Salutogenese bei der Arbeit am Tonfeld

Under the parameter of salutogenesis according to Aaron Antonovsky and according to the latest findings from motivational psychology according to Julius Kuhl, art therapist Evi Welsch examines the work on the clay field according to Heinz Deuser (Institute for Gestalt Education, Hinterzarten). "I touch - and I am touched, a field smoothed with clay - the work on the clay field. In the dialogue of the hands with the clay we encounter a matrix full of possibilities, which corresponds with our own possibilities and can be grasped. The clay meets us on this individual journey of experience, it offers support to the hands, it is available in many ways, and at the same time it conveys to us with its traces what we are doing there." (Deuser) On the basis of the presentation of process sequences with patients of an acute care ward, the work on the clay field in the sense of coherence formation and according to self-regulative processes.