Terri Goslin-Jones
Terri
Goslin-Jones
Adjunct Faculty
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- Terri Goslin-Jones, Ph.D.
- Department
- Humanistic Psychology
- Institution
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Saybrook University
- Office Phone
- 314-378-4508
- Biography
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Terri Goslin-Jones, PhD, REACE serves as Psychology/Creativity Studies faculty at Saybrook University
and consulting faculty for the Person-Centered Expressive Arts program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Life's Concerto: Wholeness through Poetry and Expressive Arts (2025) and co-author of Weaving Ourselves Whole: A Guide to Forming a Transformational Expressive Arts Circle (2023).
She teaches graduate courses in Art and Healing, Expressive Arts, and Poetry for Death, Loss, and Transition. Terri serves on dissertation committees that include poetry, creativity, and expressive arts-based research at Saybrook University. Her reason for teaching and serving as an advisor for doctoral research is to support lifelong learners in a quest to create change in their lives and in their part of the world. Creativity is at the heart of her work.
Terri has designed and facilitated community poetry circles on topics such as self-compassion, death, loss, and life transition, nature/haiku, dreams, and our emotional landscape. She is a mindfulness facilitator and completed UCLA's Mindfulness Research Awareness Center Trainers program.
Terri also completed the 20-day, Nine-Gates Mystery School, an experiential immersion from the Celtic, African, Native American, Spiritual Psychology, Sufi, esoteric Christian, Hindu, Sound Healing, Kabbalah, and Buddhist traditions. She has a passion for exploring humanistic and transpersonal psychology, world religions, and multi-cultural worldviews.
She previously served as a Vice-President of Human Resources and received certification in coaching (ICF through Lee Hecht Harrison), MBTI, HOGAN, Dimensional management training, Dismantling Racism-NCCJ, International Association of Quality Circles, and Leadership Effectiveness Analysis 360 Feedback.
Her creative passions include family life, expressive arts, painting, poetry, gardening, and a love for life-long learning, physical fitness, spirituality, and international travel.
Website: www.terrigoslin-jones.com
- Areas of Expertise
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Area Expertise Business/IO Psychology Leadership Career/Workplace Issues Career Development Work/Life Balance Coaching Executive and Career Coaching Health and Wellness Coaching Life Coaching Consciousness & Spirituality Studies Personal Mythology Spirituality Counselor Education Creativity Mindfulness Creativity Studies Arts and healing Creativity Leadership & Management Human Resource Management Leadership Approaches and Practices Psychology Business/IO Psychology Humanistic Psychology - Education History
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Degree Institution Year Ph.D. Psychology Saybrook University, San Francisco, CA 2010 M.S. Personnel and Counseling Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, Ohio 1980 B.S. Psychology Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 1978 UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research Center Facilitator Training UCLA, Los Angeles 2017 Poetic Medicine Practitioner Certificate Institute of Poetic Medicine, Palo Alto 2022 - Professional Memberships
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Role Organization REACE Committee International Expressive Arts Therapists Association Member American Psychological Association Member Institute of Noetic Sciences - Community Involvement
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Role Organization Board Member Forsyth School "Artist in Residence" REACE Committee International Expressive Arts Therapists Association - Curriculum Vitae
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- Presentations
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Title Location Date Weaving Ourselves Whole: Transformation through Conscious Aging International Expressive Arts Therapists Association June 2025 Weaving Ourselves Whole: Journey of Self-Discovery through the Portal of an Expressive Arts Circle United Kingdom PCEA May 2024 Walking Life’s Labyrinth Mercy Center, St. Louis, MO October 2023 Igniting Creativity with an Expressive Arts Circle Southern Oregon University Creativity Conference May 2023 Creative Expressive Arts and Everyday Living APA Symposium: San Francisco, CA August 2018 Mending Social Fabrics: The Alchemy of Self-Compassion IEATA Conference in Winnipeg, Canada October 5, 2017 Person-Centered Expressive Arts Research Panel IEATA Conference in Hong Kong October 9, 2015 Exploring the Roar Behind Self-Silencing IEATA Conference in Hong Kong October 8, 2015 What is Beneath the Veil: Art Exhibit C.G. Jung Society Jung in the Heartland: The Altar of the Earth September 2015 Person-Centered Expressive Arts: A journey to creative relationships APA Symposium: Orlando, Florida August 2012 Using Expressive Arts to Cultivate a Person's Fuller Potential in the Workplace APA Poster Session: Washington, DC August 2011 The Perceived Effects of Person-Centered Expressive Arts on One's Work Experience APA Poster Session: Washington, DC August 2011 - Research
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creativity, expressive arts, poetry
- Publications
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Book Goslin-Jones, T. (2025). Life's Concerto: Wholeness through Poetry and Expressive Arts. Denver, CO: University Professors Press.
Goslin-Jones, T.; Caraffa, P.; Carson, H.; McCallum, K.; Reinert, G.; Williger, N. (2023). Weaving Ourselves Whole: A Guide to Forming a Transformational Expressive Arts Circle. Denver, CO: University Professors Press.
Chapter Goslin-Jones, T. (2020). Expressive Arts. In M. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.) (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Creativity (pp. 3rd ed., pp. 478-484). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Richards, R. L. & Goslin-Jones, T. (2020). Everyday Creativity. In M. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.) (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Creativity (pp. 3rd ed., pp. 455-462). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Goslin-Jones, T. & Richards, R. (2018). Mysteries of creative process: Explorations at work and in daily life.. In L. Martin and N. Wilson (Eds. (Ed.) The Palgrave handbook of creativity at work (pp. pp.71-106). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Richards, R. & Goslin-Jones, T. (2018). Everyday creativity: Challenges for self and world—six questions. In the nature of human creativity. In R. Sternberg and J. Kaufman (Ed.) (pp. p. 224-225). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Goslin-Jones, T. & Herron, S.A. (2016). Cutting Edge Person-Centered Expressive Arts. In C. Lago & D. Charr (Ed.) The Person-Centred counseling and psychotherapy handbook (pp. p.199-211). New York: Open University Press, McGraw-Hill Education.
Goslin-Jones, T. & Herron, S.A. (2016). Person-Centred Expressive Arts Therapy: An experiential psychology of self-realization.. In P. Wilkins (Ed.) Person-Centred and experiential therapies (pp. p. 89-103). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Richards, R., Kolva, J., ...Goslin-Jones, T., et al. (2011). Creativity revalued: How professors, students, and an innovative university are turning the tide. In NeuroQuantology (pp. 9(3), 468-493). : .
Goslin-Jones, T. (2011). Using expressive arts to transform the workplace. In In N. Rogers (Vol. Author, and Ed. of Chapter 10, Applications of Person-Centered Expressive Arts Group Facilitation), The creative connection for groups: Person-Centered Expressive Arts for healing and social change (pp. pp. 354-357). Palo Alto, CA: Science and Behavior Books.
Goslin-Jones, T. (2010). The perceived effects of person-centered expressive arts on one's work experience. In ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. UMI number: 3418296. Available at www.terrigoslin-jones.com: .
- Professional Skills
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creativity, coaching, expressive arts, mindfulness, poetry, qualitative research, leadership,
