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Department of Expressive Arts Coaching & Community Building

Co-create brighter futures through the power of expressive arts and the strength of community.

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Expressive Arts Coaching & Community Building is a pioneering program that integrates collaborative, liberatory creative practices with coaching and facilitation to inspire individual and collective transformation. Graduates acquire a unique foundation that encourages their practice and professionalism as credentialed coaches, expressive arts facilitators, and leaders in the field.

Why Choose This Program?

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Groundbreaking Curriculum

Be part of the first M.A. program in the U.S. dedicated to expressive arts coaching and community building.

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Focus on Social Justice

Develop skills to guide transformational change, emphasizing cultural responsiveness, belonging, and equity.

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Community-Centered Approach

Learn to create meaningful connections through participatory methods and arts-based facilitation.

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Global Reach

Join a program designed for online learners, with a diverse, international student body.

Faculty Research and Scholarship

Our faculty research a wide variety of subjects, including grassroots and social justice community building,  populations with kaleidoscopic locations of identity and experience, and the integration of the arts into group and professional settings.

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Drama Therapy and Trauma

In this episode of The Trauma Therapist podcast, Associate Professor Myriam Savage discusses the value of the narrative performing arts in a therapeutic context, and their particular use in the accessing and healing trauma.
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Understanding What is not Being Said

“The most powerful theater is when the actors aren’t actually talking,” says Professor Shoshana Simons in conversation with the Then, Now, & Tomorrow podcast about using the arts and play to understand communication outside of words.
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The Science of Friendship

Program Chair and Professor Christine Brooks explains the necessity of rich social worlds to our health, as well as the difficulties and rewards of developing scholarship on the least-studied of human relationship structures.

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