Creative creation as a projection screen of one´s own 2

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Subject guarantor:

Alice RŮŽIČKOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Jana Merhautová, Alice RŮŽIČKOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The module instruction aim is to understand one's own creative potential.

Mode of study:

Documentary Dept. module instruction:

Lecturer: Jana Merhautová (coordinater: Alice Růžičková)

Date and time: Friday, 6. 4. 2018, 10:00 -17:00, Documentary Dept. classroom 217

Grading requirements/Assignment for 1 credit - 90% attendance + class particiipation

Capacity: 15

Elective course for: this module is suitable for all FAMU Study programmes.

Language of instruction: Czech

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

none

Course contents:

Three meetings (divided into three independent modules) about artistic creativity with the possibility of looking behind the curtain of everyday visible relationships - working with subconscious processes.

The first meeting (Friday 24.11. 10:00 - 17:00, Documentary Dept. 217) will be devoted to case studies of original works and uncovering the story which the piece tells us. There will be the opportunity to look at how so called „projection screens“ function and how much information we learn about ourselves through this creation.

In the second meeting (Friday, 6. 10:00 - 17:00, Documentary Dept.217) we will work with our own originality potential which we can expand if we recognize well our own concious and subconscious motives. We can test how we understand it; what attracts us, calls to us and is beyond us in creating. We gain a solid image of how to fulfil our ideas about a piece. The second study meeting brings to the students the opportunity to see orginal works from non-traditional perspectives. Through a supervised analytical view at pieces we have a glimpse of the emotional link between a piece and one's internal hiddent motives. The original work is understood as a projection screen of our own psyche. If we wish to realize our full talent and be successful, it is important to grasp what manner of creation influences our subconscious and what topics reflect our surroundings. We can, in practice, test what really attracts, calls and is beyond us. We receive a solid image of how to fulfil our idea about a piece.

Three meetings (if interested - a weekend in May) take place as two-day experiental meetings in the wild area of the Czech Switzerland National Park.The surroundings of the sandstone cliffs, moss and ferns will be the studio and creativity will take place in day and night of the countryside. Aside from the great experience related to the artistic self-expression, we also gain a glimpse of the function of one's own creative day. Part of this meeting will be the opportunity to use supervisory support in creativity, and primarily in the understanding of the emotional links between one's piece and one's core.

The program may be completed in parts. It best functions if all three parts are completed.

Recommended or required reading:

none

Assessment methods and criteria:

90% attendance and class participation

Course web page:

Note:

Instructor: Jana Merhautová, Mgr.

Eco-art therapist, supervisor, teaching instructor. Founder of the Institute for Eco-art Therapy.

Academic education: Master's studies at Charles University, Faculty of the Humanities in Prague, study: Supervision and Social work at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Ústí nad Labem. Psychotherapy education in art therapy: five years self-experiential exercises in deeply-oriented psychotherapy with a focus on art therapy, training in crisis intervention and a number of other topical courses in psycotherapy. From 2006 - 2015, a member of the council of the Czech Art-therapy Association in which she is an accredited supervisor. An external instructor at the Charles University, Faculty of the Humanities in Prague, creative approaches in supervision, group work and organization supervision. In 2008 she founded an accredited training institution with many program in social services. She is ranked in the national register of independent social service professionals. She has years of experience with clients with psychological illnesses with students and workers in assistance professions,managers, health workers and instructors. Her many years of professional practive is in the areas of art-therapy, supervision and training, including child development.

In 2016 she founded in the Czech Republic the first therapy training institute Eko Art Therapy, whose mission is to spread the methods of eco art therapy, eco art instruction, and supervision. The concept is based on her great personal experience in nature, creative art-therapy creation, teaching and change. In the institute she leads accredited training, courses and seminars for lay persons and professionals. In this she collaborates with University Faculties of arts and social studies.

In her practice she joins creative psycho-therapy and supervision methods with instruction and training forms of work. This supports the basic principle of human co-existence with nature, relation to it, and aesthetic and ethic behaviour. She has systematically continued to educate herself and is an active participant in professional conferences as well as publishes. Currently she is studying for her Ph.D. Project Nature Connect, Institute of Global Education ECO 570/670, The Applied Eco-psychologyof Equine Assisted Eco-Therapy in the US and dramaturgy in the Actors Studio in Prague, under the tutelage of the Artistic Director, Pavel Kolář (writer, choreographer, dramaturgist, scriptwriter). An interview in a book with prominent Czech art-therapists:„Art Discussions“ František Kšajt, 2015): http://www.kosmas.cz/knihy/205865/hovory-arte/

Further information:

This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans: