Teachers

Paolo J. Knill, Ph.D., Dr.h.c.

Musician and performance artist. Rector of the European Graduate School. Prof. Emeritus of Lesley University Cambridge MA. Co-founder of the International Network of Expressive Arts Training Centers. Author of Minstrels of Soul: Intermodal Expressive Therapy and other books.Margo N. Fuchs Knill, Ph.D

Margo Fuchs Knill

Poet, licensed poetry therapist and supervisor. Dean of the Masters Program in Expressive Arts, The European Graduate School. Works in private practice and teaches at training institutes in Europe and USA. Author of Season-ing Life and co-author of Minstrels of Soul: Intermodal Expressive Therapy and other books.

Melinda Ashley Meyer, PhD

PhD in Expressive Arts, Researcher at the Norwegian Study Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress. Director and Co- founder of the Norwegian Institute for Expressive Arts and communication. Director of Psychodrama and trained as bioenergetic-therapist. The Norwegian Institute is the supporting Institute for this year’s Symposium.

Jacques Stitelmann, PhD.

Artist with images and words. Psychotherapist and Director of L’ATELIER, Geneva. Principal author of the collective book, Au-delà de l’image. Author of the website www.poietique.ch

Margareta Wärja, MA, CAGS, PhD Candidate

Musician, expressive arts therapist, music therapist, licensed psychotherapist. Director of Training Expressive Arts, Stockholm.

Andreas C. Meier M.A., CAGS

Dancer and performing artist in Switzerland, Europe and abroad with a main interest in improvisational collaborative work. Teacher at ISIS Switzerland and at the European Graduate School. Works on his own private practice and at an acute day clinic in Zurich.

Markus Alexander, MA, CAGS, PhD Candidate

Multi-disciplinary artist, actor and dance-theatre improviser, Expressive Arts Therapist, founder and Director of World Arts Organization in Alberta, Canada. Markus will be collaborating with Paolo Knill throughout the community art sessions.

Founder, director and main-teacher at the Danish institute of ex-Arts, Spirituality and Communication. Cand.scient.pol.(political science), organizational consultant, psycho-therapist (Isis),CAGS at EGS,and teacher in leadership, organiztional development and coaching.

PER ESPEN STOKNES Ph.D
Per Espen Stoknes is CEO of clean-tech company GasPlas.com. Teacher at Norwegian Expressive Arts institute. Psychologist from Univ. of Oslo, and senior lecturer on scenarios and climate strategy at Norwegian Business School. Ph.D. in the metaphors of economics. Co-founder of Alliance for Wild Ethics (wildethics.org) Author of three books, the latest is Money and Soul (2009).

Brigitte Wanzenried, lic.phil.I, CAGS
Art and family Psychotherapist and painter.
Teacher at ISIS Switzerland and EGS.
Lives and paints in Switzerland and Italy