Abstract:
My thesis deals with the creative process within the arts. It does not for the most part deal with art in general but with what art provokes in the microcosmos that is within individuals.

My research project is in three parts:

1 Experiments with and evaluation of my own artistic process
2 Accompanying the artistic process of a professional artist
3 The longest and most important part concerns the
participants in a video project I worked on and their creative experience in producing a video.

Throughout my life I have been fascinated by all the mutation change and growth which takes place in nature and in human beings. In this thesis I want to focus on the creative process within the arts. In my research about the artistic process I want to find out if in
practicing art change and growth happen. I would like to examine the special nature of change within an artistic process.

I believe that mutation change and growth are the basis for all therapy.

To write a thesis on the creative process within the arts is a difficult task. My subject is something that is very hard to describe and define. In experimenting evaluating and writing I will develop my own stand-point on the creative process and I hope that readers of this thesis will develop theirs.

Finally I want to state that I put my heart into every part of this thesis in particular the third part in which I write about the participants in the video project I worked on. I believe in this work. It is like any kind of creative work with people not about giving somebody a chance or a possibility but about making it possible for someone to take their chance.

Abstract:
This thesis deals with the subject of creation according to ancient myths. The world was
created by the creator of all things the creator had an idea to create a new world. From that
idea the creator starts to shape the spirtual into a concrete form to give life to his idea.
In all myths the world is created as a whole in single day all at once but rather it developed
gradually from stage to stage.
This thesis is intended to examine the therapeutic process of bringing the spiritual into the
real through art making.
Paralleling the developing process of composition the creator (the patient) undergoes an
internal process of constant creation which also develops in stages.
This work will review theories such as : crystallization polyaesthetics imaginative reality and
literal reality concepts from Jung s theory and from the alchemic aspect.
In the practical part I shall describe the creative - therapeutic process of one patient s
internal creation.

Abstract:
This thesis investigates the inclusion of expressive arts in a classroom setting with the specific
purpose of increasing communication skills of the students. Through engaging the students in
playful and imaginative sessions I established a focused awareness on communication. This
included increased listening capabilities encouraged a more positive manner of interacting with
others and enhanced students’ awareness on an intrapersonal level. My main expressive modality
was drama although I worked intermodally with a variety of arts modalities. I have woven
theories of expressive arts therapy and background information on the topic of communication
including the unique contributions of art in order to gain insight as to how they interact. My
personal experiences aesthetic responses as expressed through my art as well as descriptions and
findings through group studies contribute to the body of this work. I was most interested in
expanding the horizons of implementation of expressive arts in educational settings.

Abstract:
Abstract in Deutsch: Gegenstand der vorliegenden Forschungsarbeit ist intermodales Arbeiten mit
den Schwerpunkten: Dialogisches Malen zur Gruppenfindung Theaterspielen zur Integration
rezeptive Kunsttherapie zur Stärkung und Auseinandersetzung mit der Rolle und der eigenen Person
sowie Selbstwahrnehmung – Fremdwahrnehmung und Malen in der Gruppe zur Evaluation mit
Übergangsobjekt. Dabei fanden die Theorien von Kristallisation Decentering mit ästhetischer
Analyse und Harvesting besondere Berücksichtigung. Im Rahmen eines von der EU geförderten
Projektes für Migrantinnen aus Russland und langzeit-arbeitslosen Frauen wurde mit Intermodalem
Arbeiten Abbau von Vorurteilen Integration persönliche und kulturelle Vernetzung sprachliche
Förderung und Steigerung des Selbstwertgefühls ermöglicht.

Abstract in English: The project objective focuses on intermodal work consisting of: dialogical
painting for group finding performance for community integration receptive art therapy for
strengthening and confronting the stage-role and the selfidentity as well as self-perception – other-
perception and painting in the group for evaluation with a transitional object. Goals of prejudice
reduction community integration establishment of a personal and cultural network language
promotion and raising of self-esteem were achieved through crystallization decentering aestetic
analysis and harvesting in a group of female russian migrants and long-term unemployed german
women.

Abstract:
The purpose of this piece of work is to be a contribution to the Flow Experience in regard to Artistic Experience and Coaching the latter both creating Flow in the truest sense of the word. A pre-requisite of Flow is the inner drive of the human being in connection with challenges and capabilities. My aim is to show that the artist and coach both confront identical issues. Both start off with similar questions. In regard to the creation process feelings and solution finding both go through the same phases. This process bestows upon both the artist and coach a feeling of happiness free from exterior judgement and rewards. Fundamental features of the Flow Experience are experiencing joy and fun with the matter in hand as well as a readiness to grow in the act of doing and being. It is only so that I can connect with my own personal being (my Self) and become identical with my own growth process.