Expressive Arts Egypt Organization

We envision Egypt as a vibrant hub for expressive arts therapy in the Middle East and a bridge to the world, where creativity and imagination are embraced as universal resources for healing, education, and social transformation. Through festivals, training programs, and international collaborations, Expressive Arts Egypt seeks to honor the roots of expressive arts while blossoming into the future, uniting diverse voices and cultures in a global movement of art, presence, and care.

Our Vision

Our Mission

Aisha Radwan, MA, MSc(c), PhD(c)
Psychotherapist | Expressive Arts Therapist | Educator

Aisha Radwan is a psychotherapist, expressive arts therapist, and educator specializing in intermodal, trauma-informed, body-centered approaches to healing and transformation. She holds two Master’s degrees in Psychology, including a thesis on Expressive Arts Therapy interventions in trauma healing, and is completing her second Master’s degree at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. She is currently a PhD candidate focusing on Expressive Arts Therapy education through a phenomenological lens.

Aisha is the Founder and Director of the Expressive Arts Egypt Organization and Bayt Salam Holistic Health Centre. She also created the 400-hour Expressive Arts Egypt Diploma Program, which has trained over 70 participants and integrates 300 hours aligned with IEATA registration pathways.

She serves internationally as Regional Co-Chair of the Middle East and Board Member of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA), as well as International Committee Co-Chair of Expressive Arts Without Borders. She is the first recipient in Africa and the Middle East of the IEATA Rising Star Award.

Aisha’s work integrates expressive arts, psychotherapy, and education, supporting embodied, intermodal learning and fostering spaces for creativity, healing, and collective transformation across cultures. She is also the founder of the Expressive Arts Egypt Festival, an annual international gathering that has brought together voices from over 40 countries, advancing dialogue, embodied practice, and the growth of expressive arts therapy regionally and globally.

Biography of the founder

Expressive Arts Egypt is dedicated to fostering healing, growth, and transformation through the power of intermodal expressive arts. We provide culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and phenomenology-based education, training, and community experiences that integrate movement, music, drama, poetry, and visual arts. Rooted in Egypt yet connected globally, we create accessible spaces where individuals and communities can nurture resilience, deepen presence, and reimagine possibilities for well-being and human connection.

About Expressive Arts Therapy

An integrative, intermodal approach to healing and personal growth that invites individuals to explore their lived experience through creativity. Drawing upon visual arts, movement, music, drama, writing, storytelling, and imagination, it opens pathways for emotional well-being, self-discovery, and transformation. Rooted in phenomenological philosophy, Expressive Arts Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that honors each person's unique experience and invites a compassionate presence to what is emerging. Through the movement between artistic modalities, new meanings, insights, and inner resources can naturally unfold. Expressive Arts Therapy is not about artistic skill or creating a perfect product. It is about the process of creation and the wisdom that arises through images, sounds, movements, symbols, and imagination. By engaging the body, senses, emotions, and creativity, Expressive Arts Therapy fosters self-awareness, resilience, and a deeper connection with oneself, others, and the world, offering a pathway toward healing and wholeness.

About Expressive Arts Egypt Organization

Founded by Aisha Radwan in 2015, Expressive Arts Egypt Organization was born from a vision of reconnecting human beings with the arts as a source of creativity, meaning, and shared humanity. Since 2017, the organization's primary focus has been the advancement of Expressive Arts Therapy and Expressive Arts Therapy education.

For over nine years, Expressive Arts Egypt Organization has been cultivating an international community of therapists, educators, artists, students, and seekers committed to healing, creativity, and embodied learning. Through its work, the organization seeks to bridge cultures and disciplines while nurturing individual and collective transformation through the arts.

Today, Expressive Arts Egypt Organization offers six core areas of service:

• Expressive Arts Therapy Sessions: Individual and group psychotherapy and expressive arts therapy sessions offered online and in person for adults, children, couples, and communities seeking healing and personal growth.

• Professional Training: A 400-hour diploma and certification pathway preparing future Expressive Arts practitioners, with all hours recognized toward registration through IEATA, the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association.

• Universities and Higher Education: Experiential lectures, workshops, retreats, and educational programs for students, faculty, and staff, supporting embodied learning, creativity, professional development, and burnout prevention.

• Schools and Youth Programs: Arts-based programs, workshops, and events that promote emotional well-being, creativity, resilience, and social-emotional learning for students and educational communities.

• Corporate and Organizational Well-Being: Experiential workshops, retreats, and employee development programs designed to foster creativity, leadership, team cohesion, resilience, and workplace well-being.

• International Festivals and Retreats: Annual gatherings and immersive journeys in Egypt and beyond, bringing together pioneering and emerging voices from more than 40 countries to explore creativity, healing, ancient wisdom, and our shared humanity.

Rooted in the belief that creativity is essential to human flourishing, Expressive Arts Egypt Organization continues to foster spaces where people can come home to themselves, to one another, and to the living Earth through the transformative power of the arts.

At Expressive Arts Egypt Organization, we believe that creativity is a fundamental human capacity and a powerful pathway toward healing, growth, and transformation. Rooted in phenomenological philosophy and informed by trauma-sensitive, body-centered practices, our approach draws upon the intermodal framework of Expressive Arts Therapy, inviting movement between visual art, movement, writing, voice, imagination, and symbolic expression to access dimensions of experience that often lie beyond words. We view the creative process itself as a form of inquiry, where meaning emerges organically through embodied exploration, relational presence, and compassionate witnessing rather than through interpretation or artistic judgment. Deeply committed to cultural responsiveness and community, we honor the stories, traditions, and lived experiences of those we serve, supporting individuals and communities in reconnecting with their innate creativity, resilience, and capacity for healing and transformation.

Our Approach

She began her journey as an educator in 2006, exploring multiple creative and educational paths over the years, yet discovering her deepest sense of meaning in the moments where creativity became a bridge to healing and transformation in human lives. In 2017, she became a psychotherapist, specializing in emotional, psychological, and relational healing through an integrative approach that combines talk therapy with the transformative power of Expressive Arts Therapy.

She has delivered online and in-person lectures, workshops, and academic programs at universities and institutions worldwide.

In India, she served as faculty for one year at ARCH College of Design & Business. In Ukraine, she facilitated workshops, lectures, and panel discussions for students across several universities, including KSADA Kharkiv University. In the United Kingdom, she delivered lectures at Salford University. In Russia, she presented at the International Expressive Arts Therapy Festival for many years, organized by the EXA Association. In Iran, she contributed to the Faculty of Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children at Allameh Tabatabai University. In the United States (Florida), she participated in the Expressive Arts Florida World Bundle education program.

In Egypt, she has lectured at The Knowledge Hub Universities - Coventry University, The American University in Cairo (AUC), The British University (BUE), CIC Canadian International College, Heliopolis University, UPEI (University of Prince Edward Island).