This study aims to understand the role that creative expression can play in transforming conflicts on both the personal and the political level and opens a discussion around how creative tools can enable meeting points between these two levels. This paper includes ananalysisof six open-ended narrative interviews with artists and peace workersfrom conflict related areas. It en-gages with their perspectives on their own creative expression as well as their view on the relation between their artwork and their healing process at the personal and systemic/political level.Methodologically,this researchis based on Grounded Theory (Clarke2012), Open-EndedNarrative Interview Format and Self Ethnography. These tools offer an open engagement with the pro-cess, acontinuousemergence of categories and themes and enable a critical self-reflectionas theresearcher. The analysis showsthat creative expression ispotentially seen as influential on the personal and political healing pro-cesses for the interview partners. Thisstudy also shows that the intention of making art differs as well as the view on the importance of intentionally or not intentionally using creative tools to heal, both atthe personal and the sys-temic level. Finally, it engages with questions on who is to heal in this world and concludesthat in many ways the personal stories reflect the societalones –vice versa.