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BAAT Annual conference 2024: Art therapy and innovation: attending to context and relationship

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This year BAAT’s annual conference will be held in person at the Wellcome Collection on Saturday 9 November 2024. Together we will explore art therapy and innovation, looking at some of the changes in practice that have developed over recent years.

For further information visit: https://baat.org/event/annual-conference-2024-art-therapy-and-innovation-attending-to-context-and-relationship/

Panel Discussion: Critical Reflections on Research of Arts, Health and Wellbeing

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Thursday, 26th January at 6:00 pm CET

  • Keynote speech:
    Reflections on the Research of Creative Arts for Wellbeing and Health, Stephen Clift (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)
    An Overview on Creative Arts for Wellbeing and Health in Last Decades, Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring (University Mozarteum Salzburg / University of Salzburg)
  • Panelists Including: Gerd Antes (Medical Center, University of Freiburg), Arne Bathke (University of Salzburg), Stephen Clift, Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring, Martin Losert (University Mozarteum Salzburg)
  • Moderation: Leonhard Thun-Hohenstein (Paracelsus Medical Private University Salzburg)

The last two decades have seen a considerable growth in arts activities supporting wellbeing and health. The creative arts can be seen as a resource contributing to the cultural vitality and wellbeing and the promotion of health (Clift & Camic 2015).

For further information and registration: https://w-k.sbg.ac.at/veranstaltung/wk-forum-podiumsdiskussion-critical-reflections-on-research-of-arts-health-and-wellbeing/

Using Image and Narrative in Therapy for Trauma, Addiction and Recovery

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A Retrospective Launch Free Event

Saturday 1st October 11am-5pm

11-2am Online and In Person Meeting:
James West (book editor), Jon Martyn, Anthea Hendry, Charles Brown, Sheila Butler, Tony
Gammidge and Tania Korsak present around themes from the book.
(*This part of the meeting will be accessible online. See below)

2-3pm Break

3-5pm Afternoon In Person Meeting:
In the afternoon Sarah Deco and Martin Weegmann provide an interactive group experience for
the in person attendees around Image and Narrative in Therapy.
The day consists of a series of presentations and workshops by the book’s authors, exploring the
use of image and narrative in therapy. It is aimed at anybody who through therapeutic practice or
personal experience is interested in exploring the way image making and storytelling together
become therapeutic and assist recovery and growth from trauma and addictions.

The is the link to the in-person event:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/403968760437

And the on-line event:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/412881749427

*Participants are advised to think about what they bring to the event, and sensitively consider your own self care and how what you bring may impact on other participants.

The book is available at a 20% discount using the code ‘IMAGEANDNARRATIVE’ on this link,
https://uk.jkp.com/products/using-image-and-narrative-in-therapy-for-trauma-addiction-and-recovery
BAAT members get a 30% using the code available on the BAAT website,
https://www.baat.org/Membership

Healing Arts New York Launch Event: The Arts and Wellbeing

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Join leading artists, policymakers, and academics for a virtual panel and project presentation exploring the arts as a new frontier in health, care, and wellbeing. This special event marks the launch of Healing Arts New York, the final of a series of 2021 global city activations, produced by CULTURUNNERS, to advance relationships between Arts and Health research, practice, and policy. Healing Arts New York will culminate in a one-day symposium at The Met on November 14, 2021.

This panel is presented in partnership by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the World Health Organization Arts and Health Program in collaboration with the Creative Arts Therapies Consortium at NYU Steinhardt and the NeuroArts Blueprint, an initiative of the International Arts + Mind Lab at John Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Health, Medicine, and Society Program at The Aspen Institute.

https://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/met-speaks/healing-arts