Healing Through Art

3-Year Postgraduate Therapeutic Visual Arts Program

Multidisciplinary Program: Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Form Drawing

Artistic work brings us into closer connection with ourselves and with nature. It opens and reveals the inner world through the colors, forms, tones, and lines that we create. It shows us to ourselves and allows us to see, to adjust, to balance, and to harmonize that which can bring healing.

Art becomes healing when the archetypal lawfulness of the medium and the integrity of the creative process are able to enter and work upon the human constitution and engage the self in activating life-giving forces.

Over the course of 3 years, the program supports students on their path to work with artistic therapies for adults and children in a variety of settings. On the one hand, students work to develop their own artistic abilities, sensitivity, and knowledge of materials and practices while also moving through their own personal healing journey. On the other hand, students build up a deep understanding of the subtle inner processes that allow the arts to work in healing others. Through the instruction of Anthroposophic doctors, nurses, and counselors, students develop insights into the nature of the human being, healing processes, and professional practices. The program lays the deep and practical foundations of artistic work in the various mediums and the philosophical foundations of art and healing through study of texts by Liane Collot d’Herbois and Rudolf Steiner.