EXAF in Continuing Education

Stoppages in continuing education training settings benefit from imaginary space and alternative world experiences

Trainees can find real life solutions through unexpected and unpredictable experiences that are affective, sensory based and playful 

Expressive Arts Focusing EXAF brings about such experiences. Experiential Felt Arts from the body sense can open up to shifts in structure-bound learning and experiencing that otherwise stay stuck

The process is carried forward through circular loops of aesthetic experiencing, expressing and finding meaning. The outcome is improvement in self-regulation and self-empowerment

EXAF Hands-on Methods We Use

In EXAF-based continuing education, we use a variety of hands-on methods that are tailored to the training setting, its topics and issues, and its target audiences

 

  • Embodied Doodling: Energizing the body through spontaneous repetitive art activities for stress release and grounding

  • Felt Art Journaling: Processing difficult emotions, issues or intentions through multiple layers of artistic expression from the body sense

  • Experiential Museum Art-Based Engagement: Receptive-active art activities that respond to fine arts from the art sense (Paolo Bianchi) and find aesthetic connection and deeper meaning

  • Experiential Collaging (Prof. Dr. Akira Ikemi) and Phototherapy (Prof. Dr. Kathrin Seifert): Find and explore meaning through action-oriented art expression using inside-out and outside-in felt sensing

  • Experiential Dynamic Shape Drawing (DSD): Focus through the drawing of rhythmical moving and swinging lines while breathing using Lombard braid patterns for inspiration (Anthroposophical Art Therapy)

  • Bilateral Body Mapping/Guided Drawing®: Release intense body sensations, emotions, and trauma (Sensorimotor Art Therapy®)

Find Your Way. Keep Going With the Arts!