Shaun McNiff, Ph.D

is the University Professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an internationally recognized figure in the areas of the arts and healing and creativity enhancement, and the author of many books that include Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul, Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go; Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination; Creating with Others: The Practice of Imagination in Life, Art and the Workplace; Art-Based Research, Depth Psychology of Art, The Arts and Psychotherapy, and the forthcoming Integrating the Arts in Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice. McNiff is a past president of the American Art Therapy Association and an Honorary Life Member. He established the first expressive arts therapy graduate training program at Lesley University from which the discipline of expressive arts therapy emerged.