Your RJ & the Arts Training Team
Sook Kyoung Kwon
Expressive Arts Therapist, Theater/Performing Artist, Educator & Restorative Justice Practitioner
Sook Kyoung specializes in utilizing creative interventions to help people overcome challenges and find healing. Her work relies heavily on Trauma-informed care, Arts-based process and Restorative practice. Sook Kyoung studied Theology(BA) and Christian Education and Counseling(Th.M) at Yonsei University in Korea. She holds an MA in Expressive Arts Therapy from European Graduate School.
She is a co-founder of The Creatives PATCH: Play and Arts Tools for Change and Healing and currently serves as a counselor at Elim Counseling Center for Family and Community (ElimCCFC.org). Sook Kyoung has been a trainer/facilitator for NCRC since 2018. Sook Kyoung strongly believes in the power of play and arts to heal people, restore relationships and build and support communities. She is passionate about bringing expressive arts and training programs to diverse communities including incarcerated, immigrants, refugees, homeless, families of special needs children.
As an active theater artist, her work incorporates the Theater of the Oppressed and Playback Theater to bring people together to share their stories and find healing and change.
Jamie Harris Rosen
Visual Artist, Peacebuilder, Educator & Expressive Arts therapist
Jamie holds a BA in Psychology and Studio Art, a Doctorate of Jurisprudence, and a MA in Expressive Arts Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding. For the past decade, she has utilized artistic and therapeutic modalities to help her diverse clients navigate conflict, build community and cultivate long-term resilience and well-being.
Jamie is co-founder of The Creatives PATCH (TheCreativesPatch.com), an organization that synthesizes restorative justice, somatics, trauma-informed care and expressive arts therapy into a community-based healing model.
Jamie is passionate about harnessing innate creativity as a tool for social and personal transformation and resilience. In her facilitation and work as a therapist, Jamie leverages intermodal arts-based prompts and reflection to help her clients expand their emotional and sensory intelligence, disrupt routine behavior and thinking, and move them closer to their desired goals. She has worked with diverse individuals and groups through Family Caregiver Relief, The Creatives PATCH, the National Conflict Resolution Center, Veterans Village, The Monarch School, San Diego Unified School District, Autism Tree Project Foundation, and the University of California San Diego.
