Om oss

Empowering through experience together

We met in Norwegian nature, with long and intense lives behind us and a shared longing for deep existential conversations, curiosity, creativity, and playfulness. We soon realised we complement and challenge each other in a way that creates a strong, supportive energy we want to share with others.

Both of us are deeply connected to art. I (Dagmara) am a visual artist working with various materials, commissions, and exhibitions, and after my pedagogical studies I chose to focus more on working directly with people. I have long used art and movement as forms of self-therapy and wrote my Art and Society thesis at OsloMet on how philosophical dialogue within aesthetic experience can shift perspectives and activate care for one self and the world.

We created Existential Experience Therapy based on Sven's profession as a gestalt therapist and my philosophical, pedagogical, and artistic background. For us, this work is an ongoing existential exploration: bringing together philosophy, creative expression, and movement to music as a therapeutic and community-building way of being together.

Dagmara Pater and Sven Dybwad Haagensen.