Creativity and Aging

Saturday, February 22, 2025
10:00 am – 3:00 pm EST
a Zoom seminar led by
Julie Bondanza, PhD

Contact hours:4 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

Jung said, “We would do well…to think of the creative process as a living thing implanted in the human psyche.” Collected Works, Vol. 15, para. 115

The creative process has no age limit.  We see it in small children as they play act; we see it in the dark poetry of adolescents; we see it in adults as they use imagination in their parenting and in their work.  We can see it in older people as they explore their psyches and their attitudes toward their lives in a multitude of creative ways.

In this workshop we will look at the academic research that shows how creativity affects the attitudes of older people toward the aging process and the approach of death. We will also explore some of the creative work done by people as they age, and we will have an opportunity to explore our own experience of creativity as we, ourselves, grow older.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

1. Explain how creativity affects people as they age.
2. Describe specific examples of how the creative process manifested in older people.
3. Explore the place of creativity in their own lives.

Julie Bondanza, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and licensed psychologist in private practice in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. She trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, where she was on the teaching faculty for many years. She has been the director of training for both the New York Institute and the Philadelphia branch of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She is the program director for the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, where she had served for many years on its board of trustees, and she teaches in many Jungian venues across the country, both to the public and to analysts-in-training.

Contact hours: Four CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc. is recognized by New York State Education Department’s State Board of Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0350.

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0015.

C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists, #CAT-0068.

Saturday, February 22, 2025: 10:00 am–3:00 pm EST

This is an online program via Zoom. This program will not be recorded.