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28/09/2026

💥🍁🧡Check out what exciting activities LABRC has in store for you this autumn—from courses, to conferences, literary events, and our journal’s call for submissions!
For full info, visit www.labrc.co.uk

🧡Jungian Arts-Based Research: Knowing, Doing, and the Playful Unconscious:
A 6-week online course with Dr. Roula-Maria Dib
When: Tuesdays from Sept 8-Oct 13, 2026
19:00-21:00 (London Time)
Where: Online (Zoom)

🧡The Story of Symbols: Exploring Symbolism in Art History and Using Them to Deepen Our Poetry:
A 4-week poetry course with Lorette C. Luzajic
When: Mondays, Oct 5-19, 2026, 19:00-21:00 (London Time)
Where: Online (Zoom)

🧡Call for Submissions: Indelible’s issue 11
Theme: Chaos
Submissions Deadline: September 30, 2026
Guidelines: https://indeliblelit.com/submissions/

🧡Surrealism and Arts-Based Research: Bridging the Imagination and Reality Divide, a transdisciplinary conference
When: September 29-30, 2026
Where: Online

🧡Science and Sensibility: Method Meets Art, a transdisciplinary conference
October 17-18, 2026
Oxford University and Online

🧡Indelible Evenings ft. Dr. Kimberly Dark and Dr. Lucy Aphramor: Motherlode: Poetry, Care, and the Stories We Live By
Free, online
Oct 20, 2026
7pm

🧡Leading like a Mother Tree: A Jungian Approach to Facilitation, Leadership and Group Work, a 5-week course with Dr. Louise Austin
Mondays Nov 2-30, 2026
18:30-20:30 (London Time)
Online (Zoom)
Fee: £180

🧡Poetic Inquiry as Relational Practice, a 3-week course with Dr. Sandra L. Faulkner
Tuesdays Nov 3, 10, and 17, 2026
18:00-20:00 (London Time)
Online (Zoom)
Fee: £180

🧡Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformation and Arts-Based Research, a transdisciplinary conference
When: November 14-15, 2026
Where: Oxford University and Online
Fee: £180 (in-person), £100 (online)
Proposal Deadline: October 9, 2026

🧡Coaching, Psychology and the Art of Leadership, a transdisciplinary conference Inspired by Ted Lasso
When: November 27-28, 2026
Where: London (Richmond) and Online
Fee: £180 (in-person), £100 (online)
Proposal Deadline: October 16, 2026

🧡The Art of Chaos, a transdisciplinary conference
When: December 2-3, 2026
Where: Online (Zoom)
Fee: £100

09/09/2026

🏫Looking back at our 2026 LABRC Summer School: Knowing Through Image, Language, and the Living Psyche—It has taken us a little while to come back down to earth after this one!❤️

5 days. A beautiful group of people from around the world. So many conversations, images, words, questions, experiments, discoveries, walks, laughter—and perhaps a few unexpected encounters with the unconscious along the way☺️

We began with Psyche as Image and setting the theoretical background with Dr. Roula-Maria Dib on the idea of the research question as something living—something we might enter into relationship with rather than simply try to answer. Dr. Balick then took us into the fascinating and very timely territory of personal writing, the Self, and AI, asking what happens to self-inquiry when we write both with and without artificial intelligence.

With Dr. Louise Austin we entered the imaginal through Jungian image-work, active imagination, amplification, and Collaborative Imaginative Engagement, discovering what can happen when Psyche is invited to become a co-creator of knowledge rather than an object to be studied.

Dr. Rachel Newsome invited us to go deep into ourselves through narrative life-writing and depth writing, exploring autobiography not simply as the recording of a life, but as a living encounter between inner and outer experience.

And with Anthony Anaxagorou, poetry became a place for disrupting habitual thought as we explored Abstract vs. Strangeness—and how strange images, ambiguity and the distortion of reality might allow genuinely new thought to become possible.

In between all this thinking and making, there was yoga with Chloe Chloe Rose, the British Museum, a literary London walking tour, the National Gallery, a Richmond walk, and conversations over coffee and food.

To our wonderful Summer School participants: thank you for the warmth, curiosity, and creativity you brought.

And a huge thanks to our brilliant faculty: Aaron Balick, Anthony Anaxagorou, Louise Austin, Rachel Newsome and Chloe Rose Campbell—for bringing such different voices, practices and ways of knowing into conversation with one another. ❤️

Until 2027!

27/07/2026

🚀Office launched: our tenth issue of Indelible Literary and Arts Journal (gorgeous cover art by .c.luzajic) invites readers into the rich and mysterious world of Fermentation, exploring the hidden processes through which memory, grief, love, identity, imagination, language, and creativity slowly become something new.

Across poetry, prose, photography, and visual art, contributors from around the world approach fermentation in beautifully unexpected ways. Here, fermentation is more than a biological process—it becomes a metaphor for psychic transformation, artistic practice, cultural memory, ecological thinking, personal healing, and the alchemy of becoming.

This issue is filled with remarkable voices and breathtaking artwork that remind us that creativity, like fermentation itself, often asks us to trust what is happening beneath the surface before we can fully understand what is emerging.

A heartfelt thank you from editors and Arden Waterman to every writer, poet, artist, photographer, and contributor whose generosity, imagination, and courage have made this issue possible. Thank you also to our readers, who complete every work simply by encountering it. Meaning is never created by the artist alone—it comes alive in the meeting between artwork and audience.

We hope this issue lingers with you and continues to ferment long after you have turned the final page. Happy reading! ❤️☺️

27/07/2026

💚Our 2026 Ecopoetics and Environmental Artivism conference was another incredible event bringing together an extraordinary international community of poets, artists, scholars, filmmakers, environmentalists, psychologists, educators, activists, and creative practitioners who all share something in common: the belief that art is a way of paying attention, a way of thinking, and perhaps now more than ever, a way of responding to the world.

We were especially honoured to welcome the wonderful Ruth Padel as our keynote speaker. Through her captivating talk and breathtaking readings of her own poetry, Ruth invited us into worlds inhabited by animals, migration, memory, landscape, and our intricate relationship with the more-than-human world. Listening to her read was a gift in itself—reminding us that poetry has the remarkable ability not only to describe nature, but to deepen our sense of belonging within it.

During the event, we wandered through landscapes shaped by grief and hope, more-than-human worlds, environmental justice, poetry, film, painting, textiles, performance, and so many inspiring ways of reimagining our relationship with the Earth, showing how environmental knowledge is also emotional, ethical, symbolic, embodied, and deeply creative.

One of the greatest joys of the conference was its warmth wonderfully transdisciplinary spirit. It was in these conversations between disciplines, practices, and different ways of knowing—that new ideas emerged, connections were made, and collaborations began to take root.

A huge thanks to everyone who travelled from near and far, presented their work, shared their ideas, asked thoughtful questions, volunteered their time, or simply came with an open heart!

We are inspired, hopeful, and deeply grateful—and we hope the conversations, friendships, and ideas that began here continue to grow long after the conference has ended. 🌿💚

16/04/2026

Our 4th annual “Women Who Create: The Feminine & The Arts” conference brought together a remarkable community of scholars, artists, poets, practitioners, and seekers from around the world for 3 unforgettable days of dialogue, creativity, and connection at Cambridge University and online!

We were honoured to welcome 97 participants from over 20 countries, creating a truly global space of exchange, inspiration, and solidarity. From powerful keynote talks by the extraordinary Sandra Faulkner and Patricia Leavy, to deeply moving presentations, creative explorations, and meaningful conversations, this conference was a celebration of women’s voices, imagination, and transformative knowledge-making across disciplines! 💫

Across the three days, participants shared work spanning poetry, visual art, performance, feminist scholarship, mythology, ecology, trauma studies, literature, autoethnography, and arts-based research. We explored themes of identity, healing, memory, embodiment, creative practice, and cultural change—through papers, performances, workshops, and heartfelt discussions that reminded us of the power of creative inquiry to shape both knowledge and community.

We are profoundly grateful to our inspiring keynote speakers, presenters, moderators, and participants who shared their work, their stories, and their generosity of spirit. The richness of perspectives and the warmth of our global community made this gathering truly special.
To everyone who joined us—whether in person or online—thank you for helping create a space where creativity, scholarship, and connection could flourish. 🌸❤️

We are thrilled to see the friendships that have formed through this annual event over the years, and we continue to carry forward the insights, collaborations, and friendships formed this year…our hearts are full!🥰

15/04/2026

We were deeply moved and inspired at our recent event with Jungian psychologist Dr. Laner Cassar. Dr. Cassar introduced us to the transformative practice of Dreamweaving, a group-based practice rooted in active imagination. Drawing on his work in Imaginative Movement Therapy in this powerful shared experience, participants entered guided “waking dreams,” discovering how imagination can become a bridge between inner worlds and collective meaning. Through symbolic storytelling, creative reflection, and mythic imagery, the group experienced moments of connection, insight, and genuine emotional resonance. There was a palpable sense of wonder in the room — a reminder that imagination is not solitary, but communal and healing. We left feeling renewed, connected, and reminded of the profound power of creativity to bring psyche and community together.

Recording is now available on our Psychreative YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/LUrF9dLUrq4?si=raCKi3UdN-v1Qhyt

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