential Therapy for children, adolescents and adults. Firstly the creative space of the practice-workshop is introduced. Secondly the three parameters that are ‘at play’ in its conceptual framework are outlined. Finally the paper considers the three attitudes that are progressively introduced in the training of Creative Existential therapists. Key words Being-in-creation, creative potentiality of being, creative relatedness, practice-workshop, symbolic sensed meaning, transpotentiality, trialogue.