Liv Evensen, Ph.D.

Liv Evensen, Ph.D. of Oslo, Norway, is Jungian-trained in spiritual psychology. She is an oral story teller, expressive arts therapist, and poet who speaks internationally on myths, fables and fairy tales in multicultural communications, conducts creative courses and does international lectures on intuitive painting, creative writing, oral storytelling, and dreams. With the counseling of a Dream Mentor, she has been writing poems from her dreams since 2005. In the tradition of Dante with his guiding light Virgil, Ms. Evensen’s dreams are spoken in the voice of a Druid or shaman. As a result of a course in the study of miracles, Ms. Evensen says, “I was lifted high and saw Europe below me as a bleak continent, no people, only depressive chains for borders between and around each country.” Since then, she has immersed herself in the “miracle course,” and believes universal love is the answer to breaking the chains of depression and ending war.

A visual artist as well as a poet, Ms. Evensen also uses her painting as a means of getting in touch with and expressing her dreams. She is a language teacher for youngsters with hearing impairments, and a school librarian. Her professional teaching background as a teacher is also includes drama and special education for multi-dysfunctional young adults, and social sciences for “ordinary” youngsters. A freelance speaker with my own firm, The Fabel Lab Creative Workshops, she holds a B.S. from University of Oslo, Norway, in Drama, Media- and Communications and Educational Sciences. Her training has had emphasis in “Myths, fables and fairy tales in multicultural communications, drama”, and arts therapy, such as intuitive painting, tai chi, meditation on sound/toning and dreamwork, and drama courses. For 10 years she conducted a post-education workshop on arts therapy and multi-dysfunctional youngsters at University of Siauliai in Lithuania, and held master classes in Latvia, Lithuania, India, and Turkey.

Ms. Evensen will introduce and read some of her new poetry during Words & Music, 2014.