Chris Zydel, Founder of Creative Juices Arts, has over 28 years of experience as a compassionate creativity guide. She is devoted to providing the enthusiastic encouragement and inspiration that supports her clients in developing their full creative potential and living a vital and authentic creative life.She has worked extensively with individuals, couples and groups to help them connect with what is most real and essential in their lives. With humor, insight and compassion she gently challenges the unnecessary limitations that people believe regarding who they are and what they can become.

CREATIVITY COACHING

 As a creativity coach Chris has successfully mentored countless writers, painters, photographers and business owners ... anyone with a creative vision trying to be born! Her deep intuitive understanding of the creative process directs the people she works with towards choices that lead to a greater sense of creative purpose and fulfillment.

Her greatest joy is in supporting people to take the risks necessary to claim all of who they are, to create a life that has meaning, and to encourage their opening to greater levels of fulfillment. Her own personal experience, as well as her work with others has shown her that the 'royal road" to a satisfying, balanced, heartfelt life is through creative expression. However, accessing our true creativity means having the willingness to explore our shadow side, to confront our inner critic, and to risk exposing our emotional vulnerability and needs.

ASTROLOGICAL COUNSELING

Chris utilizes many different tools in her work with clients and students but one that she finds tremendously useful and powerful is evolutionary astrology.

This type of astrology does not put you in a box, describing you in a static way, but operates from the premise that you are free to make choices about how to deal with the planetary energies that you are given. An astrological reading of your birth chart can help you to see these choices more clearly and can point you in the direction of choosing options that are most likely to lead to happiness, satisfaction and fulfillment.

This approach to astrology is spiritual and metaphysical in focus with a strong grounding in depth psychology, archetypal symbolism and pragmatic, common sense reality. A major underlying premise of this approach is that there is an overarching meaning and purpose to your life and that astrology can help you to identify and more fully live out that purpose. 

WORKSHOP AND RETREAT FACILITATOR 

 Through her popular PAINTING FROM THE WILD HEART workshops Chris creates a sacred space where the power of intuitive painting, dance and movement and in depth group process works its magic of healing, personal growth and spiritual renewal. 

IN ALL OF HER WORK, Chris provides a safe space in which people feel fully held to embrace the depths of their psyche, and the range of all their feelings from grief to joy. She has been honored to work with many individuals, both singly and in groups, who have had the courage to face the inner demons that guard the gates to the treasure of their real, creative self.

HER BACKGROUND  and training include a Masters Degree in Clinical Counseling from John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, CA and a certification in hypnotherapy from The Hypnosis Clearing House in Lafayette, CA. She has been a student of the Enneagram of personality for 18 years and a former practitioner of Reichian and bio-energetic bodywork. In addition, she has a certification in Evolutionary Astrology from well known author and astrologer Steven Forrest, and is an active member of his astrological apprenticeship program. She is a member of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association , has studied with Natalie Rogers, founder of The Person Centered Expressive Therapy Institute. She has completed a 2 year teacher training program with The Painting Experience, and has been painting, writing, dancing, cooking, making photographs and all around living a creative life for as long as she can remember! 

For more information on her services please go to her website at www.creativejuicesarts.com.