4 ArTS - International Encounter for Arts Therapies Students

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Lectures by professionals and young professionals

1.   Lieven Desomviele // Belgium // Drama Therapy
The introduction of the conference will consist of two parts. First Lieven will offer a short overview about the foundations of the arts therapies in Belgium. Secondary he will tell more about the creative thinking skill within the arts therapies.
Lieven is an occupational therapist (OT) , Drama Therapist and holds a Master in Medical Science OT. He teaches Art Therapy  and OT at the University College of Ghent. He is co- founder of the Belgium Arts Therapy Federation (BVCT- ABAT vzw) and is a self- employed dramatherapist.

2.   Isabel Luñansky // Spain // Music Therapy
Isabel is the director of the music therapy training and president of the Music Therapy Association of Madrid. Subject of the lecture will be: Alzheimer Research Program and a practice of the Music Therapy Training in Madrid (corporal approach, movement and voice).
Between the current non- pharmacological therapies, maybe music therapy has the better results. Non- verbal approach offers the ability to communicate through gesture, movement, voice, musical improvisation for people suffering from neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer and others in which there is a progressive improvement. Our music Therapy Training Programme offers to the Social- Health professional teams the possibility of a creative approach to patients through specific strategies designed to improve the general level of life.

3.   Persephoni Krasidou // Cyprus // Dance Therapy
Persephoni is a newly qualified Art Therapist at the BA Education, BA Fine Art, MA Art Therapy “I currently live and work in Limassol, Cyprus. My previous professional experience and research lies in the field of education. Since January 2011 I am part of a group of professionals working as an Art Therapist with Adult Mental Health Services in Cyprus; provided by the Ministry of Health.
I enjoyed taking part as a student and running a workshop in 4arts 2009 in Athens.
My recent work as an Art Therapist is expected to be presented in the 11th Ecarte 2011 in Lucca Italy (Arts Therapies and the Intelligence of Feeling) and the 2nd World Congress of Arts Therapies in Budapest, Hungary”
The title of her lecture/workshop is “The story of ‘the Workshop’- an Art Therapy Research Project by Elementary School Children”. Once upon a time there was a small school in a small island in the Mediterranean... Most children were happy and enjoyed their school life. Some of the children however did not have such a good time. They experienced feelings of anger and sadness, felt they had no friends and were really bored during break time... A nymph that lived in one of the trees near by the art-room, saw their worried faces and decided to help them find a solution. She whispered in a way that only children could hear her voice and provided them with two magic portions: "Art Therapy" and "Action Research".

4.   Jan Vandromme // Belgium // Art Therapy
Jan holds a Master in Fine Arts (painting) Sint-Lukas Brussel and a Bachelor Art Therapy PHL Hasselt. He is also the coordinator and lector for the BA Art Therapy PHL Hasselt. He works as an art therapist with sexual offenders at PC Asster Sint-Truiden. next to this he is a partner Artisit vzw, Genk, (studio for psychic fragile artists – psychosis) www.artisit.be. He is the administrator of the BVCT-ABAT vzw (Belgian Association Arts Therapies)and as an artist he is member of ZoneIII Brussels www.janvandromme.eu.
Subject of the lecture: ‘rediscovering the importance of rituals in everyday life’. (Based on James Roose-Evans Passages of the Soul) Situated in dramatherapy but translated byJan to art therapy.
Birth, puberty, marriage, death… down the centuries civilizations have used the power and vitality of rituals to celebrate primal events in life. Yet today, in our material world, we have forgotten the value of rituals to mark signficant rites of passage such as these. We have forgotten the value of tales, myths and rituals to cope with contemporary taboos. Ritual is one of the keys which can open a door into the realm of the imagination. To have imagination is to enjoy a richness of interior life. Withoutwe are cut off from the deeper reality of life.

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5a.  Joke Oosters // Belgium //  Drama Therapy
Joke Oosters is a Belgian dramatherapist at this moment she is completing her studies in integrative child and adolescent psychotherapy at the FMS in Ghent. Joke specializes in developmental drama therapy together with Dries Booten she won the FMR graduation award for their research in: "Integration dramatherapy into type 3 education in Flanders. " Joke is experienced in working with (orphaned) children and adolescents who suffer from social and emotional (behavioral) problems. Nowadays Joke is working as an indipendant therapist in a grouppractise for children and youngsters.now operates as an independent in a Joke in D_Link Deurne (Antwerp). www.ruimtedelink.be
Developmental drama therapy: One might say that all children follow in their development more or less the same pattern. The development of a child is like a jigsaw puzzle where one piece creates the possibility for the next to fit. Various child- and environmental factors can stagnate a child in its development.
Within developmental drama therapy the therapy will be associated with the developmental stage where the child has stagnated. From there, the drama therapist tries, through play, to allow the child to "re-develop". This method is based on the theory of development of Denève-Verhofstadt, mentalization described by Fonagy and Bateman and game development described by Phil Jones.

5b.  Sofia Vanneste // Belgium //  Dance Therapy
Sofia is a newly qualified dance therapist who is now studying psychology.
Sofia's lecture will talk about dance- and movement therapy with the Quechua Indians in Peru. What can dance therapy mean to support the psychological needs of people with the Quechua culture in Peru.

Workshops by students and young professionals

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1a.  Sevin Seda Guney // United Kingdom // Dance Therapy
Sevin Seda studied at Roehampton University, London. He is Newly graduated in September 2011.I'
m here as I am: Exploring stories of trainee therapists.
The workshop will focus on exploring the process of personal and professional development as a trainee therapist acknowledging autobiographical stories and holding multi-roles as a supervisee, client in personal therapy and therapist on placement. Creative movement improvisation will focus on embodying and exploring the individual journeys of Arts Therapists and finding own feet through individual paths in relation to others. I would like to invite participants to bring one personal belonging (key, ring, photograph, etc...) to work with.

1b.  Sabrina Loll // Germany // Art Therapy
The secret garden - an art therapeutic and imaginative practice
In the work with traumatized clients it is first of all important, to help them to become self-supporting and feeling safe. A lot of imaginative practices, created by the famous Dr. Luise Reddemann, helping to dissociate oneself from the painful memory and get back in touch with the own resources. In this workshop we work with practices for attentiveness, imaginative exercises to create our inner safe place, assisted with art therapeutic methods (work with clay).

1c.  Dries Booten // Belgium // Drama Therapy
In this workshop Dries will give a practical introduction to Psychodrama. Dries studied Experiential and developmental child & youth psychotherapy and graduated cum laude as Dramatherapist (Hogeschool Utrecht, Netherlands). He is currently employed as a dramatherapist in the Psychiatric Center Bethanië. He previously worked as a dramatherapist in a school for children with emotional and behavioural problems. On demand of the Confederacy of Special Education Flanders (VVKBuO) he researched the possibility to integrate dramatherapy in special education schools. For this research he and his colleague (Joke Oosters, who will also be giving a lecture) received the award of the faculty 'low and society' (Hogeschool Utrecht, 2009). He is also part of the board of 4ArTS. Next to this he is a psychodrama trainee.

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2a.  Anete Ziaugre // Latvia // Dance Therapy
Non-verbal communication in movement. Misunderstanding, empathy, leading and following.

2b.  Georgios George Anthitsis // UK // Art Therapy

2c.  Liga Veide-Nedviga, Evita Dakse // Latvia // Music Therapy
Theoretical presentation about art therapy in Latvia. We will be going into a creative process together so everybody can give his perspective of the art therapies in their country.

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3a.  Edmundo Santos, Raquel Calvo // Portugal/ Spain //  Dance and Movement Therapy
The body breathes: authentic movement in arts therapy and in artistic creation.

3b.  Hsin-Hsuan Hsieh // Spain // Art Therapy
University of Complutense, Master for 2 years.
The subject of the workshop: The sensation and the emotion. How do the sensations leads us to feel, then to arouse those emotions.

3c.  Lien Stessel // Belgium // Drama Therapy
Lien is studying Drama Therapy at the University College in Ghent. In addition she works with children and youngsters with emotional and behavioural problems. Together with Joke Bosschaerts she is this year's organiser of the 4ArTS conference.
The workshop will be about: Developmental Transformations (DVT) which involves the continuous transformation of embodied encounters in a playspace. DvT is at once a method of embodied psychotherapy, meditation, performance, and an approach to social change.
www.developmentaltransformations.com

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4a.  Hendrikje Meyvis // Belgium // Drama Therapy
Theatre of the oppressed: actors and non actors. We are all human, we are all artist, we are all actors! (A. Boal)

4b.  Janina Lübcke // Germany // Art Therapy
The titel of the workshop is: "Shoes tell stories"- an artistic research about shoes
content: Aesthetic artistic research about shoes (inspired of the concept by Helga Kämpf-Jansen) Shoes tell stories. We will create in an artistic way a fictitious personality about that shoe.

4c.  Finlay McDermid // UK // Music Therapy
Collaborative composition and community multi-modal Arts Therapy.
I recently qualified as a Music Therapist from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. I work with a community arts project called Trash Arts in the Scottish Borders.
I would like to (briefly) present my dissertation (collaborative composition in a community arts setting) and for the workshop participants to work in small groups to explore the idea of 'How did we get here?', using characters, narrative and  music/movement/drama/visual art materials.