AHS Research Database Overview2016A Book of Wonderswonder, art, inquiry, phenomenology of perceptions2016A New Ecology of TransitioningCycling Through Disintegration, Emptiness and Re-emergence of IdentityTransition, rites of passage, postmodernism, capitalism, ecofeminism, cyclical metaphor, identity, emptiness, the emergent2016Beauty As Intervention How A Personal Art Practice Supports The Expressive Arts Therapist's Work With Othersbeauty as intervention, aesthetics, longing, addiction, personal practice2016Caring for OurselvesExpressive Arts and the Well-being of the HelperSelf-care, well-being2016Contextualizing Narratives of Conflict and PeaceHonouring Marginalized Experience Through the Examination of Self and Expressive Arts Practices.Peace, Conflict, Narrative, Therapy, Transformation, Art, Cross Cultural, Privilege, Special Needs, Prison, Human Trafficking, Empathy, Justice, Do No Harm Practices, Colonization2016Finding Words Through ArtThe Effectiveness of Art Therapy with Mentally, Physically, and Emotionally Challenged Elders in Complex Care HomeElders, Complex Care Home, Loneliness, Boredom, Helplessness, Dementia, Depression, Aging, Art Therapy, and Expressive Arts Therapy2016From the change of perspective to a succeeding dialogueA condition for the inclusionChange of Perspective, Decentering, Empathy, Dialogue, Inclusion2016Moving into Embodied Presence Exploring Embodiment through Dance-Based Research with Therapists-in-Trainingembodiment, embodied presence, dance, therapist training, performance, somatic awareness2016Nature Focused Expressive Arts Therapy with ChildrenNature, Ecoaesthetics, Land Art with Children2016Taking Leave of Our Senses Ruminations on Grief and Comprehending the IncomprehensibleGrief, Loss, Skin-Ego, Embodied Grief, Cultural Hauntings2016This architecture is soft, moves like water, moves like musicAn ongoing exploration of therapeutic aesthetics and nourishmenttherapeutic aesthetics, nourishment, community, high risk/trauma populations, therapeutic relationship, aliveness2015Backstage: other considerations of the theatrical firetheatre, theater process, actor, acting, ritual, rituality director, vulnerability, encounter, bonding, purpose, safe environment2015Being At Home in the Body Creating Wearable Art to Move in the Worldtrauma, movement, wearable art, body, self awareness, social action, community2015Building Shelters of Belonging and TrustGiving Form to a Soul Sister Connection Through the Rituals of Art-Making, Table-Setting and Nest-MakingSoul sisters, co-mentorship, artistic collaboration, integration of words and visual art, poiesis, Hestia, Kairos, installation art, community art2015Children of the IntifadaWhat is the role of the Expressive Arts with children living under occupation?War Trauma, Memory, Palestinian Children2015Fierce PresenceSensing Duende in Three Research Settings Through the Lens of Expressive Arts Therapyduende, flamenco, phenomenology, arts-based research, auto-ethnography, ethics, resistance2015Fun at Work Improvisational Theatre as Expressive Arts ModalityImprovisational Theatre, Journaling, Salutogenesis, Play, Arts-Based Research2015Holding the Light An Unexpected Journey Where Disability Meets Possibilitydisability, social model of disability, salutogenesis, resilience, social ecology of resilience, shadow puppet play, story, caregiver, family2015Learning in HarmonyMusic Education Informed by Expressive Arts Therapyeducation, poiesis, nurturing creativity, arts-based research, heuristic research, EXA classroom, music, non-directive, student teacher relationship, classroom management, respect2015Let's Fly TogetherLiving recovery: a case study in Expressive Arts Therapycase study, recovery, recovering, movement, trust the process, presence, woman2015Navigating ChangeAn Exploration of Ritual and its Relationship to Expressive Arts Therapyritual, rites of passage, liminality2015Somewhere Between Here and ThereNavigating Intercultural Transitionsculture shock, international interns, identity, intercultural transitions2015The Lantern's Gift: Resilience Through ImageImagination, Resilience, Myth, Storytelling, Companion Image, Emergent, Post Modern, Salutogenesis2015The Moon, the Womb, and the WoundAn Expressive Arts Therapy Exploration of Birth Traumabirth trauma, c-section recovery, art as resource2015The Path of the Heroine From Dependence to Liberation by EXADependences, addictions, women, elements of addiccion as art materials, theories from biological, psychological, archetypal sustrata2015The Zeppelin Flight My First Expressive Arts Love Story: Working With Children With Cancerchildren with cancer, medical art therapy, play therapy, love, clinical, letter writing2015Voice as PhenomenonThe creative use of the voice on the base of its natural forces voice, singing, vocal training, phenomenon, universal-natural forces, physiology, anatomy, development of the voice and in different phases of life2015What Do the Arts have to Offer Women Who Have Been Traumatized by a Variety of Experiences?Can Art Interventions Be Implemented in a Time Limited Frame and Still Be Effective?Women, trauma, time-limited framework, qualitative, purposive snowball sample, large city in Canada, workshop, individual session2015With the wings of imaginationCultivating a sense of agency through Expressive Artsimagination, a sense of agency, Japanese women2014A Dance of Expressive Arts and YogaYoga, Expressive Arts2014An exploration of the Imagaination as a tool for addiction recoveryAddiction, Rehab, Dislocation, Free Market Society, Kenya2014Body & SoulReclaiming Self Through The Expressive Artsbody image, women, groups, intermodal, feminist, self inquiry, resourcing, soul work2014Conversations At The Edge Of PlayRelavence of Play in Lived Experience of Expressive Arts Therapists2014Engaging Autism with Expressive Arts to Increase Play RangeAutism, stimulatory behavior, non-hierarchical approach, teaching, improvisation, theatre, range of play, dramatic play, child2014Expressive Art Therapy as a Gift to Iranian Immigrant WomenCulture Shock, Iranian Imigrants, Iranian Women2014From Isolated to ConnectedCreating the Pieces of Meaningful Relationshipdevelopmental disability, bipolar disorder, dual diagnosis, feminism, phenomenology, low skill high sensitivity, aesthetic attractors2014From the inside to the outside, and from the outside to the inside: a path with return.The arts as companions and route signals in transition processescycle, spiral, connection, arts as companions2014HingabeThe Concept of Dedication or Devotion2014Knowing and Not KnowingEncountering the Unexpectedintermodal transfer, dialogue with the image, focusing, felt sense, mindfulness, meditation, movement, image making, visual art process, workshop method, ways of knowing through art, intuitive art2014Permission to Playplay, uncertainty, surprise, flow2014Studienreise nach KosovoEin situiertes Lehr-Lern-Arrangement auf der tertiären Ausbildungsstufe. Evaluation der Bedeutung für die individuellen Erkenntnis- und Entwicklungsprozesse der Studierendenteaching-learning-arrangement; art analogy; art-oriented reflection; situated learning; didactic of facilitation; diversity competence; students mobility2014The Art of Braidings ArtsCreating a Community Expressive ArtsHIV/Aids, harm reduction, marginalization, addictions, first nations, indigenous, métis, métissage2014The Beauty & the BeastExpressive Arts methods in organisational developmentorganisational theory, economic aesthetics, designing, interventions, decentering, consultation/project-phases, self organisation, resource orientation, solution focus, evaluation, transfer, case studies2014The Birth of ImaginationAn Exploration of the Impact of Aesthetic Experiencepower of imagination, dreams2014The Bridgefirst bridge, bridging process, imagination, reality, alternative world experience, play2014The SongStream ProjectBuilding Empathy and Communities at the Intersections of Story and Songoral history, lullabies, communitas, empathy, resilience, salutogenesis2014TransformationHow do I find my heart with art?imagination, transformation2014Where is Home?immigrant children home drawings versus home drawings of local children2014Zeitlose Momentetimeless moments2013A dance with hope Beauty of the coming-to-behealth challenges, healthcare settings, hope, bauty, play, imagination2013Art in Transition How Expressive Arts can strengthen civil society in post-Soviet Moldovaempowerment civil society, Moldova, NGO2013Bridging Art-Making and Meaning Making in the Expressive Artslanguage, bridge, art-making, meaning making, indigenous, youth, nature, story, therapeutic letters, reconciliation, Northern Canada, cancer2013Exploring the Concept of Beauty as a ResourceAn Arts-based exploration by Habib Ahmed Afsarconcept of beauty2013How can photography adults and youths be developed withing an expressive arts approach?photography2013How could Expressive Arts promote Personal Growth through Sensitisation?personal growth, sensorial experiences, frames2013How does Metaphor Facilitate the Therapeutic Process in Expressive Arts Therapy?metaphor, frame, ritual, intermodal transfer, decenterin, low skill high sensitivity2013IMAGINATION eine Annäherungimagination, low skills high sensitivity2013Körperskulptur als geronnene Bewegungbody sculptures, practical process of sculpturing, body sculpture test2013Machines of Loving Grace Expressive Arts Practice within Digital Workshop Environmentsdigital media, digital workshops, play, sensitization2013Peacebuilding, Accountability, and the Arts Contributions of the arts to peacebuilding evaluationpeacebuilding evaluation2013Stepping into the UnKnownpersonal growth, mental health2013Stepping into the unknownAn Expressive Arts Odysseyhistorical, freedom of being, human growth, development, natural beat of body2013Therapist and Client as playmatesA Case Study in the Realm of the Horsetherapist and client as co-players2012AppreciationAppreciation, fundament for working, act of humanity2012Bedeutsame Kunst 9 Frauen erzählen von ihrem Kunstschaffen im Alltagart as meaning2012Bridging Narrative Therapy and Expressive Arts Therapy Transforming our Stories through the Artsstory creation, felting wool, therapeutic letters, reflective writing2012Expressive Arts Widen Taiwanese Junior High School Students’ Perspectives on Difficulties, Based on the Principle of Expressive Arts Therapyphenomenological heuristic research, expressive arts therapy, engagement, image-making, image-responding, shifts in perspective2012Expressive Arts, Mass Violence & Grief Mourning the Unspeakable in Sri LankaSri Lanka, community healing, loss, death, grief, mourning, heartbreak, abuse, discrimination, imprisonment2012Hungry to crEATe: mission and method for integrating movement-based expressive arts into food systems educationelementary school, healthy relationship to food, playte metod2012Light Photo Performancephotography, light photo performance, self portrait2012Making the Bridge Between Decentering in a Highly Regulated, Corporate, Science-based Environmentdecentering with teams, fairplay, co-creation2012Self-inquiry through the lens of Expressive Arts Therapyself-inquiry, creative self-investigation, self-discovery, Lacan, Winnicott2012The Family Monumenthuman procreation, human inheritance, ancestors, unsuspected surprise, family tree, artwork2012Touch in Expressive Arts Therapy Rhymes and Fingerplay With Children With Developmental Delays and Dual Diagnosisuse of touch, children and youth, developmental delays, dual diagnosis2012Was, wenn nicht Kunst? Kunstinspiriertes Schaffen als Basis für persönliche, therapeutische und künstlerische Entwicklungsprozesseartistic developmental processes, inspiration, alchemistic power of transformation, receptive art therapy, communication of art2012Wende•Punkt Handlung und Wandlungturning point, handling, conversion2011"Je me souviens"Image as a Tangible Anchor to Memoryimage creation, imagination, shamanic practices, Winnicott, seniors, addicted youth, bullied children2011Awakening from traumaMy path to becoming a therapistdeveloping therapist, music, movement, trauma2011Beauty and TruthIntroducing the Expressive Arts into the British Columbia Educational School Systemeducation, pedagogy, children, public school2011From Cocoon to Butterfly: Transformation ProcessCan the image of the butterfly help and give hope to enter in a process of transformation?metaphor of butterfly transformation, support tool, guide, therapeutic work2011Hodi Hodi: An offering of Expressive Arts Therapy as complimentary cancer care for children in Tanzaniachildren with cancer, Tanzania, hospital, health, coexistence of joy and suffering2011How can Storytelling and Creative Writing with Adults be developed within an Expressive Arts Approach?storytelling, creative writing2011Living Autism through Creative Writing A case studyAutism, Creative Writing, Case Study2011Masken - Objekte des Wandels?masks, symbol, rituals, transition, metamorphosis, transformation, play, alternative world2011Meeting the Ensouled Otheraffect regulation, repair, mature, healing process, ensouled other2011The Art of Expanding Communicationlanguage, writer2011The Art of The Doll Doll as Tool For Transformation and Container For Narrativedoll making, chaos theory, healing process2011The Empty Mirror In Search of Authenticity through Self-portraiture and Neutral Maskself, identity, self-portraiture, neutral mask2010"Bei anderen Kindern ist etwas anders als bei uns zuhause"Kindern und Jugendlichen mit einem psychisch kranken Elternteil Raum geben durch kunst- und ausdrucksoriente Begleitungmentally ill parents, space for their children2010Art Students Finding a VoiceCivic Engagement Through Expressive Artscollege art students, civic engagement, poiesis2010Die vergessenen Müttersexually abused children, judged and forgotten mothers2010EigenArtJugend, eine Wanderung durch Zeit und Raumyouth, adolescents, Jean Piaget, career consultancy2010eine Frage ist eine Frage ist eine Antwort31 BriefeBriefe, Fragen, Antworten, Austausch2010How to experience Bodymind Totality using Movement, Imagemaking and Psychodramabodymind totality, body’s wisdom2010Inner DanceMy journey towards a mentally meaningful dancemovement and dance-based Expressive Arts Therapy2010Kunst.PunktEin Gesamtkunstwerk mit Community Art schaffenArtistic project, expressive modalities, Gesamtkunstwerk, community, community art2010Meine Suche nach der Kraft in der KunstExploring the power of artistic expressiondriving force, fire, enthusiasm, artistic expression2010RencontreApproche d’un entre-deux ouvert à la créationthe body and its tools, space and the body, the in-between, the third2010Schritte zur BefreiungWie Kinder Defizite aus den Evolutionsstufen mit Psychomotorik und EXA aufarbeitenevolution of the species, motor coordination, expressive capacities, children, psychomotricity2010Stepping into a relational paradigm - what role does the expressive arts play in promoting an integral existence?evolution of art, primitive societies, sacredness of decentering, crystallisation, polyaesthetics, intermodal transfer2010The Arts of SerendipitySerendipity, synchronicity, effect of accident, art of surprise, inspiration of duende2010The carnivorous plant’s fight with the monsters or "Now it’s becoming art!"progressive muscular dystrophy, therapy sessions, physically handicapped, chaos, fear, search for a new order2010Using the Expressive Arts and Eco-therapy to deepen Community Engagement with the Natural Worldeco-psychology, mental health, nature, community context2010Von Gestricktem und Verwobenem Die Besonderheiten der kunst- und ressourcenorientierten Arbeit im Vergleich zum PsychodramaPsychodrama and the art and resource-oriented work2010Wandel durch kunstanaloge Haltung und kunstorientierte Methodik in Supervision oder Beratungchange, engouraging proecesses of change through supervision and counselling2009A Ritual Journey Towards ChangeExploring the Human Condition with Women in Alcohol Recoveryritual, alcohol recovery, theater2009ANGAKUT: seeing with closed eyesExpressive Arts Shamanismshamanism, healing, soul, ritual2009Applying the Expressive Arts to WorshipExpressive Arts and Christian worship2009Conversations at the edge of the numinousphenomenology, numinous, soul, trauma, liminal2009Creating Headlines - Stories from below the surfaceExpressive Arts Therapy with a social change intention offered in a Harm Reduction environment to people living with HIV/AIDSsocial change, HIV/AIDS, dialogical action theory, phenomenological and heuristic perspective2009Creative Dance and Expressive Arts in Traditional EducationBuilding Successful Learners and Citizenscase study, creative dance residency, kindergarten, first grade classes2009Die "Künstlerische Haltung", eine Hilfe bei der Leidensbewältigung?soul suffering, cancer, life as a process of art2009Dionysos and ShamanAn Exploration of Metaphor in the Field of Expressive Arts Therapymetaphors, poetics, narrative, cultural and linguistic context2009Homehome, expatriate, new identity, new country2009Kunst orientiertDie Gestaltung zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungeninterpersonal relationships, Martin Buber, Virginia Satir, Carl Rogers2009MAGIC MIRRORSelf-Portraiture in One-on-One Expressive Arts Therapyself-portraiture, face, image, reflection in a mirror, identity2009Shoes and Ships - and Sealing WaxCabbages and Kings: Investigating the Nature and Power of Play in Expressive Arts Therapyplay, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, clowning, storytelling2009Vom Handarbeitszimmer zum AtelierEine Neudefinition und ihre Folgenpublic elementary school, new ways of communication and work-processes2009Where is the Playground?The Possibility of Expressive Arts Therapy with Elders in Residential Care.Elders, Play, Dementia, Residential Care2008"Manchmal wär ich lieber ein Gemüse"Körper- und Selbstwahrnehmung bei Jugendlichen im kunst- und ausdruckstherapeutischen Settingbodyawareness, selfperception, adolescents2008Clearing the WayExpressive Arts Therapy’s Capacity to Aid in the Preparation of New Parents for the Challenges of Parenthoodparenthood, parent’s navigation2008Die Brückehuman learning and growth, school, community2008Playing with the space of potentialChildren potential, play, therapy2008Sinnliches Material lässt Orte entstehenErfassung von Veränderungsprozessen in der Anwendung von Materialien mit den Methoden der Kunst- und Ausdruckstherapiematerials, senses, low skill high sensitivity, decentering, state of mind, change2008Space - space to betherapy, space, philosphy2008The Art of Expatriationexpatriate, international assignment, culture shock, global organizations, heimat, adjustment process2008Veränderungen beim Patienten im Zusammenhang mit Interventionen der Psychotherapeutin im kunst- und ausdrucksorientierten PsychotherapiesettingAnalysis of data Individual case studies Reserach Expressive arts oriented psychotherapy Intervention concept Theoretical change Causal correlations between changes of patient and intervention of the psychotherapist2008Veränderungsprozesse kunst- und lösungsorientiert begleitenIntermodal Decentering, artistic solution, supervision2008What doors do the arts open in business corporations?cooperation, business, doors, coaching, team development2007Auf der Suche nach der ganzheitlichen Kommunikationcommunication, consulting, analysis transaction, systemic coaching2007Creating Connections Among Special Populations Using Expressive Arts Therapy and Coachingcommunity, epilepsy, deaf or hard of hearing2007Die kunstorientierte Erweiterung des systemisch-lösungsorientierten CoachingansatzesEine Standortbestimmung in neun Schrittencoaching, spencer brown, substitution, model, intermodal, poiesis, theoria, praxis2007Die Natur und ihre Möglichkeiten für die kunst- und ausdrucksorientierte Therapienature, addicted clients, language as an agent between human and nature, haikus, wilderness2007Finding it and Losing it Again and AgainEXA and Sustainable Happinesshappiness, positive psychology2007If there is a laughterhumor, liability, awareness, sensitivity2007Naamiot kasvoilta - Removing masks from the facesMask work in Expressive Arts Therapyexpressive arts therapy, mask work, creative process, adolescent psychiatry, naamiot2007Perspectives on Play, an investigation on play as a form of decenteringplay through the arts, play as decentering, spielraum2007Rituale in Kunst und TherapieDie Kraft der rituellen Performanceritual, performance, transformation, liminality, dance, play, enchantment, salutogenese, shamanism2007Rugguusseli, The tradition of Natural Yodelling in Appenzell Innerrhodenyodelling, tradition, appenzell, folkmusic, ruguusseli, cultural, rituals, traditional music2007The Physical Therapist as the Solutionoriented Coachphysiotherapy, coaching, interview, solutionoriented approach, solutionfocus2006"Dancing on the Bridge" Art Analogue Contact in Expressive Arts Therapytherapeutic relationship, Heidegger, interpersonal contact2006A loving intermezzo - encounter and relationship in the Expressive Arts TriadBuber, Petersen, Rogers, relationship between client and artwork, hospitalized children, mentally handicapped brain injured, elderly people2006Art is a Verbcreative confidence, Dada, Art Brut2006Auf der Suche nach dem Wesentlichen - Mitteilungenessential, meditation2006Balance - In Gegensätzen miteinanderopposites, nature, mind, Grenzgestaltung, third space, Schiller2006Bewegung Beziehung Lebenflow, art process, coaching process, motivational theory2006Brain & Art Zur Emergenz von Lernenbrain, research, learning design2006Complementing Statistics with Story: An Aesthetic Counterpoint to Educational Outcomes Assessmenteducation, homeless, narrative inqiry, school community2006Complementing Statistics with Story: An Aesthetic Counterpoint to Educational Outcomes Assessmenteducation, homeless, narrative inqiry, school community2006Constructing Change: Making Junk Sculpture in Recoverycrisis intervention, psychiatric services, mental or social crises2006Cooking Without A Recipe, Weighing In Without A Scale Autopoiesis, Art Making and Eating Disorderschaos theory autopoiesis eating disorders2006Creationcreation, childern, myths, jung’s theory, spiritual2006Die Kunst zu führen und sich führen zu lassenleading in dance improvisation, performance-art2006Eros as Inspiration on the Road to Recoverydrugs, alcohol, addiction, eros, homeless veterans2006Expression creates impressionThe search for expression in artistic movementexpression through the body, movement, dance, theatre2006Expressive Arts in the rythmic play between tension and relaxationtension, relaxation, burnout2006Führen als Kunstprocess of change, salutogenetic organization, management of social organization, Joseph Beuys2006In Media Vita: Other modes of perceiving, remembering and imagining in the thick of thingsmodes of perceiving, remembering, imagining, concepts of self2006Intermodales Arbeiten in der Tanz- und Ausdruckstherapie. Ein Handbuch für Studentinnen und Lehrerinnendance therapy2006Kann das Theater-Projekt "Kultur-Integration-Kreativität" Migrantinnen aus Russland bei der Integration helfen?dialogical painting for group finding, performance for community integration, female russian migrants, long-term unemployed women2006Kunstanaloge Management- und OrganisationsentwicklungManagement- and organizational development, communication, work flow, management in change2006One heart four legs - how can Argentine Tango and Exa partner together?Argentine Tango, teaching social partner dancing2006Parcours der Sinne Projektarbeit zur Gestaltung von Milieu und Lebensraumplaces, spaces, stimulation, living space, environment, Joseph Beuys2006Project Candart – Für ein Projektland art, children, behavioural disorders, residential school2006Resilience: Authenticity and Intermodal Arts Therapyresilience, joy, pleasure, play, authentic creativity2006Selbstorganisation in Unternehmenself-organization, chaos theory2006Sound and Music Healing: Integrating with Expressive Arts Therapysound healing, physiology of hearing2006Tending the Fire at Work: An Expressive Arts Investigation of Burnoutburnout, loss of meaning, Antonovsky, sense of coherence2006Training in México Introducing the Expressive Arts Therapy into mental hospitalstraining, mental hospitals, visual arts, Mexicanidad2006Weaving ThreadsCreating Communication with Children on the Expressive Arts Playgroundchildren, communication skills, classroom setting, educational setting2003expressive arts therapy and the psychodynamic approachacomparative study with the palestinian adolescentspalestinian, adolescents, interaction2001Framing Phenomenological Response in Expressive Arts CoachingA Photojournalistic Journey on Fostering Transpersonal Response for Personal Transformationphenomenological response, photojournalism, self-acutalization, self-awareness, acceptance, personal transformation1999Real phantasy or phantastic reality?high perception, reality - phantasy, intuition, inspiration, phenomenological approc1998Jump!Experiments on the Creative Process within the Arts.art, creativity, experiment, theory, process, jump