About Djohariah Toor and Creative Process Training

"Every human person is...born from the intimate depths of the divine nature,
and from a divine wilderness." -- Meister Eckhart

Creative Process Training is a blend of psychotherapy and East-West spiritual traditions. The Creative Process is based on the idea that within the unconscious and the soul there is an immense creativity waiting to happen. CPT is designed to challenge our self-limits, confront the demons of memory, and free up the divine wilderness within.

The Creative Process has its roots in depth psychology, eidetic imagery, Gestalt, the arts, and creation-centered spirituality. The workshops and weekend retreats enable participants to directly access fields in the unconscious--where our self-limiting beliefs, as well as a profound creativity, exist side by side.

Djohariah Toor, MA, LMFT is a family therapist, artist, and mother of four. She has taught, lectured, and led retreats and workshops nationally and internationally on the subject of personal and spiritual growth for the last twenty-five years. She is the originator of Creative Process Training, and author of The Road by the River: A Healing Journey for Women (Harper and Row, 1987, republished by St. Martin’s Press, 1994) and Songs from the Mountain: The Four Directions to Spiritual Breakthrough (St. Martin’s Press, 1994, and Falken TaschenBuch, Germany, 1998).

Ms. Toor’s professional work includes individual and family therapy, workshops, seminars, public speaking, and community-oriented social justice.  Her areas of specialty include: family systems; relationship and communication; conflict resolution within families and groups; art and play therapy; addiction and eating disorders; depth psychology, dreams, and myth.  She has taught workshops in the US and abroad, including Panama, Mexico, Canada, Germany, and South Africa.

In 1986 she founded the Arbor House Counseling Center in Livermore, California, which provided therapy supervision, consultation, and training to interns, students and healthcare practitioners, where she served as Director until 1998.  In 1999 she received a "Woman of the Year" award from the Livermore Soroptomists Club for her work with women and children in the Livermore valley.  Ms. Toor volunteers with children at risk, and with people experiencing chronic and terminal illness. She lives on the central Oregon Coast and in Santa Fe, New Mexico.