Advisor
Michael A. Franklin, PhD, ATR-BC, is professor and past chair of the graduate Transpersonal Art Therapy program at Naropa University. Prior to this appointment, he chaired the art therapy programs at the College of St. Teresa and Bowling Green State University.
Michael continues to work as a clinician in private practice and as an international lecturer, workshop leader and researcher publishing over 30 papers on numerous subjects. His current work integrates the relationships between art therapy, art-based in-session empathic methods, community-based arts, and how to incorporate contemplative approaches within graduate training and clinical work.
He is the recipient of the American Art Therapy Associations Distinguished Educator Award and Distinguished Service Award, and is author of: Art as Contemplative Practice: Expressive Pathways to the Self with SUNY Press. (see ArtisYoga.com)
