Poiesis is a group of phenomenological experimentation and investigation in Expressive Arts Therapy, Trauma and Embodiment. Our primary intention is to generate a space where you can consolidate knowledge and experience, with emphasis on the value of art, the creative process, philosophy, and science in accompanying the effects of trauma.

The term Poiesis has its’  base in Transdisciplinary Art Therapy; it is the capacity that the person has to connect with understanding through the process of ´doing´. The process of ´creating art´ permits ones internal reality to manifest and experience to be expressed authentically and spontaneously.

It is centred in the real value of the creative process, the acquisition of knowledge and a deeper understanding of the self through experience, play, art and its’ expression. Martin Heiddeger describes poiesis as:´the blooming of the flower, the emergence of the butterfly from its cocoon, the plummeting of a waterfall when the snow starts to melt.


Poises EXAT Online is a foundation course of 50 hours, which aims to provide continuous training to professionals and students interested in acquiring a greater understanding of the application of creative therapies, art therapy and expressive arts therapy in the accompaniment of processes in trauma, pain and disease.

The majority of the sessions are practical and require student participation; reference experiences, applications and methods will be presented to work with and investigate. The elaboration of scenes through embodiment practices creates space for deep integration to occur.

This online course is intended for professionals and students in the creative therapies who have an interest in integrating different expressive, creative and somatic resources in their professional practice, within the framework trauma and embodiment.

These professionals include graduates of creative therapies, educators, psychologists, nurses, doctors, and other related professions.