IDENTITY QUEST is a journey of S(s)elf recovery/discovery through the use of expressive arts . . . visual, literary, musical, dance cinema. and crafts.

 It is a way to find out who we are, and are NOT, as individual persons.

 It is a way to articulate our personhood, both verbally and non-verbally, to the outside world. 

It is a never ending quest for a balanced and harmonious way of living among humans and the global environment.

The on-going “answers” to our personal identity quest form the basis for our most important daily living decisions, and represent the sum total of our memories, experiences, genetics, and predispositions.

Sadly, the elusive definition of authentic "personal identity" causes immense conflicts. Expressive Arts can bridge these differences among individuals and social groups around the world.  Art is a Way to remain honest, a vehicle to communicate from the heart.

Expressive Arts allows us to see “what we really are," our basic patterns of human existence, and offers us endless possibilities of human definition and relationship.

Without a deep understanding of our essential nature as a human being,  and the difference between what "you think you are" and "what you REALLY are," all daily living is essentially at an internally unconscious and externally "programmed" level of behavior.

Without a firm grounding in “knowing your own personal Truth,” human relationships are usually conducted with survival-based, narcissistic motives that result in competition rather than cooperation

Daily living is always subject to changing stimuli.  A "normative function" for personal reaction to this changing world is required to avoid stress.  
Balancing guidelines for ethical interpersonal behavior 
must be consciously developed
 at a deep personal level of understanding.

A "meaningful" and "fulfilled" life is more probably achievable when a person embarks on an THE IDENTITY QUEST journey as a Way Of Living.
 

THE IDENTITY QUEST . . .

. . .  not just “thinking”. . . rather a holistic experiential approach that integrates rational thinking with intuitive feelings

. . . creating  a re-balanced S(s)elf mind that can evaluate the “personal Truth” of existing attitudes, beliefs, and behavior systems

. . . utilizing an approach that can disconnect the dominant rational, thinking mind to enable and support the expression of the subordinate intuitive, feeling mind

. . . adjusting personal behavior to foster more AUTHENTIC S(s)elf expression in any present moment of existence, rather than following the “dictates” of the historical past or illusory future