From Istanbul to Saas-Fee: Holding Complexity Together with Fulya Kurter

The Crisis of Imagination and the Power of Art with Fulya KurterIn the eighth episode of our 30th-anniversary series, we hear a profound reflection from Fulya Kurter, an expressive arts facilitator, psychodramatist, and the founder of the Expressive Arts Institute in Istanbul, Turkey. In this deeply moving episode, listeners will explore:Fulya’s personal experience of arriving in the mountains of Saas-Fee in 2018, finding a profoundly human space that helped break old patterns and invited true transformation to emerge.A beautiful, expansive definition of art: witnessing one another, holding complexities, connecting with nature, and staying close to what is human.A reflection on our currently fractured world—marked by war, displacement, and deep divisions—and what Stephen K. Levine described as a global "crisis of imagination".How the expressive arts reawaken our capacity to imagine differently, providing a language that can hold both grief and beauty at the same time, allowing us to act differently.A touching tribute to the international students who find their voices at EGS and carry this vital creative work into schools, clinics, and communities worldwide.Honoring the legacy of founding Dean Paolo Knill, with a heartfelt call to "keep making, listening, and becoming together".Join us for this urgent and poetic reminder of why the expressive arts are more necessary than ever in today's world.