Shaun McNiff is the Dean of Lesley College and University Professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an internationally recognized figure in the areas of the arts and healing and creativity enhancement, an exhibiting painter, and the author of many acclaimed books that include Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul, Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go; Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination; Creating with Others: The Practice of Imagination in Life, Art and the Workplace; Art-Based Research, Depth Psychology of Art, and The Arts and Psychotherapy.