EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR
ARTS THERAPIES EDUCATION
18th European Arts Therapies Conference
8-11 September 2026
PULA, CROATIA
DAY TWO PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER
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KEYNOTE 9.00-10.30
Title TBC
Stephanie Brittain and Ben Haggerty
Location: Istrian National Theatre
PAPERS 11.30-13.00
PAPER SESSION 1
ART & MIXED
Chair: to be confirmed
Location: Room 320, Pula University
Paper 1:
Against all Odds
Oihika Chakrabarti
Paper 2:
Repetition as Productive Difference: Living Logic Models in Arts Therapies Evaluation
Dominik Havsteen Franklin
PAPER SESSION 2 ART & DANCE
Chair: to be confirmed
Location: Room 323, Pula University,
Paper 1:
Your Life in me
Maya Gronner-Shamai
Paper 2:
Repetition, Return, and Body Memory as a Compass in Parent-Child Dance movement Therapy in the Face of Ongoing Trauma
Einat Shuper
PAPER SESSION 3
MUSIC & MIXED
Chair: TBC
Location: Room 338, Pula University
Paper 1:
Voice Work in Music Therapy During Times of Continuous Stress: A Qualitative Study of Vocal Techniques and Their Possible Influences
Tamar Avni
Paper 2:
The Story as a Journey: Finding One´s Voice through Creative Arts Therapies in Stuttering Therapy
Masa Budic
PAPER SESSION 4
MIXED & DRAMA
Chair: TBC
Location: Room 339, Pula University
Paper 1:
It’s the journey, not the destination. Effectiveness of group arts therapies compared to group counselling for adults with mixed mental health diagnoses: results from the ERA trial
Catherine Carr
Paper 2:
Reviving parent-child playfulness: Dyadic drama therapy with children with intellectual disability
Amitai Stern
PAPER SESSION 5
DANCE & ART
Chair: TBC
Location: Room 343, Pula University
Paper 1:
Caring in Motion: Dance Care’s Embodied Pedagogies for Socio-Emotional Support and Resilience — An Arts-Based Model for Long-Term Caregiver Education
Rosa Maria Rodríguez-Jiménez
Paper 2:
Introducing Phenomenological Art Therapy, depression (PATd) in Education: Repetition and Return as Pedagogical Principles
Christina Blomdahl
PAPER SESSION 6
ART & EXPRESSIVE
Chair: TBC
Location: Room 345, Pula University
Paper 1:
Reflective practice and ‘repeat and return’ cycles in supervision: Adapting our approach on the Hertfordshire Art Therapy Masters
Val Huet
Paper 2:
The Ongoing Journey: Repetition and Return Through Sand Tray Supervision
Nouf Bazaz
PAPER SESSION 7
ART
Chair: TBC
Location: Room 356b, Pula University
Paper 1:
The Problem of Interpretation in Art Therapy – returning to old and developing new strategies
Karin Dannecker
Paper 2:
The therapeutic framework in art therapy: Exploring ritual as repetition and flexibility as adaptation
Andréa Bédard-Gascon
PAPER SESSION 8
MUSIC & ART
Chair: TBC
Location: Room 363, Pula University
Paper 1:
'There’s No Place Like Home'? : Beyond Fantasy And Returning To The Real; Working With Adoptees Searching For An Internal Sense Of Home
Joy Gravestock
Paper 2:
On the (im)possibility to return and repeat: reflections from art psychotherapy
Uwe Herrmann
PAPER SESSION 9
ART & DRAMA
Chair: TBC
Location: Room 364, Pula University
Paper 1:
ReThread Program: Repetition and Return through Textiles and Nature
Jasmina Ferček
Paper 2:
Penelopean Pause
Marianna Vogt
PAPER SESSION 10
ART
Chair: TBC
Location: Room 365, Pula University
Paper 1:
Applying the ‘one-canvas’ method in experiential art psychotherapy training groups
Debbie Michaels
Paper 2:
Signature Pedagogies for Art Therapy Education
Heather Leigh
POSTERS 14.00-14.30
POSTER 1
ART
Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University
Resilience-building Art Therapy with Forcibly Displaced People
Liliana Montoya De La Cruz
POSTER 2
ART
Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University
Art in Recovery: Exploratory Study into the Role of Visual Art on an Orthogeriatric Ward – Patient and Staff Perspectives
Minna Chang
POSTER 3
MUSIC
Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University
Music Therapy with People in Situations of Involuntary Migration in Brazil
Andressa Dias Arndt
POSTER 4
MUSIC
Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University
The Music Therapy Process as a "Musical Journey" of Adolescents with Depression Disorder
Diana Čerenšek
POSTER 5
MIXED
Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University
The Odyssey of Professional Identity: Scientific, Interdisciplinary and Bioethical Reflections on Art and Arts Therapies Research
Miroslav Prstačić
POSTER 6
MUSIC
Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University
Repetition as Regulation: Auditory Cycles and Neural Return in ADHD
Christine Groß
POSTER 7
EXPRESSIVE ARTS
Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University
Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress
Ruth Gottfried
POSTER 8
MIXED
Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University
Returning to Freedom: Repetition and Rituals in the Polish Strategy of Creative Resocialization
Iwona Klonowska
POSTER 9
MUSIC
Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University
From Sounds to Peace: Music Therapy for Preventing Aggression During War
Tetiana Chemous
POSTER 10
DANCE MOVEMENT
Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University
Danza Movimiento Terapia: The journey toward a book
Maika Campo
WORKSHOPS 14.45-16.45
WORKSHOP 1
ART
Location: Room 260, Pula University
Keeping the Child in Mind: Fathers’ Experiences of Parent–Child Woodworking Art Psychotherapy
Shira Meshulam Heskia
WORKSHOP 2
ART
Location: Room 258, Pula University
Travelling Back to Our Ithaca – Using Art Therapy in Care Homes and Cultural Settings for Older Adults with Dementia
Eleni Petridou Bouriti
WORKSHOP 3
ART
Location: Room 155, Pula University
Bridging Distance and Presence: The Evolution of Art Therapy Training in Digital Spaces
Sybille Cseri
WORKSHOP 4
ART
Location: Room 255, Pula University
Returning to the Self: Repetition and the Journey of Reclaiming the Exiled Parts in ADHD Through the Arts
Deniz Naji
WORKSHOP 5
ART
Location: Room 240, Pula University
Coming Back Home - Embodiment of Safety
Mia Janković Shentser
WORKSHOP 6
MIXED
Location: Room 237, Pula University
My Journey, My Sense of Self, My Belonging: Identity in Crisis - introducing embodied ways of therapeutic self-discovery through performative techniques
Elisabeth Eitelberger
WORKSHOP 7
MIXED
Location: Room 235, Pula University
On Repeat: Exploring Automaton and Tuché through Drama and Dance
Mathieu van der Straeten
WORKSHOP 8
MIXED
Location: Room 234, Pula University
The Ithaca of Bodiliness – From Anxiety to Significance. Arte-Psychoanalysis on a Journey towards the Subject
Klaudia Wec
WORKSHOP 9
MIXED
Location: Room 280, Pula University
Arts-based research methodology to remember and return: Centering marginalized voices through an intersectional lens
Yasmine Awais
WORKSHOP 10
DRAMA
Location: Room 256a, Pula University
Seasons of Repair, Reconnection and Resourcing: The journey home from an African South perspective.
Marlize Swanepoel
WORKSHOP 11
DRAMA
Location: Room 253a, Pula University
On the Roundabout: a Cyclical Journey through Repetition and Return with Older Adults living with Dementia.
Adam Atlasi
WORKSHOP 12
DRAMA
Location: Room 246, Pula University
On my way to my Ithaka
Myriam Saade
WORKSHOP 13
DANCE
Location: Room 246, Pula University
Migrating Bodies – A Choreo-Therapeutic Me-Search on Overcoming Repetition Towards a Pathway to Transformation
Simone Kleinlooh
WORKSHOP 14
MUSIC
Location: Room 232, Pula University
A Pre-Verbal Journey with Winds and Voice
Tamar Hadar
