Certificate Expressive Arts Facilitation

Key Qualifications

Basic methods related self-experience with different forms of expression and art disciplines: identify own access and abilities and develop them in different contexts. Develop abilities to differentiate and to reflect the own personal perception patterns, action and experience structures and obstacles emerging in the process. Willingness and ability to express oneself in a technically low demanding manner. Involve intellectually in the creative process, also on the basis of cultural rituals and practices.

Create an own artwork in a selected art form and gain in depth skills and knowledge. Consider and train the transfer of intermodal art forms and of artistic and expressive oriented methods into practice for various life issues and different situations. Instruct, integrate and evaluate change processes through art. Practice and training in phenomenological- psychological thinking.

The Participants are able to:

Self-competence

• recognize own creative and artistic resources
• develop and broaden reflection skills and self-awareness
• identify problems and obstacles in the process and handle them
• initiate and design art and expression-oriented processes

Social competence

• maintain and nurture one's own creative act in a social context
• identify conflicts and conflict types and deal with them constructively
• shape group processes and other interpersonal dynamics consciously by art-oriented and intermodal strategies
• hold an appreciative attitude towards fellow human beings and their expressions
• distinguish group process, role and person

Professional competence

• differentiate and distinguish perception and imagination as constituent aspects in constructing reality
• pursue, shape and reflect access, structures and ways of an artistic process
• distinguish the various forms of human symbolizations in terms of their suitability for therapeutic concerns
• bring an artistic work to completion
• present an artistic work to the outside
• learn to think phenomenologically and to act on that base

Methodical competence

• implement low skill - high sensitivity methodology
• become familiar with the method of intermodal decentering and their didactic steps ( SERA , MORE, OPER) in small sequences
• encounter the Art work phenomenologically (Aesthetic Analysis) 
• lead the artistic dialogue to encounter work, process and client
• apply artistic techniques so that the individual competence of the client can be recognized and expanded

In combination with previous Graduate Degrees, the Certificate Expressive Arts Facilitation can count as Module K and offers the option to continue with the Master in Expressive Arts Therapy.