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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

On Twists and Turns: Prasangs from the Odyssey in storytelling performance.

Stephanie Brittain and Ben Haggerty

Location: Istrian National Theatre

PAPERS  11.30-13.00

PAPER SESSION 1

ART & MIXED  

Chair: Ofira Honig 

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

Chair: Heidrun Panhofer 

Location: Room 323, Pula University,

Paper 1: 

Your Life in me

Maya Gronner-Shamai

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Paper 2: 
Journeys of Repetition and Return: Transforming Parent-Child Relationships through Art

Tami Gavron

PAPER SESSION 3

MUSIC & MIXED

Chair: Catherine Warner 

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

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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: Robert van den Broek 

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: Fabian Chyle-Silvestri 

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: Mimmu Rankanen 

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: Jasmina Pacek 

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: Marian Cao 

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: Alenka Vidrih 

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: Judith Revers 

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

MUSIC

Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University

Music Therapy with People in Situations of Involuntary Migration in Brazil

Andressa Dias Arndt

POSTER 3

MUSIC

Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University

The Music Therapy Process as a "Musical Journey" of Adolescents with Depression Disorder

Diana Čerenšek

POSTER 4

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 5

EXPRESSIVE ARTS

Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University

Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress

Ruth Gottfried

POSTER 6

MIXED

Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University

Returning to Freedom: Repetition and Rituals in the Polish Strategy of Creative Resocialization

Iwona Klonowska

POSTER 7

MUSIC

Location: Rooms 143 & 144, Pula University

From Sounds to Peace: Music Therapy for Preventing Aggression During War

Tetiana Chemous

POSTER 8

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

Elizabeth Stone

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

PERFORMANCE  17.30-18.15 

Pieces of Me" The Role of the Pop Star Performer

Callum Fedele

Location: Istrian National Theatre

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