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18th European Arts Therapies Conference​

8-11 September 2026

PULA, CROATIA

DAY THREE PROGRAMME  THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER

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

PANELS  9.00-10.30

PANEL 1

EXPRESSIVE ARTS​​​​

Location: Pula University, Room 323

Chair: Gabrielle Schmid

Learning, Unlearning, Relearning: Intersectional perspectives on academic art therapy education 

Judith Revers, Claudia Neudecker & Johanna Henschelmann

PANEL 2

ART​

Location: Pula University, Room 338

Chair: Uwe Herrmann

The Supervisee Journey - A Milestone- Based Model in the Art Therapy Supervision.  Process, in First Year Training 

Irit Belity, Ahuvi Oren & Yael Domany 

PANEL 3

MIXED

Location: Pula University, Room 339

Chair: Marián Cao

Revisiting Professional Identity in the Arts Therapies: Core Values, Challenges, and Dialogues within the Arts and Health Field 

Maria d'Elia, Johannes Junker, Angelica Postu

PANEL 4

MIXED

Location: Pula University, Room 343

Chair: Ofira Honig

In Search of Ithaca: Exploring the Complexity of Creative Arts Therapies 

Susan van Hooren, Annemarie Abbing, Marc Willemsen &
Anna-Eva Prick 

PANEL 5

DRAMA

Location: Pula University, Room 345

Chair: Richard Hougham

The Drama Therapy Core Processes: A Journey Across Continents 

Jane Bourne, Rinat Feniger-Schaal, Becky Wilburn, Jason S. Frydman, Angelle Cook

PANEL 6

MIXED

Location: Pula University, Room 356b

Chair: Ann Maes

Publishing in the Age of Iteration: Repetition, Return, and Renewal in the Arts Therapies

Jason Butler, Vicky Karkou & Zoe Moula

PANEL 7

ART

Location: Pula University, Room 363

Chair: David Home

Returning to Cheyenne River: Art Based Service Learning in Art Therapy Education

Katherine Jackson, Heather Denning, Megan Seaman, Melissa Hladak, Monica Brown

PANEL 8

DRAMA

Location: Room 276, Pula University

Chair: Mathieu Van der Straeten

Stories, roles and resistance from Penelope to the present day

Maria Hodermarska, Adam D.-F. Stevens & Anna Seymour

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 Mughda Shivapurkar
THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN

WORKSHOP 4

ART   

Location: Room 255, Pula University

'I don't like travelling' – Ithaca for ever?

Irina Katz-Mazilu

WORKSHOP 5

ART   

Location: Room 128, 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

Mythlab: On Twists and Turns

Ben Haggerty & Steph Brittain

WORKSHOP 7

DRAMA   

Location: Room 246, Pula University

'Crossing Thresholds: Dwelling in the liminal when return is not possible'

Atalandi Apergi

WORKSHOP 8

DRAMA   

Location: Room 108, Pula University

'La Huesera' – Workshop Shadow Theater about Resilience and Death

Marilena Muratori

WORKSHOP 9 

DANCE   

Location: Room 109, 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 107, Pula University

Patterns of Experiencing: The Art of Integration as cycles of recalibration, not one destination…

Kim Swan

WORKSHOP 12

MIXED   

Location: Room 258, Pula University

Repetition (interruption) and return: finding one’s Ithaca on the parenthood journey 

Sarah Speziali 

WORKSHOP 13

MIXED   

Location: Room 232, 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 & Beatriz Oliva

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

Singing about the dark times: Creation and Resistance in the arts therapies

Edited by Marian Cão, Richard Hougham and Sarah Scoble

Location: Pula University Garden 

PAPERS  15.15-16.45

PAPER SESSION 1

MIXED & ART 

Chair: Gabriele Schmid  

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 

Chair: Marius den Otter    

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

Chair: Dave Home 

Location: Room 363, Pula University

Paper 1

The Sisyphean Task of Recovery: Clay Art Therapy as a Harm-Reduction Voyage for Adult Male Substance Users

Joshua Kin-man Nan 

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Paper 2

Empowering Life Stories: Meaning-Making through Arts Therapies in Forensic Care

Suzanne Haeyen

PAPER SESSION 4

ART

Chair: Harald Gruber  

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

Chair: Marian Cao  

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

​Chair: Mathieu Van der Straeten   

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

Chair: Uwe Herrmann  

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 8

MUSIC 

Chair: Ann Maes 

Location: Room 338, Pula University

Paper 1

Music Therapy as Cyclical Participatory Inquiry: revisiting a project after 25 years

Cathy Warner

Paper 2

'I feel more like myself' – Turning points and experienced changes in music therapy

Tiia-Liina Raittila and Esa Ala-Ruona

PAPER SESSION 9

ART

Chair: Gerben Roefs  

Location: Room 323, Pula University

Paper 1

Playfulness in Creative Arts Therapies: Its Effects and Neurophysiological Mechanisms 

Shoshi Keisari

Paper 2

Artistic Journey Through Migration: An Auto ethnographic Return to the Self 

Vera Heller 

SUNSET BOAT TRIP  19.00

SUNSET BOAT TRIP

A panoramic boat trip around the Brijuni National Park archipelago

Tickets available at reception. Cost to be confirmed.

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