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eMailAbout EGS Arts, Health and Society Division
Aristotle speaks of three kinds of knowing:
- Theoria (knowing by observing),
- Praxis (knowing by doing),
- Poiesis (knowing by making).
Our Programs seek to restore confidence in Poiesis, the knowing that comes from the human capacity to shape both self and world. Training and research at EGS are based on that capacity and encourage students to take responsibility for shaping their development as learners.
Modern life demands new ways for studies and research.
EGS is a non-profit organization that fullfills its requirements without state subsidies.
EGS works in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary way and supports the networking with other universities and institutes aiming to gain synergy through joint instructional and research activities.
EGS is committed to fundamental research in the health sector, psychotherapy, supervision, coaching and education, and is active in the research concerning effectiveness and long term consequences in art therapies.
EGS sets high ethical standards and works with scientific models and other established methods of learning.
Being with the arts is our way of being in the world.
EGS is closely connected to the phenomenological human sciences and an anthropological view.
EGS is committed to the spirit of the "liberal arts" and considers arts, philosophy and sciences as essentialy related to each other. The various realities of human existance are connected in the creative act.
EGS considers the human being as part of a higher totality who, in "being in the world" carries not only an individual and social responsibility, but also an ecological responsibility.
EGS views the human being as lingual being who, in opening to the "Here and Now" through the artistic act, through play and philosophical thinking, finds the possibility to constructively shape life in all ist multiplicity.
- Several EGS faculty and Affiliated Institute Partners - from left to right: Hannes Jahn, former Director of the EGS Coaching Program, Germany; Elizabeth McKim, Poet Laureate, EGS Artist in Residence, USA; Sandra Wortzel, Director of ISIS Southwest, USA; Greer Essex, Director of ISIS San Diego, USA; Paul Antze, Assoc. Prof. of Social Science (York University, Canada), EGS Core Faculty; Stephen K. Levine, Prof. Emeritus of Social Science (York University, Canada), Dean of the EGS Doctoral Program