Insights & Research

A collection of writings reflecting our ongoing exploration and inquiry into creativity, wellness and relational aesthetics.

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    The Creative Act As Inner Alchemy

    What if creativity isn’t just expressive, but transformational? This essay explores art-making as a deeply embodied process of inner change, drawing on principles from expressive arts therapy, Jungian psychology, and ritual studies. Through concepts like liminality, de-centering, and poiesis, it reframes the creative act as a symbolic threshold where personal insight and healing can emerge, not as outcomes we control, but as shifts that unfold through process, presence, and aesthetic engagement.

    Muriel Hofmann-Forster /01.08.2025

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    The Quiet Middle: An Embodied Exploration Of Metaxy Through Qigong

    This personal reflection weaves together philosophical traditions and embodied practice, drawing on the concept of metaxy and my experience of qigong to explore how tension shapes both consciousness and the body. It considers how learning to remain with uncertainty - rather than resolve it - can soften effort, restore responsiveness, and open a more livable relationship with the conditions of being human.

    Muriel Hofmann-Forster / 30.01.2026

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  • Re-embodying Connection Through Kapwa: Group Therapeutic Practices as Pathways to Communitas

    What does it mean to heal in relation, not in isolation? Rooted in the Filipino concept of Kapwa and aligned with relational worldviews like Ubuntu, this piece explores group therapeutic practices, such as group creative self-expression and qigong, as practices where selfhood becomes shared. Through synchronized movement, co-creation, and witnessing, participants enter a field of communitas where presence is reclaimed and connection becomes both practice and transformation. Kapwa emerges not as theory, but as a lived ethic of care.

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