Resonance Space Nature - Tracing Aesthetic Research on Resonance in the Context of Art Therapy

The focus is on aesthetic research with and in nature. Through perception, artistic creation, and reflection, moments of resonance become tangible. The aim is to connect personal self-experience and self-reflection with the methodical and practical integration of nature-related processes into art therapy. In this way, individual and curricular perspectives are brought together, and nature becomes an intentional component of artistic-therapeutic practice.

The objectives of the continuing education course are:

• designing therapeutic settings outdoors and integrating natural processes into ongoing art therapy sessions
• using natural materials such as earth, plant-based pigments, stones, or found objects as creative and symbolic means of expression
• developing exercises that help clients recognize and transform inner themes through observation of nature and artistic resonance
• learning how experiences of nature support stress regulation, mindfulness, and self-perception and can be applied in art-therapeutic contexts
• integrating ecological and sustainable principles into art-therapeutic attitudes and practice
• using aesthetic research as a method to make processes visible, document them, and use them for therapeutic reflection
• expanding one’s own artistic-therapeutic forms of expression through sensory, process-oriented work with nature and the environment

For art therapists and art educators with a successfully completed university degree or a comparable qualification, (artistic) therapists in training, and people with a similar professional background.
Interested individuals from related professional fields are also very welcome to participate.

Students of the artistic therapies are also very welcome – they can deepen and differentiate their knowledge through attending the continuing education course even during their studies and use acquired university certificates in applications. Students of Alanus University have the opportunity to book the continuing education course at special rates (see below).

For students of Alanus University, we would like to enable participation in continuing education courses with a 50% discount. An individual quota is available for each course. University certificates are excluded from the discount.

Anna Müller 

Art therapist (B.A., Alanus University) and state-certified occupational therapist with many years of experience and a focus on working with people with mental illnesses

Head of the Institute for Continuing Education in the Artistic Therapies:
Brigitta Jaroschek M.A. (Research Associate)

Further information, contact options, and our FAQ can be found here:

edu.Art – Institute for Continuing Education in the Artistic Therapies | Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences