Podcast and Radio Interview:

https://entertalkmedia.com/michael-franklin-ph-d-art-as-contemplative-practice/

OR

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/michael-franklin-ph-d-art-as-contemplative-practice/id1176299389?i=1000439020092

Link to an interview with the Art Therapy Association of Colorado:

http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/ u=bedc9bbc65e65e79c483e2772&id=5f1d98ea1f&e=20ad9af5ca

These podcasts address multiple subjects including art and yoga and art and meditation.

Bio:

Michael A. Franklin, PhD, ATR-BC, is the past chair of the graduate Transpersonal Art Therapy program and is the founder and director of the Naropa Community Art Studio (NCAS) at Naropa University in Boulder Colorado. Throughout his career, Michael has worked as a clinician, educator, and practitioner-researcher. Prior to his position at Naropa University he directed the art therapy programs at the College of St. Teresa and Bowling Green State University.

Michael lecturers and leads workshops nationally and internationally on art and yoga, art and meditation, and art as imaginal intelligence. He has published over 30 papers on various subjects including aesthetics, self-esteem, AID's iconography, interpretive strategies, transpersonal art therapy, community based art therapy, art-based empathic interventions, and contemplative approaches including yoga, and meditation. His current research as an artist and writer focuses on integrating the relationships between visual art, social engagement, yoga philosophy, and meditation. (See “Art as Contemplative Practice: Expressive Pathways to the Self) http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6374-art-as-contemplative-practice.aspx

Orientation:

My orientation as a socially engaged artist, contemplative practitioner, teacher, and therapist blends the perspectives of Yoga traditions, the depth psychologies, and expressive therapies with the humanistic principals of transpersonal, imaginal, and client centered therapy. My goal is to support and help guide my art therapy/counseling students and my private practice clients into transformational processes that utilize the arts and contemplative methods. Meaningful material can surface from self-reporting about personal artwork including imaginal interviewing processes, poetic writing, and attunement to embodied experiences.  

Awards:

Distinguished Service Award. American Art Therapy Association, November, 2018.

Distinguished Educator Award. American Art Therapy Association, November, 2016.

Master of ceremonies for the presidential inauguration of Charles Lief, Naropa University. February, 2013.

Faculty graduation speaker, Naropa University graduation, May, 2012.

Selected by the Naropa faculty to offer the opening convocation for the 2004 academic school year.

Award for the best paper in the "Arts as Medicine" category at the 1992 International World Congress on Arts and Medicine.

'Il Magnifico Medici Circle Award for excellence in teaching , Bowling Green State University School of Art, April l992.