Expressive Arts acts as a bridge between the infinite possibility of imagination and the actuality of the everyday reality. By applying and advancing the methodology and philosophical foundations of Expressive Arts into areas of human service organizations, profit and non-profit institutions, business and corporate management, and educational institutions, intermodal methods and practice provide effective, creative, and solution-oriented counsel. This Masters Program is ideal for professionals wishing to enhance their skills in leadership and communication, supervision, team-building, process accompaniment, crisis intervention and coaching.
Over the course of three years, students will learn the principles and practices of intermodal expressive arts for the purpose of therapy, earning a Master of Arts in Expressive Arts Coaching and Consulting. Students will spend three summers in residence in Saas Fee, Switzerland. Classes are a mixture of lecture and theory, practice and small-group sessions, art-making through different modalities and mediums, and awareness techniques through body movement.
During the first summer session in residence, the student will study the Interdisciplinary Approach (ITC-P) through the principles and practices of intermodal expressive arts coaching and consulting, learning the social and developmental issues from a systemic perspective, receive advanced training and methodology of practice, and mastering the language and discourse in expressive arts coaching and consulting.
The second year of summer school provides an in depth look at the philosophical and aesthetic foundations (ITC-D) through intermodality, advanced training and theoretical foundations, study of body and movement in expressive arts coaching and consulting, understanding the Process of Change, and learning institutional characteristics of consulting organizations.
Throughout the first two years, students are required to complete a field based internship (Module P), theoretical foundation and research module (Module F), and an introductory module satisfied by Intermodal Expressive Arts (Module K), Digital Arts and Media (ITS-M), or an approved module through cooperating institutions.
During the third summer session in residence, students will finish their degree with Final Examination and Graduation (Module IT-3), the student will complete oral and written exams on the principles and practices of intermodal expressive arts coaching through a critical inquiry into a variety of schools and the polyaesthetics and intermodal method. Finally, students will present an Oral Defense of their Master Thesis.