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All Theses / Dissertations

2020

Cultivating a Rhythm of Care: an Expressive Arts Approach to Sustaining Wellbeing While Working in a Context of Trauma 

Expressive Arts, Trauma, Wellbeing, Rhythm of Care, Repetition, Poiesis, Polyvagal theory, Secondary Trauma, Resilience, Salutogenesis

2020

Women's Selfcare and Healing Practices Through Textile Arts

Women, textile arts, women and political activism, women's mental health, selfceare, women empowerment, anxiety, depression, women's issues, women's rights

2019

Gullah-Geechee, polyrhythm, MDRAST, cosmology, epistemology, agency, quantum, chaos, syncopation, improvisation, justice, chirality

2019

Critical Theory, White Fragility, Anti-Oppression, Power, Privilege, Resource Orientation, Intersectionality, Arts-Based Research, Phenomenology

2019

aesthetic feedback, aesthetic response, aesthetic responsibility, aesthetic relationship, documentation, expressive arts therapy, therapy

2019

Autism, Expressive Arts Therapy, Family, Inner Resources, Mixed Methodology, Play, Parent and Child Relationship, People with Disability, Resource-Oriented, Richo’s Five A’s, Safety, Therapeutic relationship

2019

Trauma, Expressive Art therapy, Dream, Images and Range of Play

2019

trauma, psychic entropy, psychic energy, arts-based research, archetypal phenomenology, embodied learning, imagination, soul-informed

2019

mindfulness, attunement, becoming, vulnerability, self-discovery, self-care, flow, non-attachment, the emergent, surrender, group process

2019

play, intermodal, flow, decenter, non-directive, deep play, autotelic personality, participatory observation, art-based research

2019

dynamical systems, embodied cognition, phenomenology, autism, thelen, greenspan, buber, husserl

2019

Movement-based Inquiry, Dance, Expression, Improvisation, Art, Aspect, Facilitation

2019

Expressive Arts, Inner Child, Inner Resources

2019

Embodiment, Somatics, Expressive Arts

2019

Decentering, Play Range, Tansitional Space, Identity, Beliefs, Hong Kong

2019

studio art, textile, soma, somatic, embodiment, artists, inquiry, research, group work, collective intelligence

2019

LGBT, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, gender, sexuality, identity, embodiment, Nepal, mask, expressive arts therapy

2019

Material, modalities of imagination, polyaesthetics theory

2019

poiesis, resource-orientation, low skill/high sensitivity, education, social and emotional learning, a/r/tography

2019

Holistic, Expressive Arts Therapy, Nature, Health and Wellness, Mental Health, Health Care Delivery, Community

2019

Play-range, Improvisation/De-center, Therapeutic Presence, Restrictions, Imprisonment, Reciprocity, Space of Third

2019

Word play, movement, music, depression, loss, suicide, death, grief, bereavement, presence, essence, resonance, autoethnography, arts-based research

2019

Women’s Empowerment, Recovery, Expressive Arts Therapy

2019

veterans, recovery, addiction, coping, expressive arts therapy, unknown

2019

Silence EXA Ground Arts

2019

women changemakers, educators, community leaders, overcoming stress, burnout and empathy fatigue, surrendering control, belonging, resilience

2019

Women, textile arts, women and political activism, women's mental health, selfceare, women empowerment, anxiety, depression, women's issues, women's rights

2018

Body, Movement, Body Awareness, Movement Quality, Expressive Arts, Bridge, Meaning, Pain

2018

Recovery-oriented practice, People in recovery, Puppetry

2018

space and therapy, therapeutic environment, kinaesthetic senses, learning styles

2018

identity, belonging, grief, Third Culture Kids, Adult Third Culture Kids, Global Nomads, movement, storytelling, visual arts, community

2018

circle, love and fear, mandalas

2018

biography, theater, biographical theater, jobintegration, expressive arts in social work

2018

education, art-based research. action-research, grounded theory, constructivism, teaching, learning theory, resonance, multiple intelligences

2018

beauty, imagination, the senses, aesthetic response, heuristic, auto-ethnographic, story, moment, experience, presence, authenticity, life, relationships, truth, equanimity

2018

suicide, depression, dialoguing with images,persona and shadow, darker sides, trust the process, chaos

2018

Expressive Arts, Sport, Play, Safe Spaces, Ritual, Play Range, Poverty, Urbanization, belonging, social cohesion, Salutogenesis, theory of change

2018

existence, space, Poiesis, meaning-making, humanistic geography

2018

stress, well being, expressive arts, poiesis, decentering, low skills high sensitivity, arts-based research, here and now, improvisation, creating together, creativity, imagination, mindfulness

2018

feminine body, creative potential, archetypal forces, endometriosis, adenomyosis, delightful, transformative anger, nature, new feminine identity

2018

The Human Revolution

2018

music, communication, cultures, community, drumming, ghana

2018

life journey, mindfulness, yoga, self-practice, self-care, gateway, ancient Eastern wisdom, an intelligence of wisdom, life living, body, mind and spirit in yoga, mindfulness is a base, yoga is the practice of body and mind work, phenomenon emergence, her

2018

Embodiment, historical, intergenerational trauma, Jewish Holocaust, Black slavery, autoethnography, epigenetics, expressive arts therapy, autopoiesis

2018

Imaginative game, thumbnails, collective identity, complementary opposites, mutual support, joy, Andean worldview, compose equilibrium images, dialogic relation, acknowledgment

2018

Expressive Arts therapy, process, phenomenology, duality, polarity, body, symptoms, disease, presence

2018

Ritual; Reunion, Arts, Expressive Arts, Arts-based Research

2018

growth, client and therapist, expressive arts therapy

2018

Forum theatre. Social integration. Refugees and immigrants. Ethnic and religious diversity. Sense of belonging

2018

Aesthetics of silence, deep ecology, poetic ecology, opioid crisis, eco-aesthetics, EXA

2018

Spiritual Practice, Retreat, Meditation, Music, Prayer, Community Song, Hermitage, Solitude, Liminality, Auto-Ethnography, Phenomenology

2018

circle

2018

Expressive Arts, Adolescents, School Counselling

2017

mental health, Occupational Therapy, Expressiv Arts Therapy, arts and crafts

2017

Poiesis, Christianity, Creator, creation, artist, suffering, limitations, art making process, eating disorders.

2017

Artist-aspect of becoming an artist and therapist-contact improvisation-creative process-being

2017

play, older age women, intermodality, decentering, crystallization, metaphor, elements of the arts, universe, interconnectedness

2017

Dreams, nightmares, artist, creativity, imagination, inspiration, theories, therapies, methodology, quantitative, qualitative, heuristic, survey, data

2017

Dreams, Therapy, Expressive, Arts, Dreamwork, Session, Dialogue, Conscious, Subconscious, Communication, Embody, Perspectives, Framework

2017

Autism early childhood educators presence multilevel awareness developing language social skills qualities being meltdown sensory integration

2017

aesthetics, school readiness, prekindergarten, play and development, arts in early childhood, intermodal, phenomenology, low skill, high sensitivity

2017

English: expressive arts, spielraum, improvisation, restorative circles, communitas, peacebuilding, conflict transformation, homless students, poverty

2017

Self-care, Coping skill, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Grief process, Metaphor, Self-awareness, Art as lifestyle, Cultural sensitivity

2017

Expressive Arts Dark Feminine Soul Characters Felt Sense Authoring Oneself Creativity

2017

emotional expression, Expressive Arts Therapy, children, engage, key emotions, expressive arts-based activities, Gefühlsmonster cards

2017

autism, therapeutic relationship, empathy , presence , trust

2017

English: Imagination, Intermodal transfer, embodiment, expressive movement, dialogue, metaphor, emergence, resourcing, interplay, architecture, cancer, healing

2017

wounds intelligent-feelings expose exhibit integration imaginary friends

2017

Conflict transformation Peacebuilding Northern Ireland trauma art-process sensitising

2017

2017

arts-based research, process, phenomenology, architecture of a session, lived body, lived space, awareness, presence, re-centering, self-care

2017

expressive arts therapy, digital literacy, digital collaboration, virtual landscapes, cyber-poiesis, bricolage, digital comics, poetic nomad

2017

Peace, Education, Sustainability, Expressive Arts

2017

2017

Hip-Hop, Empowerment, Arts-based, Intermodal Arts Modality, Validation

2017

poiesis, liminality, anti-racism/decolonising theory, international, cross-cultural journey, Indigenous peoples, autoethnography, narrative inquiry

2017

Hip-Hop, Empowerment, Arts-based, Intermodal Arts Modality, Validation

2017

Expressive Arts Therapy, emotional consequences in women, gender – based micro violence, empowerment of women

2016

wonder, art, inquiry, phenomenology of perceptions

2016

wonder, art, intransition, rites of passage, postmodernism, capitalism, ecofeminism, cyclical metaphor, identity, emptiness, the emergentquiry, phenomenology of perceptions

2016

wonder, art, intransition, rites of passage, postmodernism, capitalism, ecofeminism, cyclical metaphor, identity, emptiness, the emergentquiry, phenomenology of perceptions

2016

Caring for Ourselves: Expressive Arts and the Well-being of the Helper

self-care, well-being

2016

peace, conflict, narrative, therapy, transformation, art, cross cultural, privilege, special needs, prison, human trafficking, empathy, justice, do no harm practices, colonization

2016

elders, complex care home, loneliness, boredom, helplessness, dementia, depression, aging, art therapy, and expressive arts therapy

2016

change of perspective, decentering, empathy, dialogue, inclusion

2016

embodiment, embodied presence, dance, therapist training, performance, somatic awareness

2016

nature, ecoaesthetics, land art with children

2016

self, self care, disadvantage mothers hong kong ex

2016

grief, loss, skin-ego, embodied grief, cultural hauntings

2016

therapeutic aesthetics, nourishment, community, high risk/trauma populations, therapeutic relationship, aliveness

2015

theatre, theater process, actor, acting, ritual, rituality director, vulnerability, encounter, bonding, purpose, safe environment

2015

trauma, movement, wearable art, body, self awareness, social action, community

2015

soul sisters, co-mentorship, artistic collaboration, integration of words and visual art, poiesis, hestia, kairos, installation art, community art

2015

war trauma, memory, palestinian children

2015

trauma, movement, wearable art, body, self awareness, sociart, belonging, comfort, community, expressive arts, familiarity, home, ritual, safetyal action, community

2015

art, belonging, comfort, community, expressive arts, familiarity, home, ritual, safety

2015

improvisational theatre, journaling, salutogenesis, play, arts-based research

2015

disability, social model of disability, salutogenesis, resilience, social ecology of resilience, shadow puppet play, story, caregiver, family

2015

education, poiesis, nurturing creativity, arts-based research, heuristic research, exa classroom, music, non-directive, student teacher relationship, classroom management, respect

2015

case study, recovery, recovering, movement, trust the process, presence, woman

2015

ritual, rites of passage, liminality

2015

culture shock, international interns, identity, intercultural transitions

2015

imagination, resilience, myth, storytelling, companion image, emergent, post modern, salutogenesis

2015

birth trauma, c-section recovery, art as resource

2015

dependences, addictions, women, elements of addiccion as art materials, theories from biological, psychological, archetypal sustrata

2015

children with cancer, medical art therapy, play therapy, love, clinical, letter writing

2015

voice, singing, vocal training, phenomenon, universal-natural forces, physiology, anatomy, development of the voice and in different phases of life

2015

women, trauma, time-limited framework, qualitative, purposive snowball sample, large city in canada, workshop, individual session

2015

imagination, a sense of agency, japanese women

2014

yoga, expressive arts

2014

body image, women, groups, intermodal, feminist, self inquiry, resourcing, soul work

2014

relavence of play in lived experience of expressive arts therapists

2014

autism, stimulatory behavior, non-hierarchical approach, teaching, improvisation, theatre, range of play, dramatic play, child

2014

culture shock, iranian imigrants, iranian women

2014

developmental disability, bipolar disorder, dual diagnosis, feminism, phenomenology, low skill high sensitivity, aesthetic attractors

2014

cycle, spiral, connection, arts as companions

2014

the concept of dedication or devotion

2014

intermodal transfer, dialogue with the image, focusing, felt sense, mindfulness, meditation, movement, image making, visual art process, workshop method, ways of knowing through art, intuitive art

2014

play, uncertainty, surprise, flow

2014

teaching-learning-arrangement; art analogy; art-oriented reflection; situated learning; didactic of facilitation; diversity competence; students mobility

2014

organisational theory, economic aesthetics, designing, interventions, decentering, consultation/project-phases, self organisation, resource orientation, solution focus, evaluation, transfer, case studies

2014

power of imagination, dreams

2014

first bridge, bridging process, imagination, reality, alternative world experience, play

2014

oral history, lullabies, communitas, empathy, resilience, salutogenesis

2014

imagination, reality, psychology, expressive arts therapy, case study, phenomenology, creativity

2014

imagination, transformation

2014

immigrant children home drawings versus home drawings of local children

2014

timeless moments

2013

health challenges, healthcare settings, hope, bauty, play, imagination

2013

Art in Transition: How Expressive Arts can strengthen civil society in post-Soviet Moldova

health challenges, healthcare settings, hope, bauty, play, imagination

2013

language, bridge, art-making, meaning making, indigenous, youth, nature, story, therapeutic letters, reconciliation, northern canada, cancer

2013

concept of beauty

2013

photography

2013

personal growth, sensorial experiences, frames

2013

metaphor, frame, ritual, intermodal transfer, decenterin, low skill high sensitivity

2013

imagination, low skills high sensitivity

2013

body sculptures, practical process of sculpturing, body sculpture test

2013

digital media, digital workshops, play, sensitization

2013

peacebuilding evaluation

2013

personal growth, mental health

2013

historical, freedom of being, human growth, development, natural beat of body

2013

expressive arts therapy as a bridge from grieving in isolation to community connection

2013

therapist and client as co-players

2012

appreciation, fundament for working, act of humanity

2012

art as meaning

2012

story creation, felting wool, therapeutic letters, reflective writing

2012

phenomenological heuristic research, expressive arts therapy, engagement, image-making, image-responding, shifts in perspective

2012

sri lanka, community healing, loss, death, grief, mourning, heartbreak, abuse, discrimination, imprisonment

2012

elementary school, healthy relationship to food, playte metod

2012

photography, light photo performance, self portrait

2012

decentering with teams, fairplay, co-creation

2012

self-inquiry, creative self-investigation, self-discovery, lacan, winnicott

2012

self-inquiry, creative self-investigation, self-discovery, lacan, winnicott

2012

human procreation, human inheritance, ancestors, unsuspected surprise, family tree, artwork

2012

trauma, ptsd, healing, story telling, theater, therapy, love, victims, war, playfulness, mindfulness, authenticity

2012

use of touch, children and youth, developmental delays, dual diagnosis

2012

artistic developmental processes, inspiration, alchemistic power of transformation, receptive art therapy, communication of art

2012

turning point, handling, conversion

2011

image creation, imagination, shamanic practices, winnicott, seniors, addicted youth, bullied children

2011

developing therapist, music, movement, trauma

2011

education, pedagogy, children, public school

2011

metaphor of butterfly transformation, support tool, guide, therapeutic work

2011

children with cancer, tanzania, hospital, health, coexistence of joy and suffering

2011

storytelling, creative writing

2011

autism, creative writing, case study

2011

masks, symbol, rituals, transition, metamorphosis, transformation, play, alternative world

2011

affect regulation, repair, mature, healing process, ensouled other

2011

theatre practices, theatre practitioner, theater, repurpose, somatic, spoken voice, teaching theatre professionals

2011

language, writer

2011

doll making, chaos theory, healing process

2011

self, identity, self-portraiture, neutral mask

2010

mentally ill parents, space for their children

2010

mentally ill parents, space for their children

2010

college art students, civic engagement, poiesis

2010

sexually abused children, judged and forgotten mothers

2010

youth, adolescents, jean piaget, career consultancy

2010

briefe, fragen, antworten, austausch

2010

bodymind totality, body’s wisdom

2010

movement and dance-based expressive arts therapy

2010

artistic project, expressive modalities, gesamtkunstwerk, community, community art

2010

driving force, fire, enthusiasm, artistic expression

2010

the body and its tools, space and the body, the in-between, the third

2010

evolution of the species, motor coordination, expressive capacities, children, psychomotricity

2010

evolution of art, primitive societies, sacredness of decentering, crystallisation, polyaesthetics, intermodal transfer

2010

serendipity, synchronicity, effect of accident, art of surprise, inspiration of duende

2010

progressive muscular dystrophy, therapy sessions, physically handicapped, chaos, fear, search for a new order

2010

eco-psychology, mental health, nature, community context

2010

psychodrama and the art and resource-oriented work

2010

change, engouraging proecesses of change through supervision and counselling

2009

ritual, alcohol recovery, theater

2009

shamanism, healing, soul, ritual

2009

expressive arts and christian worship

2009

phenomenology, numinous, soul, trauma, limina

2009

social change, hiv/aids, dialogical action theory, phenomenological and heuristic perspective

2009

case study, creative dance residency, kindergarten, first grade classes

2009

soul suffering, cancer, life as a process of art

2009

metaphors, poetics, narrative, cultural and linguistic context

2009

home, expatriate, new identity, new country

2009

Kunst orientiertDie Gestaltung zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen

2009

self-portraiture, face, image, reflection in a mirror, identity

2009

play, alice’s adventures in wonderland, clowning, storytelling

2009

public elementary school, new ways of communication and work-processes

2009

elders, play, dementia, residential care

2008

bodyawareness, selfperception, adolescents

2008

parenthood, parent’s navigation

2008

human learning and growth, school, community

2008

children potential, play, therapy

2008

materials, senses, low skill high sensitivity, decentering, state of mind, change

2008

therapy, space, philosophy

2008

expatriate, international assignment, culture shock, global organizations, heimat, adjustment process

2008

analysis of data individual case studies research expressive arts oriented psychotherapy intervention concept theoretical change causal correlations between changes of patient and intervention of the psychotherapist

2008

intermodal decentering, artistic solution, supervision

2008

cooperation, business, doors, coaching, team development

2007

communication, consulting, analysis transaction, systemic coaching

2007

community, epilepsy, deaf or hard of hearing

2007

coaching, spencer brown, substitution, model, intermodal, poiesis, theoria, praxis

2007

nature, addicted clients, language as an agent between human and nature, haikus, wilderness

2007

happiness, positive psychology

2007

humor, liability, awareness, sensitivity

2007

expressive arts therapy, mask work, creative process, adolescent psychiatry, naamiot

2007

play through the arts, play as decentering, spielraum

2007

ritual, performance, transformation, liminality, dance, play, enchantment, salutogenese, shamanism

2007

yodelling, tradition, appenzell, folkmusic, ruguusseli, cultural, rituals, traditional music

2007

physiotherapy, coaching, interview, solution oriented approach, solution focus

2006

therapeutic relationship, heidegger, interpersonal contact

2006

buber, petersen, rogers, relationship between client and artwork, hospitalized children, mentally handicapped brain injured, elderly people

2006

buber, petersen, rogers, relationship between client and artwork, hospitalized children, mentally handicapped brain injured, elderly people

2006

creative confidence, dada, art brut

2006

essential, meditation

2006

opposites, nature, mind, grenzgestaltung, third space, schiller

2006

 flow, art process, coaching process, motivational theory

2006

brain, research, learning design

2006

education, homeless, narrative inquiry, school community

2006

crisis intervention, psychiatric services, mental or social crises

2006

chaos theory autopoiesis eating disorders

2006

creation, children, myths, jung’s theory, spiritual

2006

leading in dance improvisation, performance-art

2006

drugs, alcohol, addiction, eros, homeless veterans

2006

expression through the body, movement, dance, theatre

2006

tension, relaxation, burnout

2006

process of change, salutogenetic organization, management of social organization, joseph beuys

2006

modes of perceiving, remembering, imagining, concepts of self

2006

Intermodales Arbeiten in der Tanz- und Ausdruckstherapie. Ein Handbuch für Studentinnen und Lehrerinnen

dance therapy

2006

dialogical painting for group finding, performance for community integration, female russian migrants, long-term unemployed women

2006

management- and organizational development, communication, work flow, management in change

2006

argentine tango, teaching social partner dancing

2006

places, spaces, stimulation, living space, environment, joseph beuys

2006

land art, children, behavioural disorders, residential school

2006

resilience, joy, pleasure, play, authentic creativity

2006

sound healing, physiology of hearing

2006

burnout, loss of meaning, antonovsky, sense of coherence

2006

training, mental hospitals, visual arts, mexicanidad

2006

children, communication skills, classroom setting, educational setting

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