Arts and Humanities

Abstract: The concept of sense of place has long been central to human geography, environmental psychology, landscape studies, and heritage discourse. Traditionally understood as the emotional, experiential, and symbolic meanings people attach to places, sense of place has evolved alongside changing interpretations of landscape and heritage. This paper revisits the concept of sense of place and critically examines its interaction with landscape and heritage frameworks. By tracing theoretical developments and exploring contemporary challenges—such as globalization, heritage commodification, and climate change—the paper argues that sense of place remains a vital integrative concept. It enables a deeper understanding of how landscapes and heritage sites are lived, remembered, contested, and managed. The paper concludes that recognizing the dynamic and relational nature of sense of place is essential for sustainable landscape planning and inclusive heritage practices.

Abstract: Artificial intelligence is commonly portrayed as a technical innovation that inaugurates a new social epoch defined by efficiency, automation, and rational governance. This article advances a dialectical anthropological critique of such narratives by situating artificial intelligence within the historical dynamics of capitalism, colonial power, and struggles over labor and knowledge. Drawing on Marxian political economy, Fanonian analyses of colonial domination, Gramscian theories of hegemony, Polanyian insights on market disembedding, and Comaroffian critiques of contemporary capitalism, the article conceptualizes artificial intelligence as a social relation rather than a neutral technology. It argues that artificial intelligence represents an intensified moment in the commodification of intelligence itself, reshaping labor, epistemology, and governance while reproducing global inequalities. At the same time, artificial intelligence generates contradictions that destabilize established regimes of value and authority, opening spaces for contestation and alternative futures. By foregrounding historical materiality, contradiction, and praxis, the article calls for a critical anthropology of artificial intelligence that is attentive to power, committed to decolonial epistemologies, and oriented toward emancipatory transformation.

Abstract: The concept of civilization has long occupied a central place in historical, sociological, and anthropological inquiry. Classical theories frequently portrayed civilizations as coherent cultural entities, developmental stages, or large-scale historical organisms. More recent scholarship, however, has emphasized fragmentation, power asymmetries, colonial entanglements, epistemic plurality, and the contested nature of social order. This article proposes a relational theory of civilizational intelligence that seeks to bridge these traditions without reducing civilizations to unified organisms or deterministic historical trajectories.Rather than treating civilizations as bounded entities possessing collective minds, the article conceptualizes them as contested relational assemblages composed of heterogeneous actors, institutions, knowledge systems, infrastructures, ecological processes, and power relations. Civilizational intelligence is defined as the capacity of these assemblages to negotiate complexity, manage conflict, integrate diverse forms of knowledge, respond to socio-ecological transformations, and sustain conditions for collective adaptation under uncertainty.Drawing on complexity theory, political ecology, critical governance studies, anthropology, and decolonial scholarship, the article develops a multidimensional framework organized around relational adaptation, epistemic plurality, power-sensitive governance, ecological embeddedness, collective learning, and anticipatory coordination. Comparative illustrations from historical and contemporary societies demonstrate how adaptive capacities emerge not from systemic coherence alone but from the dynamic interaction of cooperation, contestation, and institutional transformation.The article argues that future civilizational resilience in the Anthropocene will depend less on technological sophistication or economic expansion than on the capacity to navigate diversity, inequality, ecological constraints, and planetary interdependence. In this sense, civilizational intelligence is not a property of civilizations as unified entities but an emergent and continuously negotiated process operating across multiple scales of human organization.

Abstract: This article examines the relationship between middle-class formations and authoritarian governance through the prism of social reproduction, insecurity, and political continuity. Rather than interpreting middle-class engagements with authoritarian regimes primarily through ideology, coercion, or political alignment, the article argues that authoritarianism increasingly functions as a reproductive regime: a set of institutional, moral, and bureaucratic arrangements that promise continuity amid economic volatility, institutional erosion, and social fragmentation. Positioned between declining material security and enduring aspirations of stability, middle classes emerge as a contradictory social formation whose strategies of reproduction are both enabled and constrained by authoritarian power.Drawing on Marxist theories of reproduction, Polanyi’s analysis of social protection, Bourdieu’s work on habitus and distinction, Weber’s sociology of authority, and anthropological scholarship on governance and uncertainty, the article conceptualizes authoritarianism as a historically situated response to crises of reproduction. Through comparative illustrations from Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, it shows how authoritarian governance reorganizes access to housing, education, employment, legality, and respectability—key infrastructures of middle-class life. The article contributes to dialectical anthropology by reframing authoritarianism as a dynamic field of class practice, contradiction, and struggle rather than a fixed political form.

Abstract: Digital humanities has become increasingly capable of scaling textual analysis, yet the interpretive labour that sustains its claims often remains obscured behind visualisations, classifiers, and annotation layers. This study responds to that methodological tension by introducing a Stylistic Diagnostic Protocol for Ḥadīth that treats stylistic judgment as an explicit object of method rather than an implicit background intuition. Using Prophetic Ḥadīth as a working corpus, it examines how evaluative interpretation can be rendered reproducible without eroding analytical depth. The protocol operationalises a set of markers including lexical restraint, semantic proportionality, rhetorical coherence, pragmatic alignment, and variant stability, tracing their patterned behaviour across defined units of analysis and structured annotation schemas as points of interface between inherited scholarly practice and formalised digital procedures. It unfolds through a stepwise workflow of text delimitation, segmentation, genre profiling, marker extraction, cross-variant testing, and structured reporting, with each stage designed to preserve a transparent audit trail of analytical decisions and interpretive constraints. Rather than supplanting transmission-based scholarship or issuing definitive judgments of authenticity, the framework generates bounded stylistic integrity profiles that function as diagnostic signals of relative stability, tension, or anomaly within a critically mediated digital research environment. Whether such formalisation fosters convergence or clarifies the contours of principled disagreement remains an open and generative question for digitally supported humanities inquiry.

Abstract: This article examines how different configurations of geographical indication (GI) law and intangible heritage policy shape the governance of cheese heritage, through a comparative analysis of Camembert de Normandie in France and Canastra cheese within the broader artisanal Minas cheese system in Brazil. While Camembert is a globally renowned PDO cheese that remains absent from UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage lists, artisanal Minas cheeses have recently been inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List despite their comparatively modest international visibility. Drawing on documentary analysis of UNESCO nomination materials, IPHAN safeguarding dossiers, the EU GI register and selected academic and media sources, the article situates these cases within critical debates on terroir, heritagisation and sustainability. The analysis shows that Camembert exemplifies a mature terroir governance regime centred on PDO institutions and domestic cultural politics, whereas Canastra illustrates a more hybrid landscape in which national and international intangible heritage recognition has overtaken the consolidation of cooperative structures, territorial branding and tourism linkages. The comparison argues that UNESCO’s 2003 Convention functions less as a universal recognition mechanism than as one contingent instrument within national agri‑food and heritage governance assemblages, whose effects depend on pre‑existing institutional fields and community–state. Conceptually, the article contributes to critical heritage studies by problematising “list‑centrism”—the prioritisation of UNESCO inscription over domestic reforms and cooperative governance—and by showing how foodways become key sites where GI regimes and ICH – Intangible Cultural Heritage frameworks intersect, overlap and diverge, producing uneven capacities for producers and regions to mobilise cheese heritage as a cultural and economic resource.

Abstract: Research on sacred discourse has expanded across linguistics, rhetoric, discourse studies, theology, and hermeneutics. However, existing scholarship remains conceptually fragmented, with studies often examining language, rhetoric, interpretation, or communication in isolation. As a result, sacred discourse has yet to be established as a distinct domain of stylistic inquiry. This article addresses that gap by proposing Sacred Discourse Stylistics (SDS) as an interdisciplinary field for the systematic study of sacred discourse. Drawing on stylistics, rhetoric, discourse analysis, pragmatics, hermeneutics, and theolinguistics, the article identifies four defining characteristics of sacred discourse: sacrality, aestheticity, hermeneuticity, and performativity. It further develops the Five-Layer Sacred Discourse Stylistics Framework (SDSF), comprising phonological, lexico-grammatical, rhetorical-stylistic, pragmatic-communicative, and hermeneutic-interpretive dimensions. In addition, the article proposes a methodological toolkit integrating close stylistic reading, rhetorical analysis, cognitive stylistics, corpus stylistics, critical stylistics, and computational approaches. Finally, it outlines a research agenda spanning sacred text studies, comparative sacred discourse, translation, digital humanities, and artificial intelligence. The article contributes a theoretical foundation, an integrated analytical framework, and a future research agenda for the emerging field of Sacred Discourse Stylistics.

Abstract: This study explores the potential of the Petik Laut ritual as a medium for environmental education in the Muncar fishing port area, Banyuwangi Regency, Indonesia. Petik Laut, a village purification ritual of the Muncar fishing community, is held annually on the 15th of Muharram. The series of Petik Laut (from preparation to implementation) embodies education through action, narrative, and reflection. Environmental, social, and cultural education in the Muncar fishing port area aligns with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and serves as an implementation of Law No. 5 of 2017 on the Advancement of Culture and the President’s vision. The ritual is structured using aesthetic principles and has the potential to become an engaging performance. This ethnographic study followed three stages: data collection, analysis, and presentation of the analysis results. Secondary data was supplemented with field data gathered through observation, participant observation, focus group discussions, and in-depth interviews with selected informants. Data analysis was conducted continuously, and data interpretation involved contextualizing each piece of data within the broader relationship to the other data. The results of the analysis were presented verbally and supported by functional nonverbal documentation. The research findings indicate that the practice of the Petik Laut ritual educates and enhances literacy regarding the natural, social, and cultural environments.

Abstract: The study of sacred discourse has attracted growing attention across linguistics, discourse studies, communication, rhetoric, theology, and religious studies. Although these disciplines have generated valuable insights into how sacred meanings are expressed, communicated, and interpreted, their contributions remain fragmented, limiting integration between linguistic, rhetorical, communicative, theological, and cognitive perspectives. This article proposes Sacred Discourse Studies (SDS) as an emerging interdisciplinary field dedicated to the systematic study of how sacred meanings are constructed, communicated, interpreted, negotiated, and transformed through discourse. Adopting a conceptual and integrative review approach, the article examines major traditions relevant to the study of sacred discourse, including language and religion, theolinguistics, discourse studies of religion, sacred rhetoric, communication theory, hermeneutics, and cognitive-semiotic approaches. The analysis identifies four recurring challenges: disciplinary fragmentation, the absence of an integrative framework, limited dialogue between scholarly traditions, and the growing complexity of sacred discourse in digital and computational environments. In response, the article develops a conceptual framework for SDS that brings together scriptural traditions, analytical domains, and emerging research frontiers. The framework encompasses Qur'anic, Prophetic, and Biblical forms of discourse while integrating stylistic, pragmatic, rhetorical, and semiotic approaches, alongside emerging areas such as computational methods, digital religion, and AI-assisted interpretation. The article argues that SDS provides a shared intellectual space for connecting previously separate traditions of inquiry and offers a foundation for a more coherent and comprehensive study of sacred discourse across disciplinary, scriptural, and technological boundaries.

Abstract: Community extension programs in higher education often remain limited to service or livelihood training, leaving their pedagogical potential underexplored. This study, conducted in Academic Year 2024–2025 at St. Michael’s College of Iligan, Inc., investigates U-Rock, a restorative community extension initiative designed in partnership with Bahay Pag-asa to reframe extension program as education. Anchored in Critical Pedagogy, Restorative Education, Psychosocial Wellness Theories, and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy, the program integrates literacy, catechism, and wellness activities into structured learning experiences for the youth in conflict with the Law. Addressing existing gaps, the study engages juvenile offenders within HEI extension program, develops an interdisciplinary model that combines literacy, catechism, and wellness support, and reframes extension from service into pedagogy. Using a multi-method qualitative approach that integrates case study, narrative inquiry, and ethnographic observation, the research involved thirty participants including students, faculty, Bahay Pag-asa personnel, parents, and youth residents. Findings reveal that U-Rock empowers youth through literacy, moral reflection, and psychosocial resilience while simultaneously transforming SMCII students through empathy, civic responsibility, and applied learning. Ten salient themes emerged, highlighting Extension as Pedagogy, Operationalizing CHED Mandates, Literacy as Empowerment, Values Formation and Moral Reflection, Psychosocial Resilience, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Student Transformation, Institutional Partnership and Mission Alignment, Distinction from Conventional Models, and Contribution to Global Curriculum Discourse. Collectively, these insights demonstrate that community extension program can function as restorative pedagogy, advancing community rehabilitation and institutional mission, while offering a replicable model for higher education institutions to innovate curriculum and respond to the needs of significant youth in the periphery.

Abstract: Brazilian wine regions shaped by Italian immigration have long mobilized European lineage to legitimize their production, yet they operate in markets that increasingly reward differentiation, symbolic clarity and specialized territorial identities. Focusing on the Altos de Pinto Bandeira Denominação de Origem (DO) and the Wines of Brazil export program, this article proposes a five‑dimension framework for analyzing wine heritage as a communicative and territorial resource in branding communication: time depth, continuity, recognition, valorization and strategic fit. Using a nested multiple case study of five DO‑licensed wineries and the national branding program, based on documentary and website analysis, it codes each case along these dimensions and derives a typology of heritage strategies (inherited‑fit, reactivated‑fit, strategic, invented‑fit, misaligned). The results show that heritage becomes most communicatively effective when it exhibits strong strategic fit with both territorial identity and product category, particularly in sparkling wine, where Brazil has achieved its clearest institutional recognition and international visibility. The Altos de Pinto Bandeira DO functions as heritage infrastructure, turning family and cooperative narratives into territorially anchored communicative assets. The article argues that a sparkling‑centred strategy aligning Italian‑Brazilian heritage with contemporary representations of “Brazilianness” can strengthen Brazil’s wine territorial brand and outlines how the proposed framework can inform the strategic communication of territorial brands in other emerging wine regions seeking place‑based development through geographical indications.

Abstract: This paper examines how the travel intention of students is correlated with their mental health, in terms of stress reduction and psychological wellbeing. The study employs a combined model that integrates the Theory of Planned Behavior and Stress Recovery Theory to determine the role of travel intention, which is based on the travel self-efficacy, the pressure of social influence, the value of the travel experience, the perception of affordability, and the attitude towards tourism in affecting the mental health outcome of students. The paper examines the mediating capacities of travel involvement and social connectedness, and the moderating capacities of nature connectedness and travel frequency. Semi-structured interviews with 15 university students and survey among 604 students in various universities in Bangladesh were used to collect data. Hypotheses were tested using PLS-SEM. Findings indicate that travel intention enhance psychological wellbeing and reduce stress, and travel involvement and social connectedness are important mediators. These relations are mediated by nature connectedness and frequency of travel, which increases the restorative effect of travel. The results indicate that tourism could be a viable approach to student mental health promotion, which has both practical and theoretical consequences on university policy and future tourism psychological studies.

Abstract: This essay discusses feminist ideas in connection to the occulture present in opera, musical theatre, and film, focusing on femme fatales, tricksters and ‘wicked women’ in a transcultural approach to religion, (Western) esotericism, and the performing arts. A culturally critic debate is facilitated here via the spiritual-scientific embodiment of Afro-Brazilian traditions, as seen through the figure of Pombagira — a Brazilian occultural creation of a female enchantress with mystical powers connected to healing and sex, often placed in patriarchal opposition to her male counterpart, Exu. Drawing on Christopher Partridge’s notions of occulture and Walter Mignolo’s understanding of decoloniality, the Western gendering imposed on Pombagira as a purveyor of Evil is discussed as both mythology and potential epistemicide. The thesis statement presented here is that the Pombagira episteme is an underlying emblem throughout art and scholarship invested in queering essential binary categories of womanhood, as seen in staged adaptations of Verdi’s La forza del destino (1862), Bizet’s Carmen (1875), and numerous cinematic Lola incarnations — Marlene Dietrich’s in Der blaue Engel (1930), Gwen Verdon’s in Damn Yankees (1958), Almodóvar’s in Todo sobre mi madre (1999). This indisciplinary reading connects Gloria Anzaldúa's queer feminist practice of spiritual mestizaje with the Pombagira as an occultural anti-patriarchal force.

Abstract: Goal: This study aims to: (1) analyze the influence of human logical thinking on the use of mathematical concepts in culture; (2) identify aspects of human logical thinking relevant to ethnomathematics; and (3) explain the relationship between human logical thinking and the development of mathematical concepts in society, specifically within the geometric patterns of Batak Toba ulos and Mandailing woven fabrics. Methods: A qualitative literature review was conducted. The researcher collected and analyzed 32 sources (peer-reviewed journals, books, conference proceedings) published between 2013-2026. Thematic analysis was used with three a priori themes: patterns and relationships, systems and structures, and problem-solving. Social implications: Recognizing mathematics as embedded in cultural practices supports culturally responsive mathematics education, preserves indigenous knowledge systems, and challenges the view of mathematics as culturally neutral. This helps educators design contextual learning and policymakers integrate local wisdom into curricula.

Abstract: The accelerating influence of artificial intelligence in education raises urgent questions about how human dignity, cultural continuity, and ethical responsibility can be safeguarded in technologically saturated contexts. To respond to this concern, this study adopted a qualitative concept-generative design, drawing on narrative inquiry, focus groups, ethnographic observation, document analysis, and reflexive journaling to explore the role of liberal arts education at St. Michael’s College of Iligan, Inc., Philippines. Addressing a gap in scholarship that often sidelines Global South perspectives, the research foregrounded the voices of thirty (30) CAS students whose insights reached data saturation that produced ten significant themes. Guided by critical pedagogy, sociocultural theory, and Wellness and Resilience Theories, the findings affirmed that liberal arts education is not peripheral but foundational. This enables students to interrogate bias, foster ethical reflection, and resist algorithmic authority. Institutional frameworks such as CHED memoranda, PAASCU accreditation standards, ISO 21001:2018, and RVM EMC’s QTIME concepts reinforced the responsibility of higher education to embed liberal arts into curriculum design as safeguards for human futures. Results showed how liberal arts cultivate resilience, adaptability, and civic responsibility, aligning with Catholic Ignacian Marian values while contributing to Global South perspectives that challenge Eurocentric narratives of AI literacy. By integrating civilizational knowledge with technological literacy, liberal arts classrooms foreground dialogue, cultural archives, and reflexive engagement. This ensures that such Liberal Arts remain responsive to both heritage and innovation. The research underscores that only liberal arts education enables us to remain more human in the digital age. Mirroring UNESCO’s challenge, this paper demonstrates SDG compliant pathways that affirms the global relevance of liberal arts in shaping ethical futures for AI. It concludes with a challenge that institutions must move beyond rhetorical affirmation and embed liberal arts centrally in AI governance. Liberal Arts should never be placed at the periphery but be recognized as decisive infrastructures accountable to justice, human dignity, and cultural resilience.

Abstract: This study examines the transformation of human capital mobility in the digital era under the accelerating pace of socio-technological change and analyzes the resulting challenges for sustainable development. It identifies the key characteristics and drivers of contemporary human capital mobility and considers their broader implications for social development and governance. The research is based on a structured review, systematization, and critical comparison of academic literature and analytical reports from international organizations. The findings show that contemporary mobility is characterized by pace of change, pervasiveness, and globality and is driven by digital transparency, remote work, AI, automation, and state support. Contemporary human capital mobility leads to the rapid redistribution of human capital, the reorganization of social space, and shifts in social values, while the pace of socio-technological change intensifies these effects and makes adaptation more difficult. The main challenge for sustainable development lies in the growing mismatch between the pace of socio-technological change and the capacity of governance institutions, infrastructure, and social institutions to adapt.

Abstract: A central challenge in the structural diagnostics of paintings is the accurate, repeatable non-invasive, ideally non-contact, assessment for the detailed documentation of subsurface defects such as detachments and cracks generated by inter-layer de-cohesion resulting in material degradation and interrelated propagation of defects; all of which precede visible detection of surface damage. The ultimate aim is the protection of the precious irreplaceable painted surface. Currently advanced imaging techniques used in structural diagnosis of artworks, including Digital Holographic Speckle Pattern Interferometry (DHSPI), Infrared Thermography (IRT), Digital Speckle Shearography (DSS), are used in providing the valuable structural information. Main contribution is in subsurface defect localisation and despite differences in resolution, displacement sensitivity, defect characterisation, depth discrimination, efficiency of data retrieval, info utilisation and quantitative phase retrieval, under the especially demanding constrains in the investigation in Cultural Heritage (CH) documentation, these techniques can trace subsurface and bulk discontinuities’ safely and efficiently. Digital Holographic Speckle Pattern Interferometry (DHSPI), is a custom-made interferometry system, based on principles of holographic and speckle interferometry, developed to respond to the unique combination of requirements in CH and for structural documentation in paintings diagnostics; which either on wood or wall represent a continuous mechanics problem of a solid object with an inhomogeneous stratigraphic anisotropic construction that mathematically becomes an interferometric phase-field multi-physics interpretation problem. The portable DHSPI lab prototype aims to solve it, implements highly coherent diverged laser beams for safely illuminating large scale surfaces and recording digital sequence of images of the surface as displaced after a transient alteration; which are processed under numerical phase reconstruction algorithms to provide a whole and local phase-resolvable full-field measurement of out-of-plane surface-normal displacements induced by controlled low thermal excitation. It combines a novel thermo-mechanical monitoring methodology for substantiate a richer description of defect morphology features and structure dynamics. In this work the conceptual foundation of DHSPI as a CH tool is presented, its evolution from classical holographic interferometry to digital implementations with sequential interferometry and progressive implementation of sequential thermo-interferometry application is discussed, while DHSPI applicability to the multi-layered structures of CH as appear in wall- panel- and canvas paintings, is analysed. Related systems are also discussed in relevance of CH demands. Particular emphasis is placed on interferometric sensitivity mechanisms, fringe pattern wrapped phase utilisation and unwrapped phase-map interpretation, excitation strategies, and comparative performance against established non-destructive testing techniques. The presented critical technical and advanced methodological review briefly also explores emerging perspectives, including multi-modal instrumentation as hybrid DHSPI–thermography AI-assisted automatic interpretation. and the lab-based conceptual framework of multi-channel holographic recording for simultaneous displacement component extraction. By synthesis in optical metrology and heritage diagnostics developments, this work positions DHSPI within a broader era-transition from passive-imaging toward information-based diagnostics through the post-imaging interference analysis, a displacement-based structural metrology approach, contributing to the advancement in multi-modal preventive conservation strategies for paintings and large-format heritage surfaces. It proposes to hold-on to DHSPI as a high-sensitivity monitoring multitask tool capable of guiding implementation of complimentary techniques and addressing unresolved challenges in painting conservation from standardised documentation protocols to research on aging deterioration mechanisms.

Abstract: This article examines cross-Strait variation in Chinese baseball terminology through a document-based comparison of two primary sources: the terminology appendix contained in the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association’s baseball rules and the China Baseball Association’s Basic Terminology of Baseball standard. Based on Supplementary Dataset S1, a cleaned 363-entry English-Chinese comparison dataset, the study investigates how baseball terms differ across the Strait in documentary coverage, lexical designation, expression style, and communicative relevance. The analysis identifies 214 directly comparable entries with renderings on both sides. Of these, 101 are classified as convergent or near-convergent, while 113 show lexical divergence. A further 149 entries do not enter the directly comparable subset. The findings show that cross-Strait baseball terminology is shaped by more than isolated word-level difference. Taiwan-side terms often preserve compact and conventionalized forms used in baseball practice, whereas Mainland standardized forms frequently display a more explicit and institutionally codified style. The article argues that such variation should not be treated simply as inconsistency, but as specialist-language variation shaped by different historical, institutional, and communicative conditions. On this basis, the article suggests a graded, communication-oriented approach that tolerates low-sensitivity variants, cross-references moderate-sensitivity terms, and coordinates high-sensitivity rule terms for umpiring, commentary, translation, and instruction.

Abstract: This article argues that the fragmentation of International Relations (IR) theory is not only a problem of competing schools, but a deeper ontological dispute over social totality. Realism, liberal institutionalism, constructivism, critical theory, post-structuralism, Global IR, and decolonial approaches each assume a different image of world order and of the human subject. Through conceptual genealogy and critical reconstruction, the article revisits Kant, Hegel, Marx, Lukács, Dussel, Quijano, Mariátegui, Zavaleta Mercado, Wynter, Said, Glissant, Wallerstein, and postcolonial IR. It proposes heterogeneous relational totality as a way beyond both closed systemic determinism and pure fragmentation. This framework rethinks power, agency, temporality, recognition, and emancipation through coloniality, planetary interdependence, and relational human existence.

Abstract: The El Duende ‘one-canvas’ model was developed as an arts-based practice for supervision in art therapy training. Responding to changes in institutional teaching structures, this case review reflects on its use in experiential training groups on one UK-based course, with the aim of developing understanding and theoretical insights that may inform future teaching practice. Eight training group facilitators retrospectively reviewed their experience of the model as applied in five experiential training groups over a three-month period. Data were analysed thematically through an iterative, collaborative, and reflexive process and four core themes were identified. Results are discussed with links made to Donald Winnicott’s ideas of creative destructiveness, use of the object, transitional space, and the holding environment. While limited in scope, results indicate that, through sustained cycles of repetition and return, the ‘one-canvas’ model served to hold intense transformational processes within a condensed timeframe, offering trainees a valuable experiential learning experience. The study builds on established research in the field, expanding previous applications of the model including theoretical understanding, and supporting innovation and reflection in art therapy education. Future research may consider further adaptations to the model, student perspectives, and its influence on personal and professional development.