Creative Existential

This individual therapy for children, teenagers and adults is based on Creative Ethics, created and developed by Verity J Gavin.

The Play of Relating

The Play of Relating is a novel approach for professionals in the helping professions across the medical, social, psychological and educational sectors.

Initiatives with Therapeutic Benefits

These are varied and encourage projects involving action, outreach and information/advice for the benefit of individuals and communities in great difficulty.

Verity J Gavin

Founder of the Creative Ethic

Of Anglo-Scottish origin and holding both British and French nationalities, Verity J Gavin has lived in France since 1990.

Once a social then anthropologist and psychotherapist, Verity is specialised in Existential Therapy. Throughout her career, she explored various ‘creative art therapies’ both personally and professionally.

She has developed a therapeutic approach based on the importance of Creative Relating and play creating for clients/patients of all ages.

the Creative Ethic is...

It is quite simply a proposal for us humans to take responsibility for our innate creativity, which is relational. It is the foundation of our ability to generate meaning in life, in our own lives, and in what I call our ‘poetry of existence’.

It is the possibility of maintaining and restoring our openness to our own potential to be, our courage to be, to create and to shape our lives, and thus to enrich our experience of existing more calmly and with the satisfaction of making a contribution to others and to the world.

It is a proposal for a way of being alive, of taking care of oneself, others and our planet.

It is a proposal for approaching the therapeutic relationship, the helping relationship and all kinds of initiatives aimed at reducing the suffering of traumatised individuals and populations in situations of distress and precariousness.

The Creative Ethic logo represents our openness of being across its three relational levels.