EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR
ARTS THERAPIES EDUCATION
18th European Arts Therapies Conference​
8-11 September 2026
PULA, CROATIA
DAY THREE PROGRAMME THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER
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PANELS 9.00-10.30
PANEL 1
EXPRESSIVE ARTS​​​​
Location: TBC
Chair: TBC
Learning, Unlearning, Relearning: Intersectional perspectives on academic art therapy education
Judith Revers, Claudia Neudecker, Johanna Henschelmann, Irene Grand
PANEL 2
ART​
Location: TBC
Chair: TBC
The Supervisee Journey - A Milestone- Based Model in the Art Therapy Supervision. Process, in First Year Training
Irit Belity…
PANEL 3
MIXED
Location: TBC
Chair: TBC
Revisiting Professional Identity in the Arts Therapies: Core Values, Challenges, and Dialogues within the Arts and Health Field
Maria d'Elia…
PANEL 4
MIXED
Location: TBC
Chair: TBC
In Search of Ithaca: Exploring the Complexity of Creative Arts Therapies
Susan van Hooren…
PANEL 5
DRAMA
Location: TBC
Chair: TBC
The Drama Therapy Core Processes: A Journey Across Continents
Jane Bourne…
PANEL 6
MIXED
Location: TBC
Chair: TBC
Publishing in the Age of Iteration: Repetition, Return, and Renewal in the Arts Therapies
Jason Butler…
PANEL 7
ART
Location: TBC
Chair: TBC
Returning to Cheyenne River: Art Based Service Learning in Art Therapy Education
Katherine Jackson…
PANEL 8
DRAMA
Location: TBC
Chair: TBC
Stories, roles and resistance from Penelope to the present day
Maria Hodermarska…
PANEL 9
EXPRESSIVE ARTS
Location: TBC
Chair: TBC
Learning, Unlearning, Relearning: Intersectional perspectives on academic art therapy education
Judith Revers…
WORKSHOPS 11.30-13.30
WORKSHOP 1
ART
Location: Room 155, Pula University
Voyaging with Materials: Poetic Inquiry for a More-than-human Art Therapy
Adrienne McDermid-Thomas
WORKSHOP 2
ART
Location: Room 260, Pula University
Remembering and Returning through Drawing in Therapy and Education
Unnur Óttarsdóttir
WORKSHOP 3
ART
Location: Room 258, Pula University
Journeys of Return: Indian Psychology, Collective Imagery, and Decolonial Artmaking
Mugda Shivapurkar
WORKSHOP 4
ART
Location: Room 255, Pula University
'I don't like travelling' – Ithaca for ever?
Irina Katz-Mazilu
WORKSHOP 5
ART
Location: Room 240, Pula University
Roadmaps for Reflection, Repetition, and Return: Enhancing Self-reflexivity on the Personal and Professional Significance of Sexual Phenomena
Daniel Blausey
WORKSHOP 6
DRAMA
Location: Room 251, Pula University
On Twists and Turns
Ben Haggerty & Steph Brittain
WORKSHOP 8
DRAMA
Location: Room 356a, Pula University
'La Huesera' – Workshop Shadow Theater about Resilience and Death
Marilena Muratori
WORKSHOP 9
DANCE
Location: Room 353a, Pula University
Returning Waves: Embodied Journey
Sanela Janković
WORKSHOP 10
DANCE
Location: Room 285, Pula University
'In the journey to the unconscious, movement can contain what is beyond the reach of thought and language'
Yifat Shalem-Zafari
WORKSHOP 11
MIXED
Location: Room 260, Pula University
Patterns of Experiencing: The Art of Integration as cycles of recalibration, not one destination…
Kim Swan
WORKSHOP 13
MIXED
Location: Room 255, Pula University
The Scent of Return: Repetition as a Path to Remembering the Self: An embodied journey through scent, movement and image
Marko Šetinc
WORKSHOP 14
MIXED
Location: Room 240, Pula University
Flow and Movement in The Heights: Interdisciplinary Healing for Immigrant and BIPOC Youth in NYC
Susan Gonzalez
WORKSHOP 15
EXPRESSIVE
Location: Room 237, Pula University
Building Trust Together: Creative Pathways for Families in Therapy
Hanneke Goldsteen
BOOK LAUNCH 14.15-14.45
Location: Garden or Room TBC
PAPERS 15.00-16.30
PAPER SESSION 1
MIXED & ART
Location: Room 276, Pula University
Paper 1
Pathways of Transformation: Neuroaesthetics of the Relational Embodied Journey in Creative Arts Therapies
Sharon Vaisvaser
Paper 2
BraArt: Repetition and return in an interdisciplinary study bridging art therapy and neuroscience
Agata Zelechowska
PAPER SESSION 2
MIXED & DRAMA
Location: Room 366, Pula University
Paper 1
kreARTiv – From Shadow into Light. Return journeys to a safe place after environmental disaster
Sabine Koch
Paper 2
Limbo State of Mind: Black Diasporic Repetition and Return through Dramatherapy
Varia Williams
PAPER SESSION 3
ART & MIXED
Location: Room 364, Pula University
Paper 1
Moments that Matter: Disappointment and Change in Art Therapy Through Clients’ Eyes
Limor Goldner
Paper 2
Empowering Life Stories: Meaning-Making through Arts Therapies in Forensic Care
Susanne Haeyen
PAPER SESSION 4
ART
Location: Room 356b, Pula University
Paper 1
Co-Creating Safe Moments: Engaging Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Parents in Their Child’s Art Therapy Processes – Returning to Basic Humility and Reflectiveness
Nehama Grenimann Bauch
Paper 2
Crossings – Group Art Therapy for Ukrainian Refugee Children
Marika Ratnik
PAPER SESSION 5
ART
Location: Room 343, Pula University
Paper 1
Return journeys: art and post-disaster psychosocial recovery in retrospective perspective.
Pamela Reyes Herrera
Paper 2
Curating therapy and exhibition as journeying into the therapeutic journey, on the way to their own 'Ithaca' as a conclusion of group art therapy, for complex trauma in the Museum
Ofira Honig
PAPER SESSION 6
DRAMA & ART
Location: Room 365, Pula University
Paper 1
An Intercultural Journey of Becoming a Drama Therapist: An Autophenomenographic Exploration of Self-Development within a Forest-Dwelling Community
Marija Maijere
Paper 2
Reciprocity and relationships within Nature-based Art Psychotherapy
Nicola Shaw
PAPER SESSION 7
ART & MIXED
Location: Room 363, Pula University
Paper 1
The Sisyphean Task of Recovery
Joshua Kin-man Nan
Paper 2
A Journey Home: The Transformative Role of Creative Therapies in Addiction Recovery
Lilian Ospina
PAPER SESSION 8
ART
Location: Room 280a, Pula University
Paper 1
Informed Consent and Other Ethical Considerations in Community-Based Emergency Interventions: The Case of the Safe Space Open Studios
Elana Lakh
Paper 2
Repetition and Return in an Asian Day Centre art therapy programme
Marian Liebmann
PAPER SESSION 9
MUSIC
Location: Room 338, Pula University
Paper 1
Music Therapy as Cyclical Participatory Inquiry: revisiting a project after 25 years
Cathy Warner
Paper 2
Paper Withdrawn (replacement?)
Presenter
PAPER SESSION 10
ART
Location: Room 323, Pula University
Paper 1
Playfulness in Creative Arts Therapies: Its Effects and Neurophysiological Mechanisms
Shoshi
Paper 2
Artistic Journey Through Migration: An Auto ethnographic Return to the Self
Vera Heller
PAPER SESSION 11
DRAMA & DANCE
Location: Room 339, Pula University
Paper 1
The therapeutic function of role repetition in dramatherapy
Tamara Guenoun
Paper 2
Repetition, Return, and Rewiring: Dance Movement Therapy and the Healing of Chronic Pain
Ronen Meirovich
