Regine Kurek, Director, holds a degree in anthroposophical Art Therapy from the Kunststudientstatte, Ottersberg, Germany, and a diploma in Biographical Counselling from the Goetheanum, Switzerland. She has worked for many years as an artist, therapist, and adult educator in Canada, United States, and Europe. In 1989, she established Arscura, School for the Development of Art in the Healing and Social Fields in Toronto. From 1995 -1997, Regine was one of the carrying teachers in the final year of the diploma program at the Tobias School of Art, England and is now a coordinator of its international network for the research of art in the healing and social fields.

Jef Saunders offers biography counselling for individuals and couples, using art and art therapy in private practice and with Pegasus Therapeutics. A graduate of both the Arscura Art for Life and Biography counselling programs he has 25 years experience both in the psychodynamic and anthroposophical fields. As a co-director of Arscura he carries a particular responsibility for the Core Studies program parts, in which he also teaches.

Vibeke Ball has enthusiastically taken up teaching in the Art for Life and Biography programs at Arscura. Her background includes work in public relations,party planning, and the fashion industry in Canada and Europe. Hospice training and volunteering led to her work in therapeutic art with cancer patients and bereaved children. Vibeke has an active interest in astrology and has studied under Elizabeth Tessier at George Brown College. Connecting with the wisdom of nature and life story work with individuals and groups are her favorite ways of working with art.

Dorothy LeBaron has trained in adult learning and destiny learning with Coenraad van Houten, and is a member of the New Adult Learning Movement. She has both the Diploma of Art and Diploma in Biographical Counselling from Arscura School for Living Art. For the past ten years she has been teaching and facilitating workshops using adult learning, destiny learning, art, and biography both in Canada and the U.S.A. She has co-facilitated workshops in collaborative leadership and has recently been using arts-based learning in the field of business and organizations. For the last two decades Dorothy has owned and managed her own retail business.

Melanie Nason is a graduate of the "Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy" Program at the Rudolf Steiner Centre. She then completed a two-year Community Development program with Christopher Schaefer and the three-year Art for Life program at Arscura. Melanie is currently completing the Arscura Biography program and being mentored by Regine Kurek. Besides supporting and co-facilitating courses at Arscura, she has a special interest in community development and outreach. In addition to her work with Arscura, Melanie organizes conferences for various anthroposophical initiatives in the community.

Rihana M. Rutledge recently completed training in Transformative Arts Therapy, Tobias School of Art & Therapy, UK. She is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design University, Toronto and has over eight years experience teaching schools in York Region (K-Grade 6). She has successfully completed training in the Art for Life and Biography Counselling, Arscura, School for the Arts and Social Healing as well as Spiritual Psychotherapy, the Canadian Healing Arts Centre. She facillitates individuals and groups (children, youth, adults) using Art and presents workshops in communities integrating Art as a complementary therapy towards healing.

Ingrid Wharton, psychotherapist, graduated with an MA in Education from the Ontario Insitute for Studies in Eduction.
She took up the Arscura Art for Life program as an enhancement to her therapeutic toolbox. Ingrid has worked as faculty at the Rudolf Steiner Centre as a Destiny Learning and Adult Education facilitator, and teaches in the Core and Art programs at Arscura. Her therapy is grounded in the understanding that the individual is a threefold being: body, soul, and spirit. She believes that each aspect of our being needs to be addressed in our quest for wholeness.