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Industry	Education
Location	New York, NY, United States
Introduction	Over the past 40 years, Dr. Susan Mintz-Bello has passionately taught, researched, written about, and created The I.am.I™ Spontaneous Painting Process. It is a labor of love. Susan received her PhD in Expressive Therapy and The Psychology of Art from the Union Institute, Cinn., Ohio, her M.A. in Humanistic Psychology from California State College, Sonoma, and her B.A. in Education and History from New York University. She is a certified Biodanza facilitator, group psychoanalyst, licensed art therapist, and spiritual activist. She initiated her studies and research into the potentials of human consciousness from 1971 - 1974 in India, studying Vipassana meditation, yoga, Buddhism, and Hinduism. During these years of and her spiritual journey she lived with Tibetan refugees in Northern India and Nepal learning carpet weaving. From 1980 until 1985 she lived in Indonesia and Singapore and studied painting. She founded the International Women's Artist Association of Singapore and participated in various group exhibits with other members of this association. In 1985 - 2000 she lived in Brasília, Brazil developing her work in Art Therapy.