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EXPRESSIVE ARTS TRAINING
FOR FACILITATORS

The ArtLab Institute is an official collaborative and contracted institute of the European Graduate School International Network, division of Arts Health & Society, Switzerland. Based in Ibiza Spain, the ArtLab Institute offers an hybrid online / in person training for a community of international creative souls wishing to make expressive arts an active part of their life and wanting to facilitate expressive arts experiences in professional contexts.
ArtLab foundational professional training offers two essential modules – Module K & Module A-P – from the Master in Expressive Arts & Psychology (Coaching, Therapy, Pedagogy & Social Change) of European Graduate School curriculum. Module K focuses on experiencing intermodal expressive arts and developing a personal intermodal art practice nourished by the principles of Expressive Arts. Module A-P dives deeper into the philosophy, principles and practice of intermodal expressive arts as a facilitator. Students must first complete Module K before joining Module A-P. 

Module K has a total of 105h contact hours, 300h self study, giving rights to a credit transfer of 16cp ETCS to students joining the Master program at the European Graduate School.
Module A-P has a total of 102h contact hours, 206h self study, giving rights to a credit transfer of 11cp ETCS to students joining the Master program at the European Graduate School. Both Modules give students direct access to the Master in Expressive Arts at the European Graduate School as well as credit validation.

You can read below a complete description of  the training. To apply send an email about your personal and professional experience, as well as your motivations, this will be followed by an interview.

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TRAINING PROGRAM

MODULE K – PART 1 
2 Intensive creation workshops
In person @ ArtLab Ibiza Studio
64h contact hours

To build up an experiential practice of Intermodal Expressive Arts, students must attend 2 in person intensive creation workshops @ Artlab Ibiza Studio: JUST PAINT & MIXED MEDIA
Below is a short description of these 2 intensive creation workshops, for more details you can visit each workshop’s page.
 

PART 1

JUST PAINT: Expressive Painting & Expressive Body 
Presence, embodied intermodal transfer, phenomenological observation and creative process.

During this 5 days live seminar students sensitize to embodied painting techniques and tools, while exploring how to relinquish control, harness chance encounters and transit the creative process of exploration, not knowing, trial, error and transformation. They will actively experience:

  • Range of play, low skills/high sensitivity frames
  • Sensitising & embodiment
  • Aesthetic experience & attractors
  • Presence & living inquiry
  • Not knowing & creative process
  • Dialogue with the work
  • Happy accidents & deconstruction
  • Phenomenological observation & the digital witness
  • Aesthetic analysis & harvesting

33h contact hours

READ MORE ABOUT THE JUST PAINT WORKSHOP

MIXED MEDIA: Collages & Assemblages, Scrapbooking, Imagination and Symbolic Language, Metaphors & Creative Writing
Practicing a multimedia approach to intermodal expressive arts

During this 5 days live seminar students will explore in depth the inspirational, aesthetic and symbolic potentials of art materials, images, and objects. They will uncover the metaphorical language of attractors, personal iconography, imagination and aesthetic sensitivity. They will actively experience:

  • Art materials, attractors, metaphors & imagination
  • Collages & assemblages, digital & analogue play
  • Decentering & perspective shifts
  • Deconstruction, randomness & reconstruction
  • Creative writing/poetry
  • Art installation & aesthetic responsibility
  • Intermodal transfer
  • Aesthetic analysis & harvesting

33h contact hours

READ MORE ABOUT THE MIXED MEDIA WORKSHOP

MODULE K – PART 2
Art Laboratories Online Community
41 h contact hours & 300h self study

Online Art Lab Community
The poiesis of art making – Anchoring a personal expressive arts practice 

This community course is designed to activate and support participants’ intermodal art practice. The community meets regularly to create together and share.
Students become familiar with the practice of phenomenological observation to journal, document, present, reflect and harvest from their art making process as well as respond to the work of other group participants. 
This course also includes inspirational teaching videos about the creative process to become familiar with:

  • Art as laboratory of experience, wonder & the attitude of inquiry
  • Aesthetic experience & attractors
  • Perceptions & the phenomenology of the creative process: presence & observation
  • Frame & range of play
  • Shaping & dialoguing with your artwork
  • Discovery & the processes of change
  • Intermodal and multimedia transfers
  • Digital witness & digital play
  • Digital documenting, aesthetic analysis & harvesting
  • Art as a way of expressing, discovering, understanding, inventing and knowing

39h contact hours

During the Online Community Art Lab students join regular intermodal art making laboratories of embodied creation practice covering a range of modalities: painting, clay, installation, collage, art journaling, voice & sound, digital art, creative writing & poetry. The program includes:

  • 6 Intermodal Seed Labs x 3h
  • 5 Digital art Mini Labs x 1h30
  • 5 Creative writing & poetry Mini Labs x 1h30
  • 4 Sharing circles x 1h30

300h self study & assignments

  • Videos on principles of expressive arts applied to personal art practice 10h
  • Art documentaries & readings 30h
  • Development of a personal project & creation a personal art journal 200h
  • 6 presentation albums of personal art practice in private Facebook group 40h
  • Community engagement/ collaborations/ artistic responses in private Facebook group 20h
READ MORE ABOUT THE VIRTUAL LIVE ART LABORATORY COURSE

MODULE A-P – PART 1
Foundation of Expressive Arts Facilitation
Online & In person
67h contact hours & 100h self study

Principles & Practice of Expressive Arts: 7 online sessions
Facilitating, guiding, harvesting

These 7 online sessions x 2h – spread from June to May – focus on how the principles and philosophy of Expressive Arts provide a clear foundation and frame for the facilitator. This part of the training includes readings, home works and the development of an internship practice. Students will become familiar with the Expressive Arts tool box:

  • The philosophical and theoretical background of the Expressive Arts
  • The Expressive Arts principles in practice
  • Presence, process & observation
  • The architecture of a session & the safe space
  • Frame & range of play
  • The low skills/high sensitivity EXA approach
  • Sensitising & embodiment
  • Decentering
  • Intermodal transfer
  • Aesthetic response and aesthetic responsibility
  • Aesthetic analysis, inquiry & open questions
  • Harvesting
  • Practice supervision

14h contact hours and  100h guided self Study spread over the year.
Self studies include: readings, research, writing, study-buddy practice, development of expressive arts sessions flow, supervision.

RITUALS & PERFORMANCES: in person @ ArtLab Ibiza studio
Art as transformative ritual, Physical Theatre & Improvisation, Nature Based Expressive Arts, Creative Writing & Poetry

32h contact hours
During this 5 days live seminar students will explore in more depth the facilitation of Intermodal Expressive Arts.  They will actively experience and practice:

  • Presence, process & open curiosity
  • Architecture of a session
  • Sensitising
  • Low skills / high sensitivity
  • Modality transfers
  • Observation, aesthetic analysis & harvesting
  • Rituals, transition & transformation
  • Nature based expressive arts
  • Creative writing & poetry
  • Not knowing and improvisation
  • Playing with objects & metaphors
  • Mask & costumes creation
  • presence, voice & expression
  • Decentering & intermodal transfer
  • Working with groups
  • The role of the facilitator 
READ MORE ABOUT THE RITUALS & PERFORMANCES WORKSHOP

Integration Module A-P/ Part 1: In person @ ArtLab Ibiza studio
Supervision practice, personal project presentation, closing ritual

21h contact hours
This in person 4 days workshop closes the Part 1 of Module A-P. It usually takes place in May at the end of the Part 1 training. In this workshop students will focus on integrating their learning experience. They will present their personal process and internship experience. They will guide an expressive arts session with pears and receive supervision. Focus will be on:

  • Practice & supervision
  • Aesthetic response & aesthetic responsibility
  • Intermodal presentation of art work 
  • Aesthetic Analysis & harvesting

Module A-P – Part 2
Praxis & Field Work
Online & In person
35h contact hours & 106h self study

Group Supervision: 7 online sessions

In these 7 online sessions of 2h over a year and half period, students will deepen their facilitation practice through group supervision. They will learn how to present cases & situations from their praxis in a phenomenological descriptive manner using aesthetic analysis. They will learn how and when to intervene in adequate ways during an expressive arts session or workshop. 
Self study will include praxis readings, cases presentation, personal research.

14h contact hours & 106h self study

Integration Module A-P/Part 2: In person @ ArtLab Ibiza studio
Advance Expressive Arts facilitation & supervision 

In this 4 days in person workshop, students will integrate their learning from Module A-P – Part 2. This workshop will end their training as facilitator. During this workshop students will:

  • Present their Praxis experience
  • Guide a 1 x 1 session live with pears
  • Receive in person supervision
  • Experience how to present EXA to clients and professionals (Elevator technique)
  • Learn how to work with crisis & conflicts situations
  • Review ethical & social issues in professional contexts
  • Experience art based research

21h contact hours

Get in touch now to apply

Send your application via email with your background and motivations

Program director Roseline de Thélin 
CAGS in Expressive Arts, MA in Expressive Arts Therapy & Coaching – European Graduate School Switzerland
Certified Humanist Gestalt Art Therapist – Hephaisto School Spain
Mixed Media Visual Artist & Teacher
MA in Curation of Cultural & Artistic Exhibitions, Theatre & Movie Productions – University Paris 9 France
Fine Arts Paris France – Art Residency Sir JJ School of Art Mumbai India

COST OF TRAINING

MODULE K 
2 INTENSIVE WORKSHOPS IN PERSON
Just Paint & Mix Media
In person 5 days intensive @ArtLab Ibiza
Student discount – 2 x 480 euros

ONLINE ART LABORATORY
Yearly membership – 370 euros

Total Tuition Module K – 1330 euros

MODULE A-P – PART 1
PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE OF EXA
7 online sessions – 370 euros

2 INTENSIVE WORKSHOPS IN PERSON
Rituals & Performances 
In person 5 days intensive @ArtLab Ibiza – 480 euros

Module A-P / Part 1 Integration
In person 4 days intensive @ArtLab Ibiza –  380 euros

Total Tuition Module AP-Part 1 – 1230 euros

MODULE A-P – PART 2
GROUP SUPERVISION
7 online sessions – 370 euros

1 INTENSIVE WORKSHOP IN PERSON
Module A-P / Part 2 Integration
In person 4 days intensive @ArtLab Ibiza –  380 euros

Total Tuition Module AP-Part 2 –  750 euros

Payments timeline is discussed with each participants depending on individual curriculum.

Registration is open for the cohort 2026-2027. Interested send an application email via the contact sheet with your motivations. This will be followed by an online interview to discuss your application and curriculum. 

Get in touch now to apply

TESTIMONIALS

“Your inspiration & motivation help us unveil the truth within and experience true presence in creation” Marie

“A sacred space you hold for all our stories to be told, like a magician weaving threads into gold” Lilian 

“You guide us into our unique creative authenticity and gift us with a safe space to explore our deeper truths” Annabelle 

“You are a creator of ideas, guiding us from your island imagination to discover our own glorious creation” Dies

“You inspire us to discover the balance of creative flow and awareness of beauty through the practice of presence” Mischa

“The palette of creativity you share is allowing us to dive into an ocean of imagination where sacred seeds are sown.” Emmanuelle

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