Insights & Research

What if creativity isn’t just expressive—but transformational? This reflection 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

Ritual spaces have long served as portals to transformation. This piece weaves together philosophy, neuroscience, and expressive arts to examine how liminal experiences—and the state of de-centering—enable personal and perceptual shifts. Drawing from thinkers like Spinoza, Turner, and Heidegger, it explores how softness, sensory ritual, and wonder interrupt the habitual self and create conditions for emergence.

Comming soon.

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.

Comming Soon.

Comming Soon.