Life artistry centre Founder and principal
Suzanne cremen PhD
Dr Suzanne Cremen is the founder of the Life Artistry Centre, where she designs and teaches courses and workshops, runs a small private practice, and consults in applications of depth and archetypal psychology. 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.
Suzanne holds a PhD from La Trobe University, two Masters degrees from the Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA (in Jungian and Archetypal Studies, and Engaged Humanities and Mythological Studies), and degrees in Law and Arts from the University of New South Wales. The only Australian-based faculty member at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, she re-designed and for 5 years 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 Dr Cremen serves part-time as General Manager of Humanities 21, a non-profit advocacy organisation committed to promoting the importance of the humanities in work and personal life. She loves working with bright, creative people on projects that help to restore and re-story our world.
Suzanne has a passion for advancing applications of the humanities and depth psychology to re-imagine notions of work, career and leadership, to foster creativity and respect for diversity, and to heal our relationships with the natural world. She is an advocate for the therapeutic power of the arts and the humanities in transforming and healing the cultural psyche. 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 was Chair and presenter at 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 paper 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.
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, divisional 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 Suzanne was editor 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