EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR
ARTS THERAPIES EDUCATION
18th European Arts Therapies Conference​
8-11 September 2026
PULA, CROATIA
DAY FOUR PROGRAMME FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER
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PERFORMANCE 9.00-9.30
Location: TBC
Details to be confirmed
Details to be confirmed
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 11.00-13.00
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
Roweena Tam
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
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 14.30-16.00
PAPER SESSION 1
DRAMA & ART
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
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
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 SebeikaitÄ—
PAPER SESSION 4
MIXED & MUSIC
Location: Room 363, Pula University
Paper 1
Community Arts-Based Supervision: A Model for Collective Learning and Support
Carmen Oprea
Paper 2
Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Supervision of Music Therapy: Ithaca as Secure Base
Serena Jenks
PAPER SESSION 5
MUSIC & DRAMA
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
Jain Praveen
PAPER SESSION 6
DRAMA & MIXED
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
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
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 (move to another category)?
Gabriele Schmid
PAPER SESSION 8
DRAMA & DANCE
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 16.30-17.30
PLENARY
Location: Pula University Gardens
Conference Rapporteurs
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CLOSING CELEBRATION 19.30-22.30
CLOSING CELEBRATION
The Closing Celebration will take place …
Location: TBC
