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) both accredited by the European Graduate School. 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. Module A-P has a total of 100h contact hours, 206h self study, giving rights to a credit transfer of 11cp ETCS. Both Modules give student 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.
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
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
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
41h 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 1.30h
5 Creative writing & poetry Mini Labs x 1.30h
4 Sharing circles x 1.30h
300h self study & assignments
Videos on principles of expressive arts applied to personal art practice 10h
Art documentaries library & articles reading 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
MODULE A-P – PART 1 Foundation of Expressive Arts Facilitation Online & In person 65h 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 220h 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:
Integration Module A-P/ Part 1: In person @ ArtLab Ibiza studio Supervision practice, personal project presentation, closing ritual
25h 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
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 – PART 1 2 INTENSIVE WORKSHOPS IN PERSON Just Paint & Mix Media In person 5 days intensive @ArtLab Ibiza Student discount – 2 x 480 euros
MODULE K – PART 2 ONLINE ART LABORATORY Yearly membership – 370 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
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 COST TRAINING 2 MODULES – 3.310 euros
Payments timeline is discussed with each participants depending on individual curriculum.
Registration is open for the cohort 2025-2026. 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.
