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18th European Arts Therapies Conference​

8-11 September 2026

PULA, CROATIA

DAY FOUR PROGRAMME  FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER

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To read the abstract for an event click on the 'view abstract' link beside each description

PERFORMANCE  9.00-9.30

Homebeing: Parallel Cycles

Jessica Bax, Bas van Geest, Sandra Nypels, Gerben Roefs, Judith
Seepma & Bert Weijdema

Location: Istrian National Theatre 

KEYNOTE  9.30-10.30

KEYNOTE  

Location: Istrian National Theatre

The Geometry of healing: Points, Lines, Circles: Pathways of Transformation in the Arts Therapies 

Salvo Pitruzzella 

WORKSHOPS  11.30-13.30

WORKSHOP 1 

ART  

Location: Room 260, Pula University

Drawing Lines and Shaping Forms: Journeys of Returning and Repetition in Art Therapy

Katherine Frankel

WORKSHOP 2 

ART  

Location: Room 155, Pula University

Spirit Boats: An Eco-Art Therapy Journey of Return

Ellen Speert

WORKSHOP 3 

ART  

Location: Room 258, Pula University

Temple of Truth and Dreams - A collective dreaming sphere where memory, image and meaning ripple through shared resonance and return.

Melissa King

WORKSHOP 4 

ART  

Location: TBC 

Art Therapy and Neurodivergence: A Journey in Attunement through the Triadic Relationship

Huma Durrani

WORKSHOP 5 

DRAMA  

Location: Room 255, Pula University

Widening the circle of repetition through the other: Psychotherapeutic Playback Theatre

Ronen Kowalsky

WORKSHOP 6 

DRAMA  

Location: Room 240, Pula University

Exploring Capitalism, Colonialism and Racism in a Liberation Based Peer Supervision Group

Amanda Rothman

WORKSHOP 7 

DRAMA  

Location: Room 246, Pula University

You do not have to wait for them to come around: familial estrangement and the queer imagination

Avery Rabbitt

WORKSHOP 8 

DRAMA  

Location: Room 353a, Pula University

An Embodied Return to Adventure: Reflections on the Art of Running as a Creative Act of Rhythm, Ritual and Repetition

Stephanie Turner

WORKSHOP 9 

DANCE

Location: Room 356a, Pula University

Flowing the River of Integration: A Solution-Focused Journey through Dance and Movement

Terje Kaldur

WORKSHOP 10 

MUSIC

Location: Room 232, Pula University

Smart Improv: the art of sign language for musical improvisation based on music therapy principles

Matijs de Roo

WORKSHOP 11 

MIXED

Location: Room 237, Pula University

Home in Repetition: The Evoked Mask and the Journey of the Self

Jesica Dounce Pereztagle

WORKSHOP 12 

MIXED

Location: Room 235, Pula University

The Evolving Archetype of the Internalized Laestrygonians and Cyclops: Transforming through Systematic Deconstruction and Reconstruction

Diana Zuican

WORKSHOP 13 

MIXED

Location: Room 234, Pula University

Ring a ring o’ roses: Strengthening dyadic connections though joint creativity in a group context

Shravani Purandare 

WORKSHOP 14 

MIXED

Location: Room 280, Pula University

Expressive Therapies Continuum: An Inclusive Journey for Expressive Arts Therapies

Lisa Hinz

WORKSHOP 15 

EXPRESSIVE

Location: Room 285, Pula University

Re-Enacting Borderlands: Tending to the Fragments of Archives, Memory and Home

Savneet Talwar

PAPERS  14.45-16.15

PAPER SESSION 1 

DRAMA & ART 

Chair: Barbara van de Loo  

Location: Room 366, Pula University

Paper 1 

The Listening stone-Dramatherapy with War-Affected Children- Breaking Cycles of Violence through Value and Belonging

Donna Jennings

Paper 2 

Monsters, Bombs and Hurricanes 

Tamara González-Casado 

PAPER SESSION 2 

ART & DANCE

Chair: Adrienne McDermid-Thomas 

Location: Room 365, Pula University

Paper 1 

In what ways do socially grounded practices of creativity resist and reimagine institutional and discursive power structures?

Susan Hogan

Paper 2 

Returning Home and Remembering 

Mojca Kasjak

PAPER SESSION 3

MUSIC & ART

Chair: Agnieszka Łuciuk-Wojczuk  

Location: Room 364, Pula University

Paper 1 

Sailing through dementia’s neuropsychiatric storms: active elements of music therapy as compass beyond Poseidon’s reach 

Koert van Essen

Paper 2 

Finding Ithaca in the Fading Mind: A Case Study on Enhancing Psychoemotional Well-Being through Positive Art Therapy in Dementia

Ausra Sebeikaitė

PAPER SESSION 4

MIXED & MUSIC

Chair: Marika Ratnik 

Location: Room 363, Pula University

Paper 1 

Community Arts-Based Supervision: A Model for Collective Learning and Support

Carmen Oprea & Lindsay Clarke

Paper 2 

Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Supervision of Music Therapy: Ithaca as Secure Base

Serena Jenks 

PAPER SESSION 5

MUSIC & DRAMA

Chair: Richard Hougham 

Location: Room 356b, Pula University

Paper 1 

Re-awakening a Thirst for the Journey through Musical Encounters: from Sleeping Beauty to Captain of the Ship

Katie Bycroft

Paper 2 

Return to Self: The Interplay of Self and Others and its Effects on Mental Health 

Praveen Jain

PAPER SESSION 6

DRAMA & MIXED

Chair: Caroline Frizell 

Location: Room 345, Pula University

Paper 1 

Postdramatic Possibilities of Dramatherapy and their Applications to Trauma

Jean Francois-Jacques

Paper 2 

'Ulysses in the hood': Mapping the community to limit gang warfare

Sandrine Pitarque

PAPER SESSION 7

ART

Chair: Aoife Ní Labhradha  

Location: Room 343, Pula University

Paper 1 

Repetition and Return in Trauma Recovery: A Structured Four-Session Art Therapy Protocol for War-Affected Populations 

Jasmina Pacek 

Paper 2 

From Repetition to Transformation: Art Therapy and the Weight of Transgenerational Trauma 

Odette Chesnot

PAPER SESSION 8

MIXED & ART

Chair: Marian Cao 

Location: Room 339, Pula University

Paper 1 

Filmmaking as an Alchemical Vessel: A Journey Inward

Judyta Potocka

Paper 2 

In Search for the Perfect Pebble 

Gabriele Schmid 

PAPER SESSION 8

DRAMA & DANCE

Chair: Henriette Bloemenkamp  

Location: Room 338, Pula University

Paper 1 

Beads of Becoming: Ritual and Reflection in Mapping the Lived Body through a Drama Therapeutic Projective Task

Nonkululeko Vilakazi 

Paper 2 

Applying the Move into Balance Method™: Daily Movement Adventures for Well-being in the Sedentary Workplace

Gillian Hipp

PLENARY  16.45-17.45

PLAYBACK PLENARY

Location: Pula University Gardens

Conductors

 Julie Deconinck and Mathieu Van der Straeten

CLOSING CELEBRATION  19.30-22.30

CLOSING CELEBRATION

The closing ceremony will take place at this address:

Dom hrvatskih branitelja, Leharova ulica 1, 52100 Pula 

Location: TBC

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