Professional Teaching Team

Dr. LAI Ka Kit

PhD, MSS, MA, DVATI, CAGS, RCAT, REAT

Lecturer and Supervisor of the Master and Doctoral Programs in Expressive Arts Therapy at the European Graduate School, Switzerland

Registered Expressive Arts Therapist

Registered Art Therapist

Associate Fellow of the Hong Kong Professional Counsellors Association

Dr. Lai is the Program Director of Kunst EXA Academy. He is currently a lecturer, practicum and dissertation supervisor for the Master and Doctoral Programs in Expressive Arts Therapy at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and a former Honorary Lecturer in the Master’s Program in Expressive Arts Therapy at the University of Hong Kong. He is also a member of the International Network of Expressive Arts Training, which connects expressive arts therapy educators worldwide in North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. He has over 20 years of experience integrating the creative industries, art, arts education, therapy, and life.

Since 1991, Dr. Lai has worked as a photographer/filmmaker and Executive Creative Director (Global). His work has received numerous awards in Europe, America, and Asia. In 1998, he assisted the Hong Kong Government in promoting creative arts education in over 50 schools. Since 2003, he has specialized in integrating expressive arts with therapy/counseling, serving various non-profit organisations (NGO) and commercial organizations. Through artistic creation, he enriches interpersonal interactions and fosters a more harmonious and fulfilling world. As a registered expressive arts therapist, registered art therapist and associate fellow of the Hong Kong Professional Counsellors Association, Dr. Lai has implemented expressive arts therapy models with children, adolescents, seniors, and individuals in mental health rehabilitation settings throughout Europe, the United States, Canada, and Pan-Asian regions such as China, Russia, and Cambodia.

Prof. Margo Fuchs Knill

Professor

Founding faculty member & Dean of the Division of Arts, Health and Society at the European Graduate School EGS.

Former Ass. Professor at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.

Psychotherapist ASP since 1995

Registered poetry therapist

Mentor supervisor RPT as of 1993

Certified Expressive Arts therapist

Licensed mental health counselor since 1992

Margo Fuchs Knill works in private practice and teaches internationally at cooperating universities, as well as partner institutes in Europe, Russia, USA, Latin America, India, Turkey, China Hong Kong.

Prof. José Miguel Calderon

Co-founder of TAE Peru/ Barcelona Institute.

Director of the PhD program in Expressive Arts of the European Graduate School, Switzerland.

His doctoral dissertation was titled Tinkuy: The Encounter between Expressive Arts Therapy and Peruvian Imaginary.  He has received a master’s degree in theoretical psychoanalytic studies at University College London.

Degree in clinical psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

Therapist and expressive arts supervisor.

He has led several community projects. His interest is focused on Arts Based Research and on the exploration of movement and creative writing.

Prof. Shaun McNiff

Professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Previous president of the American Art Therapy Association and an Honorary Life Member

Shaun McNiff is an internationally recognized figure in the areas of the arts and healing and creativity enhancement, and the author of many books that include Art Heals, Trust the Process, Art as Medicine and Creating with Others. He established the first Expressive Arts Therapy graduate training program at Lesley University from which the discipline of Expressive Arts Therapy emerged.

Prof. Stephen K. Levine

Paul Celan Chair of Philosophy and Poietics in the Arts, Health and Society Division of the European Graduate School EGS

Dean of the Doctoral Program in Expressive Arts in European Graduate School

Stephen’s early training was in Eastern thought, particularly Buddhism and Taoism, at the University of Pennsylvania. He went on to a rigorous education in Western philosophy at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York, where he studied with Hans Jonas and Aron Gurwitsch in particular, themselves students of Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl respectively, the founders of phenomenological philosophy. Levine’s dissertation, on Heidegger’s philosophy of art, received the New School dissertation prize in 1967. He later completed a second doctorate in Anthropology at the New School under the supervision of Stanley Diamond, with a thesis on Rousseau’s dialectical anthropology.