Mission Statement
Vision: Recognizing, understanding and nurturing our creative
potential makes us happier, healthier and more productive human
beings. Creativity leads to a more meaningful life. Creative thinking
and creative behavior stimulate creativity in others.
Mission: To provide services designed to nurture and develop the
creative potential and the mental health in adults, children and
adolescents, educators and organizations. To provide support for
parents and educators interested in fostering the creative potential
of their children and students.
Vision: Recognizing, understanding and nurturing our creative
potential makes us happier, healthier and more productive human
beings. Creativity leads to a more meaningful life. Creative thinking
and creative behavior stimulate creativity in others.
Mission: To provide services designed to nurture and develop the
creative potential and the mental health in adults, children and
adolescents, educators and organizations. To provide support for
parents and educators interested in fostering the creative potential
of their children and students.
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Washington International Center for Creativity, PLLC
Dr. Rosa Aurora Chavez-Eakle
Director
Dr. Chavez-Eakle studied Medicine and completed a Residency in Psychiatry, a M.Sc.
in Clinical Research and a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences (Psychiatry and Creativity) at
the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Institute of
Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente in Mexico City, where she founded and coordinated
the Unit for the Study and Development of Creativity. She was Visiting Scholar at the
Torrance Center for Creative Studies at the University of Georgia in 1999 and from
2001-2002, having the honor of being E. Paul Torrance's last student. From 2004-
2005, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University in the Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Chavez-Eakle is a LPC, NCC certified in
Washington DC and a Psychoanalytic Candidate at the Washington Center for
Psychoanalysis. She taught the graduate courses Creativity and Human Development
at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research and publications involve: (a) creativity,
personality and psychopathology, (b) functional brain images during creative
performance, (c) phenomenology and the creative process, (d) molecular genetic
variations associated with creativity, and (e) creativity and psychotherapy. She is also
a poet and prose writer. Dr. Chavez-Eakle has presented her research at
international forums including: the American Psychiatric Association, the Human
Genome Organization, the University of Liege, Belgium; the Institute of Neuroesthetics
and the University of California at Berkeley, the Torrance Lecture at the University of
Georgia, the National Institute of Psychiatry “Ramon de la Fuente” in México, the
University of Maine, and the European Commission, part of the Executive Branch of
the European Union. Dr. Chavez-Eakle currently serves at the Maryland State
Department of Education Council for Gifted and Talented.
Director
Dr. Chavez-Eakle studied Medicine and completed a Residency in Psychiatry, a M.Sc.
in Clinical Research and a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences (Psychiatry and Creativity) at
the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Institute of
Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente in Mexico City, where she founded and coordinated
the Unit for the Study and Development of Creativity. She was Visiting Scholar at the
Torrance Center for Creative Studies at the University of Georgia in 1999 and from
2001-2002, having the honor of being E. Paul Torrance's last student. From 2004-
2005, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University in the Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Chavez-Eakle is a LPC, NCC certified in
Washington DC and a Psychoanalytic Candidate at the Washington Center for
Psychoanalysis. She taught the graduate courses Creativity and Human Development
at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research and publications involve: (a) creativity,
personality and psychopathology, (b) functional brain images during creative
performance, (c) phenomenology and the creative process, (d) molecular genetic
variations associated with creativity, and (e) creativity and psychotherapy. She is also
a poet and prose writer. Dr. Chavez-Eakle has presented her research at
international forums including: the American Psychiatric Association, the Human
Genome Organization, the University of Liege, Belgium; the Institute of Neuroesthetics
and the University of California at Berkeley, the Torrance Lecture at the University of
Georgia, the National Institute of Psychiatry “Ramon de la Fuente” in México, the
University of Maine, and the European Commission, part of the Executive Branch of
the European Union. Dr. Chavez-Eakle currently serves at the Maryland State
Department of Education Council for Gifted and Talented.
5335 Wisconsin Ave. N.W., Suite 440
Washington, DC, 20015
(202) 243-0595
Washington, DC, 20015
(202) 243-0595
