For more than 25 years he has led psychotherapy workshops
on - visualization, healing emotional trauma through regressive
therapies, mind/body integration, multiple personality,
ego state therapy, primal therapy, art therapy, prenatal
parenting and, working with pre and prenatal issues through
art. In the arts he has lead workshops on stone sculpting,
sculpting in clay, model making, cement fondue casting,
resin mould making, plaster mould making, wood working,
wood carving, and poetry.
Dr. Irving has been exhibiting and selling sculpture in
a wide variety of mediums for more than 30 years. His stone
and bronze sculptures are in private and corporate collections
and have been exhibited internationally.
A vision that art and cultural activities can bring about
meaningful understanding and effect change personally and
socially guides the focused determination of Sculptor/Psychotherapist,
Michael C. Irving, Ph.D.
The Child Abuse Survivor Monument was conceived by Dr.
Irving in 1990 as a collaborative social action arts project
to acknowledge and validate survivors of child abuse. For
nearly two decades Dr. Irving and his wife Cheryl provided
lead roles in the Child Abuse Survivor Monument projet.
Hundreds of survivors and community volunteers have been
actively involved in carrying out the project.
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Dr. Irving
