Research Database
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
Return to Artistic Ritual: An Arts-Based Inquiry Into The Role of Reunion in Expressive Arts Therapy
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
Expressive Arts-based Activities and Gefühlsmonster Cards to Engage Children with their Key Emotions
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
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
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