Sybil St. Claire, MFA
Founder
Advancing human flourishing through the expressive arts and applied positive psychology.
❄️Creative Wellbeing Consultant
❄️Expressive Arts Facilitator
❄️Applied Positive Psychology Practitioner
❄️Author, Creative Wellbeing:
A Journey into the Heart of Human Flourishing
❄️Professor of Theatre | Senior Lecturer Emerita
(Arts, Wellbeing, & Social Change)
Each of us carries a deep remembering.
Through creativity, it awakens, guiding us toward our own light, medicine, and flourishing.
I invite you to rediscover the creative wisdom already alive within you.
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With over three decades of experience weaving the arts into transformational experiences, I now serve as a Creative Wellbeing Consultant working at the intersection of the expressive arts, applied positive psychology, neuroscience, and educational best practices.
I served as the first Program Coordinator for Arts in Medicine at Shands Hospital/University of Florida in the 1990s, which sparked a lifelong devotion in me for arts and wellbeing.
I spent over 20 years of my academic career at the University of Central Florida as a Professor of Theatre. There, I co-created one of the nation’s only MFAs in Theatre for Young Audiences, developed beloved interdisciplinary honors courses such as Thrive, Creative Processes, and Theatre for Social Change, and created innovative, award-winning arts and wellbeing projects and programming.
My work as an applied arts practitioner has taken me around the world (from teaching for Semester at Sea to living off the grid in developing countries), always centering creativity and the arts as a vehicle for healing, connection, and positive social change. I’ve worked with first responders, trauma survivors, hospitals, the LGBTQ+ community, children facing life-shortening illnesses, elders, people with aphasia, law enforcement, places of worship, summer camps, universities, the hearing impaired, college students, and many more.
At the heart of my work is a simple belief - within each of us lives a well of creative wisdom, an inner medicine and light capable of guiding us toward healing, connection, and human flourishing.
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I help people flourish through creative expression, awakening resilience, creativity, connection, and the wisdom within.
I also…
🌀Train facilitators (certification offered)
🌀Offer playshops (TBA)
🌀Create and offer curricula and expressive arts sessions
🌀Integrate positive psychology. (The study of human flourishing)
🌀Provide consultation to individuals, groups, and organizations wishing to offer and/or integrate Creative Wellbeing
🌀Offer keynotes and conference presentations
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✧Women Making History
✧Excellence in Undergraduate Education
✧Outstanding Professor of the Year
✧Excellence in Academic Partnerships
✧Pabst-Steinmetz Innovation in Arts & Wellness
In Other’s Words…
“Sybil is undoubtedly the most empowering, engaging, and compassionate professor I have ever had the privilege of knowing. Her transformative support and wisdom changed my life.”
“Sybil is the greatest educator I have ever had the privilege of working with. She is innovative, empathetic, and creates safe spaces wherever she goes.”
“Sybil St. Claire is an archetypal helper, a person who has devoted their life to the pursuit of helping others realize wellbeing and true happiness.”
“Thrive is a life-changing, eye-opening experience that reaches beyond the classroom.”
“Delivered with compassion and intention, this essential program (Thrive) helps discover and unlock your potential.”
“The world without a Sybil St. Claire won’t be one I’ll know from here, and that comes with a great and fearsome responsibility, to boldly go into a crumbling world and slowly put it back together, one smile, one word of encouragement, one moment of compassion at a time.”
“Being Sybil’s student changed my life for the better. Her ability to connect with all sorts of different human beings and bring the best out of them is second to none. Her mindfulness, leadership, and compassion make the education system a better place.”
“This course (Thrive) is like giving glasses to someone who didn’t know their vision was limited.””
“Sybil St. Claire represents to me exactly the kind of far-reaching leadership that our academic and community environments have such need of.”
“When I attended Sybil’s Theatre for Social Change course at UCF, my life was changed. I owe everything I am as a researcher, compassionate human, and thoughtful academic, to her tutelage. ”
“I am a better version of myself every day for knowing Sybil and learning with her.”
“Any student or professional in the arts would be lucky to spend time with Sybil St. Claire.”
“Sybil is a dynamic, caring, and inspiring mentor who exemplifies the spirit of excellence in education”
“Without a doubt, Sybil St. Claire is the most impactful educator to ever enter my life.”
“As a veteran Professor of Education, I find her way in to be exceptionally impactful and thus exceedingly valuable. ”
“Anyone working with Sybil will be in for a treat.”
“Thrive inspired unprecedented personal growth during one of the most critical periods of my life.”
“Incredible writer of original work and amazing script doctor.”
“Sybil St. Claire, colleague extraordinaire! Leadership, inspiration, and always innovation to meet the moment.”
Reach Out
I offer consultations, curricula, certificate trainings, licensing, keynotes, podcasts, and conference weavings (interactive openings and closings). I craft immersive and meaningful experiences - held with care - in virtual spaces.
Let’s bring Creative Wellbeing into your university, wellness retreat, conference, summer camp, workplace, parenting circle, hospital, place of worship, or wherever your vision leads.
It’s not about being good at art,
it’s about art being good for you.
©2025 Sybil St. Claire | Creative Wellbeing™
