About EGS Arts, Health and Society Division

Aristotle speaks of three kinds of knowing:

• Theoria (knowing by observing),
• Praxis (knowing by doing),
• Poiesis (knowing by making).

Our Programs seek to restore confidence in Poiesis, the knowing that comes from the human capacity to shape both self and world. Training and research at Arts, Health and Society Division of European Graduate School are based on that capacity and encourage students to take responsibility for shaping their development as learners.

Modern life demands new ways for studies and research.

Arts, Health and Society Division of European Graduate School is a non-profit organization that fulfills its requirements without state subsidies.

Arts, Health and Society Division of European Graduate School works in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary way and supports the networking with other universities and institutes aiming to gain synergy through joint instructional and research activities.

Arts, Health and Society Division of European Graduate School is committed to fundamental research in the health sector, psychotherapy, supervision, coaching and education, and is active in the research concerning effectiveness and long term consequences in art therapies.

Arts, Health and Society Division of European Graduate School sets high ethical standards and works with scientific models and other established methods of learning.

Being with the arts is our way of being in the world.

Arts, Health and Society Division of European Graduate School is closely connected to the phenomenological human sciences and an anthropological view.

Arts, Health and Society Division of European Graduate School is committed to the spirit of the "liberal arts" and considers arts, philosophy and sciences as essentially related to each other. The various realities of human existence are connected in the creative act.

Arts, Health and Society Division of European Graduate School considers the human being as part of a higher totality who, in "being in the world" carries not only an individual and social responsibility, but also an ecological responsibility.

Arts, Health and Society Division of European Graduate School views the human being as lingual being who, in opening to the "Here and Now" through the artistic act, through play and philosophical thinking, finds the possibility to constructively shape life in all its multiplicity.

Faculty

Faculty members come from transdisciplinary practices that cross institutional boundaries. Advocate investigative learning and creative inquiry which embrace the stratified complexity of the concrete problems we face today. They are familiar with thinking that expands the horizon of established frameworks and creates networks between disciplines and institutions in both the private and public sector.