Synchronicity and Intuition: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences and Inner Knowing

The London Arts-Based Research Centre (LABRC) invites scholars, artists, writers, poets, researchers, and practitioners to submit proposals for our upcoming conference, Synchronicity and Intuition: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences and Inner Knowing. This online event will delve into the vital roles intuition and synchronicity play in creative practice, inquiry, and epistemology.

Intuition—a deep, often inexplicable inner knowing—and synchronicity—the experience of meaningful coincidence—challenge linear thinking and invite more interconnected, holistic approaches to understanding. These phenomena have long guided artists and researchers toward insights that transcend rational deduction, offering moments of clarity, connection, and transformation that resist conventional explanation yet profoundly shape knowledge-making.

In arts-based research (ABR), intuition and synchronicity act as powerful generative forces. Drawing from Carl Jung’s concept of synchronicity and the rich traditions of ABR, this conference aims to foster dialogue across disciplines—psychology, literature, visual and performing arts, philosophy, spirituality, and the sciences—on how these experiences contribute to deeper understandings of creativity, relationality, and the self.

In an era dominated by data and logic, how do we make space for phenomena that elude rationality yet feel deeply true? How can we honour intuition and synchronicity as legitimate dimensions of knowledge and inquiry?

We welcome transdisciplinary contributions that explore these themes as experiential, methodological, or philosophical foundations within ABR and related fields.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

• Intuition in creative practice and artistic research
• Jungian and transpersonal approaches to synchronicity
• Dreamwork, archetypes, and symbolic inquiry in ABR
• Poetic inquiry, spontaneous knowing, and mythic imagination
• Embodied intuition, somatic awareness, and affective knowledge
• Autoethnographic encounters with synchronicity
• Spiritual or transpersonal dimensions of knowing
• Feminist, Indigenous, and decolonial perspectives on intuitive knowledge
• The politics of intuition and resistance to dominant paradigms
• Case studies of synchronicity in creative or research journeys
• Research-creation and intuitive methodologies
• Narrative, myth, and symbol as interpretive tools
• Cross-cultural understandings of intuition and synchronicity
• Scientific perspectives (e.g., neuroscience, quantum theory) on inner knowing
• Everyday mysticism and personal experiences of meaningful coincidence
• Synchronicity and intuition in relational, pedagogical, or decision-making contexts

We encourage submissions from individuals working across diverse disciplines and modalities, including (but not limited to) creative writing, visual arts, performance, psychology, education, spirituality, and qualitative inquiry.

The full conference programme will be announced following the proposal deadline, once all presenters have been selected.

Submission Guidelines: Please fill out this proposal form by July 01, 2025: https://forms.gle/U3xUaQ4oKnQCT4yx6