Doctoral Program in Expressive Arts: Therapy, Coaching and Consulting, Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding
The doctoral program in Expressive Arts combines two summer school residential trainings at EGS in Saas-Fee, leading to the CAGS Certificate of Advanced Post-Graduate Studies with individualized dissertation research done in the student's home country. The findings and results of the dissertation research must be presented in the third and fourth year of the program in a special “Ph.D. Colloquium I and II” at EGS in Saas-Fee. All EGS seminars, workshops and colloquia are conducted in English; dissertations can be written in English, but also in German, French or Spanish if suitable doctoral supervisors can be found.
The CAGS is designed as a self-sufficient unit. Students may choose to enroll in the CAGS without intending to go on to achieve the Ph.D. degree. However, for those students who wish to go on to achieve the Ph.D., the successful completion of the CAGS is a prerequisite for advancement to Doctoral Candidacy and the writing of the Dissertation.
The Doctoral Program after the CAGS consists of two parts:
Qualifying Phase
Here the student completes the requirements and writes a Qualifying Paper. If it is accepted, the student can proceed to Doctoral Candidacy.
Candidacy Phase
The student establishes their Doctoral Committee and writes their Dissertation with the help of their Senior Advisor. The Doctoral Committee must approve the Dissertation Proposal.
When the Dissertation is completed and accepted by the Committee, the Doctoral Examination and Defense will take place. Upon successful completion of the Doctoral Defense, the student will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). The degree will be formally conferred during the Summer school subsequent upon the completion of the Defense. Students are encouraged to attend the Ceremony of Conferral of the Degree and celebrate the occasion.
 | DOCTORAL_PROGRAM_IN_EXPRESSIVE_ARTS.pdf This is the handbook for the Doctoral program of the Arts, Health and Society Division of EGS. CAGS and further stages. | 173 K |
| This is the Application form for the CAGS and the Doctoral program at EGS | 45 K |
Faculty in the Ph.D program
| Paul Antze | Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Science, York University, Toronto, Canada | |
| Sally Atkins | Ed.D., Professor of Human Development & Psychological Counseling, Appalachian State University, USA | |
| Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt | Ph.D., Professor, Director of the Institute for Music Therapy, Graduate School of Music and Theater, Hamburg, Germany | |
| Roy P. Fairfield | Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, The Graduate School of America and Union Institute, USA | |
| Margo N. Fuchs-Knill | Ph.D., Professor, Dean of Masters Studies, Division of Arts, Health and Society, EGS, Switzerland | |
| Paolo J. Knill | Dr. h.c., Ph.D., Provost EGS, Professor Emeritus, Lesley Univeristy, Cambridge, MA, USA | |
| Jürgen Kriz | Ph.D., Professor, University of Osnabrück, Germany | |
| Ellen Levine | MSW, Ph.D., ATR-BC, REAT | |
| Stephen K. Levine | Ph.D., D.S.Sc., Vice-Provost and Dean of Doctoral Studies, Division of Arts, Health and Society at EGS, Switzerland, Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto, Canada | |
| Karel Macha | Ph.D., D.S.Sc., Professor, Karls Universität, Prague, The Czech Republic, and Gustav-Siewerth-Academic, Weilheim, FRG | |
| Wolfgang Mastnak | Dr. phil., Dr. rer. nat., Dr. paed., University of Potsdam, Germany | |
| Sherry Penn | Ph.D., Professor, Union Institute Graduate School, USA | |
| Sophia Reinders | Ph.D., MFT, Adjunct Professor and Doctoral Advisor at California Institute of Integral Studies, CIIS | |
| Wolfgang Schirmacher | Ph.D., Professor, Program Director, Division of Media and Communication at EGS, Switzerland | |
| Mónica Sorín | Ph.D., Professor and Co-Director of the Program in Transdisciplinary Art Therapy and Human Development, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Peter Wanzenried | Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich. Studienleiter ISIS Switzerland |
