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2019. Community Art summer school

2018. CAGS/PhD program at EGS, some highlights

2015. Dr. Paolo Knill on Arts

Dr. Paolo Knill talks about why and how arts are important. How does Expressive Arts Therapy help?

I want to answer this question by considering Art as an acclivity of human beings, as one of their existentials. And existential means “how can I imagine a human being without it?” I cannot imagine a human being without food, without shelter, without protection. And I cannot imagine it without the arts. So there is a healthy way to live with eating, live with the fact that we need protection, and to live with the fact that we need to have a life that allows humanity to go on. Now art is interesting, because one could think “oh we could live without it”, however humanity never lived without it in a healthy way. Most are regulated with rituals: the rituals of healing, the rituals of social change, and individual change in the world, like marriage, or becoming an adult. And in all these rituals you can see art: music, poetry, story telling, and so forth. So, in that sense there is a healthy way to go on with the arts. If the arts are misused, as being propaganda, or for selling something, then it is not used in the right way, however, we are not making a law of forbidding it. We just say, that art should have its own way of manifesting itself. It’s kind of a healthy companion. If I can bring in my story and share it with other people through poetry, then I feel better being understood by people. If I am able to sing, or make a song, together with somebody else, or in groups, then it is a wonderful ritual of being in an ensemble, in teamwork. And if you are able to make a theatre play that shows situations in life that touch us, and give a sense of empathy with certain life situations, we feel understood as people. And it is less likely that people stay alone with their suffering, and that they have nothing else than to talk about it and not having someone there to share it with. So it is a way of taking care of health, and it is not only to take care of the existentials like health, like eating, like sheltering, also like sharing the story of life and giving each other support.

2017. Chasing Inspiration. A film about Inspiration and the Expressive Arts

2017. Vignettes from summer school 2017

Lucia Cardenas, an AHS alumnus, made this beautiful film as part of her MA Thesis at the Division of Arts, Health and Society at EGS. It features AHS students and faculty speaking about inspiration and the expressive arts.

2017. Anna Fenech. Still images

2016. Paolo J. Knill. On the notion of -the third-.

2016. Margo Fuchs Knill. Poetry and the Expressive Arts.

Paolo J. Knill Ph.D. & Dr. h.c., founding President and Professor at the AHS (Arts, Health and Society) Division from The European Graduate School / EGS. Saas Fee, Switzerland 2016.

Margo Fuchs Knill, Dean of the Masters Program and Professor at the AHS (Arts, Health and Society) Division from The European Graduate School / EGS. Saas Fee, Switzerland 2016.

2016. Carrie MacLeod. What is unlikely and Unique about E.G.S?

2016. Michael Siegell. A Way Of Knowing.

Carrie MacLeod Ph.D. candidate, Professor at the AHS (Arts, Health and Society) Division from The European Graduate School / EGS. Saas Fee, Switzerland 2016.

We have asked EGS adjunct faculty member Michael Siegell what has brought him to work with Expressive Arts and if he sees a connection between Rumi (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī) and the work we do.

2016. Melinda Ashley Meyer. This School Is A Laboratory For Peace.

2016. Brigitte Wanzenried. The Two Things That Make Me Whole.

We have asked EGS Core Faculty Member Melinda Ashley Meyer what kind of unbeatable contribution Expressive Arts offers for the work with refugees.

EGS faculty member Brigitte Wanzenried about the connection between her life as an artist and her life as art therapist.

2016. Kelly Clark Keefe. Commitment and Integrity.

2016. Barbara Hielscher. Everything Has Found It's Right Place

We have asked EGS Faculty Member Kelly Clark Keefe about Commitment and Intergrity 

EGS Adjunct faculty Member Barbara Hielscher about "Everything Has Found It's Right Place". 

2016. Sally Atkins. We make Art to ask Questions and find Surprises.

2016. Markus Alexander. It’s actually peace.

We have asked EGS core faculty member Professor Sally Atkins: „Over all these years you are such a successful teacher. The student evaluations from your seminars are always off the charts. What’s your magic, what’s your secret?“

We asked retired faculty member Markus Alexander what has kept him passionate about returning to EGS in Saas-Fee every summer for the past twenty years.

2015. Testimonials by students

The following testimonials were gathered during the Summer School sessions of 2015.

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