Life artistry centre Founder
TEacher | author | guide
Suzanne Cremen Ph.D. founded the Life Artistry Centre in Australia in 2005, living and working on Jinibara and Wurundjeri country. She designs and teaches much-loved graduate level courses, and writes, lectures and consults on creative applications of depth psychology in service of re-storying and repairing our world.
An experienced scholar-practitioner with an extensive occupational background, Suzanne’s qualifications include two Masters degrees (in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology, and Engaged Humanities and Mythological Studies) from Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA, and degrees in Arts and Law from UNSW. She is the author of From Career to Calling: A depth psychology guide to soul-making work in darkening times (Routledge 2020), which was a finalist in the Australian Career Book Awards supported by the Royal Society of Arts Oceania.
For 5 years, Dr Cremen was the only Australian-based faculty member at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she re-designed and taught a Masters/ PhD degree course on the depth psychology of vocation, and has served as guest faculty at the Assisi Institute for Archetypal Patterns (USA). Currently she also serves on the management committee of non-profit advocacy organisation Humanities 21. She loves working with bright, creative people on projects that help to restore and re-story our world. A 2022 client project was the development of an archetypal values tool with the Australian Parents’ Council.
Dr Cremen is an advocate for the therapeutic power of the imagination, the arts and the humanities for healing the cultural psyche and our relationships with nature. In 2012 she was a plenary presenter in NYC at the Art and Psyche in the City Conference, sponsored by New York University, IAAP, ARAS and the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association. In 2014 she chaired a symposium on 'Vocation as Psyche’s Call' at the International Conference in Guidance and Career Development in Québec. She is published in scholarly journals including Quadrant and the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance. In 2013 she co-edited a ground-breaking special issue of the International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches on 'Depth Psychological Research Methods: Multiple and Engaged Approaches'. Her essay on ‘Sex, Madness & Spirituality: The Introverted Intuitive and Individuating with the Inferior Function’ was selected from 180 papers to highlight in the 2021 Journal of Psychological Type—Research Digest. In 2022 she was invited to guest edit a special issue of Quadrant: Journal of the CG Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, New York, on ecological themes (forthcoming).
Dr Cremen is past-President and Honorary Life Member of the CG Jung Society of Queensland and a founding board member of the National Interfaith Association of Australia. Her background includes working as a lawyer with Tress Cocks Maddocks, general manager with the Institute for International Research, legal publisher with Thomson-Reuters, co-founder of scholarly publishing house eContent Management (acquired in 2014 by Routledge), marketing communications manager with Minter Ellison, screenwriter (funded by the NSW Film & Television Office) and career counsellor for adults in midlife. She is admitted as a solicitor to the Supreme Court of NSW and the High Court of Australia. During her publishing career she was publisher of the prestigious Australian Law Journal. She also produced Australia’s first National Children’s Summit at Parliament House, Canberra, supported by the Governor-General Sir William Deane and in collaboration with over 50 non-profit organisations including UNICEF and the Human Rights Commission, to give young people a voice in government, business and community decisions which affect them.
international Associates
Glen Slater PhD
Ashok Bedi MD
Safron Rossi PhD