Presenters at the Nordic Art Therapy Conference 2020 in Sigtuna Sweden.

KEY NOTE LECTURES

Christine Kerr.Christine Kerr, Ph.D., A.T.R.-BC, LCAT has been the Director of Clinical Art Therapy Programs at LIU, Post for the past 25 years and a professor for over 29 years. Dr. Kerr holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and has been a practicing board certified clinical art therapist for over 45 years. Dr. Kerr maintains an active private practice and her main focus is family and couples therapy and Social Action initiatives. Routinely Dr. Kerr has been invited to lecture internationally on family therapy, family

art therapy and Social Action. Her lectures have been featured throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Russia, the Far East and Central and South America. In 2008, Dr. Kerr spearheaded, edited and authored the recognized title Family Art Therapy, published by Taylor-Rutledge (245 pages). This text has been translated into six languages. It is currently being translated into Russian. In 2015 Dr. Kerr, published the first International Multicultural Family Art Therapy.

Jonathan Isserow.Jonathan Isserow has a PhD in psychoanalysis and documentary film studies from UCL, and an MA in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies from the Tavistock Clinic. He is a state registered psychotherapist who has worked extensively within child, adolescent and family psychiatry. He Programe Convenes the art psychotherapy training at University of Roehampton, London. Jonathan in his paper presentation aims to innovatively advance art psychotherapeutic theory and develop a more compassionate

and inclusive epistemological base.

Vera Heller.Vera Heller is currently a professor and the director of the art therapy graduate programs at the University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue. She also teaches in Tokyo and Bangkok with the Canadian International Institute of Art Therapy and maintains an active practice as a psychotherapist and an artist. Dr. Heller used to facilitate a variety of workshops in Canada, Cuba, Mexico and Brazil that eventually became the foundations of her further inquiries. One of them, «My life, an artist’s book» constituted the cornerstone of her work on narrative identity. As an artist, she

has participated in various exhibitions in Canada, United States and Switzerland. After having completed a bachelor in fine arts and another in social work, she pursued in art therapy and eventually obtained her Ph.D. in Expressive Therapies from Lesley University, United States. Her research revolves around cross-cultural issues and the topics of displacement, mourning, individuation and the therapeutic value of the artistic process.

PLENARY PAPERS:

Astri Ziesler.Occupational therapist with more than 30 years of experience working with cancer patients, and art therapist with an MA in art therapy from University of Oregon, USA, 1991. Recently retired from the position as associate professor and coordinator of the Master level art therapy training programme at Oslo Metropolitan University (former Oslo and Akershus University College). Member of Ecarte from 2010.Chair of the Norwegian Art Therapy Association from 1992 – 2014.

Mimmu Rankanen.Professor Mimmu Rankanen is currently leading the Art Therapy Program at the OsloMET University in Norway and works as a scientific head of the professional Group Art Therapy Program at Roiha Institute in Finland. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Handling Mind research group at Aalto University as well as CERADA research group at the University of the Arts Helsinki in Finland. Her doctoral research (2016) focused on how client’s experience the process and impacts of art therapy. Currently,

her research interests include embodied views on art therapy process and mechanisms of change in art therapy She has presented in over twenty international conferences and her publications include multiple journal articles, book chapters, a handbook of art therapy and a doctoral dissertation.Mimmu Rankanen is a state authorized psychotherapist, psychotherapy supervisor and art therapist. Currently, she also works part-time at private practice doing long-term clinical art therapy with adults suffering from various mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, personality disorders and bipolar disorder.

Åse Minde.Åse Minde borne 1950 in Norway. MA Art Therapist Studied

Art Therapy in England and USA 1974 – 1976. BA in Art and psychology 1973. Worked in psychiatric institutions as an Art Therapist in England and USA, California. Has over the years taken further education in psychotherapy, eating disorder, group dynamic and supervision. Returned to Norway 1979. She is Pioneer of Art Therapy in Norway. Has have been working as an Art Psychotherapist at Oslo University Hospital from 1979- still working there. She is the founding Director of the Eating Disorder Unit at Oslo University Hospital H-F. founded in 2000.She has over 40 years of clinical practice as an Art Psychotherapist. Supervised Art Therapist and other health professions for 30 years. In November 2017, I was rewarded by the King of Norway, with his honorary earned medal in gold, for my pioneering work in the field of Art Therapy.Publications: I have written four books on Art Therapy and Eating disorders. I have also written chapters in 3 anthologies on treatment of eating disorder. Presented papers on national and international Conferences. I have been teaching Art therapy for students.

LECTURES:

L#1: Avgustina Stanoeva.Avgustina Stanoeva was born in Bulgaria in 1978 and moved to Germany in 2002 to study Art and Art History (B.A.) at the

University of Osnabrueck. She concluded her Art Therapy studies (M.A.) at the HfWU University Nuertingen-Geislingen. Avgustina went on to study Psychology (B.Sc) at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Additionally, she obtained further education in Analytical Psychology at the C.G. Jung - Institute Zurich and in Art Therapy at the Institute for Art and Therapy (IKT) in Munich. Her research issues are borderline personality disorder, spaces in art therapy, and cultural identity. Currently she is an art therapist in the Forensic Psychiatry for Women in Taufkirchen (Vils), Germany.

L#2: Zsuzsanna Várnai.I work as an art therapist and as an expert in children’s and youth literature in a primary school. There I am also the director of a programme called “Education Through Art” which gives the opportunity for all students at the school to have interactive lessons with artists, film directors, poets, writers, musicians, actors and actresses, singers and composers. During these classes the children can find their own ways of expressing themselves with the help of the guest teachers (contemporary artists) in the fields of art with different tools. I

also teach visual education and children’s literature at Schola Europa Academy at the faculties of Nursery and Kindergarten Teaching and Pedagogical Assistant. I give lectures in art therapy at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. Besides, I have a private practice where I mostly treat children with learning disabilities, speech disorders, autism, ADHD and anxiety disorder.

L#3: Irina Katz-Mazilu.Irina Katz-Mazilu graduated in an ArtsTherapies MA at the University of Paris and practiced for more than 20 years as an arts therapist with organizations, communities and private, in different mental and physical domains: psychiatry, disabled, migrants, prisoners, social, PSTD…with clients of all ages and gender. She is also a trainer and supervisor in art therapy and active in several associations. She presented conferences and workshops in national and international meetings and published in French, English and Russian. She is currently member of the transitional Board of the EFAT – European Federation of Art Therapy – www.arttherapyfederation.eu. She has been President of the FFAT – French Federation for Arts Therapies from 2008 to 2018 – www.ffat-federation.org and member of the Board of the SFPE-AT – Société Française de Psychopathologie de l’Expression et d’Art-Thérapie from 2016 to 2019 – www.sfpeat.fr. She is also active as a visual artist – www.irina.katzmazilu.com.

L#4: Zsuzsanna Geréb Valachiné.Zsuzsanna Geréb Valachiné. I’m a clinical psychologist, art therapist and symbol-therapist. I worked at children’s hospital

psychotherapy centre, at psychiatry, also as counsellor in high school education and for foundations, held trainings and lectures. Lately I worked in a children and family counselling centre and in private practice. Nowadays besides therapeutic work started PhD at ELTE University psychology doctoral program about the use of art therapy in the improvement of emotional flexibility. In the last ten years I was board member of MMT (Hungarian Art Therapy Association) and founding member of FEAT (Federation of European Art Therapists).

L#5: Nicole Wolpher.Nicole Wolpher is a social worker and art therapist graduated from both Nordic Institute of Art Therapy Edudcation (NIArTE) and Umeå University. She’s been working with neurodevelopmental disorders (such as ADHD and AST) for a decade, currently with creating materials focusing on psychoeducation about emotions. She is has also been for the past 3 years, a board member for Sweden’s national association for self-harm and eating disorders. With a long background working for user organizations in the mental

health sector, she feels strongly about breaking myths and stigmas that hinder effective care or treatment.

L#6: Iris Ingvarsdottir.MPS (Art Therapy, Pratt Institute New York). Art Therapist since 1997. Current occupation: Art Therapist at the pediatric psychology ward at the National University Hospital of Iceland; Art Therapist at the private clinic the Centre of Art Therapy, focusing on children and adolescents. Previous relevant occupation: Art Therapist at Reykjavik City elementary schools (14 years); Art Therapist at the National University Hospital of Iceland’s hospice ward.She is a founding member of the Icelandic Art Therapy Association (est. 1998), having served as chairwoman and board

member on numerous occasions. Currently fronting the association’s title protection effort.

L#7: Marit Aalen.Psychologist with authorization from UiO. Master in history of ideas from UiO. PhD with a dissertation about Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, UiO. Associate Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University from 1999 until now (the first years as lecturer).

Oslo private school of fine arts. Nydalen art school. Held two workshops in art therapy together with another art therapist.

L#8: Flavia Cardas.Flavia Cardaș is a psychotherapist and PhD in psychology. She worked mostly with children and families using creative-expressive therapy tools including dance, movement, art, Bothmer Gymnastics and mindfulness. Recently, she made a change in her career relocating from Bucharest to Copenhagen, Denmark where she works at a foundation with homeless immigrants and with volunteers, using art-therapy methods and in her private practice with expatriates.

L#9: Joy Gravestock.Joy has an MA in psychoanalytic music therapy and is currently a Phd student at Sheffield University researching music therapy and attachment. She specialises in psychoanalytic, attachment based, relational music therapy for adoptees (with trauma experience), and their families. Her research and a forthcoming book (with Jessica Kingsley Publishing September 2020) explore relational repair from trauma effects occuring via micro-moments of attunement within an embodied musical therapeutic relationship. She is passionate about advocating for appropriate and compassionate adoption services and

ensuring music therapists are able to dictate adequate resources for client need.

WORKSHOP/LECTURES:

W/L#1: Nadja Gruberg.For the past 30 years I have worked as an Expressive Arts Therapist in my private practice at Hälsans Hus, a place dedicated to holistic therapy. With a background in pedagogy and drama, I started conscious raising groups using sound and body awareness in the women ́s movement and RFSU. Since many women in my workshops had a history of sexual assaults, I decided to get a proper therapy training. Trained in Expressive Arts Therapy in Sweden, Switzerland and at Lesley

College Graduate School, Cambridge, Mass., USA. Earned my Master of Arts in Expressive Therapies at Lesley College, was certified Expressive Arts Therapist by the Scandinavian Institute of Expressive Arts in Sweden. Certified Art Therapist trained in Art Psychotherapy by the Swedish Association for Art Therapy in Sweden. Advanced training in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), and in verbal therapy. My focus is on existential issues, second generation questions, women ́s aging processes, dream work and mythology.

W/L#2: KUB; Kerstin Johansson, Ulla Blohm, Birgitta Hallqvist.

Kerstin Johansson, artist. Royal College of Art (KKH) 1972-1977. Authorized art therapist (SRBt) 2015. Yoga teacher (Growth Health and Care, Bikash Acharya, Stockholm) 1910-2011. University Courses in pedagogy, 30 hp (Högskolan i Kalmar) 2007.Currently working at: own paintings. Beside my profession as an artist I also work with communicative and interactive creative work, as in art therapy for personal growth and teaching yoga. I also give art courses of my own design. I have previously worked with patients suffering from chronic brain injuries as well as with groups of psychotics. I have a long experience of leading pedagogical work in several artistic projects involving children and teenagers.www.bildrike.se

Ulla Blohm, reg. psychologist, reg. psychotherapist, dipl. art therapist (SRBt), authorized supervisor (Ericastiftelsen).From

the beginning I am a therapist for children and teenagers and have worked in childpsychiatric clinics and guidance clinics (BUP). Then I have also worked with adults and families in therapy and art therapy. I participated in the group which planned and designed the first art therapy education program 1995-98 in direction of the Swedish association of art therapy (Present SRBt). There I was also teacher and supervisor. I was also teacher and supervisor in the art therapy education that was given at Umeå university and supervisor at several psychiatric and child guidance clinics in Sweden. Now I work in private practice in art therapy and in supervision for art therapists.

Birgitta Hallqvist, artist, art therapist. PG Dip AT CNAA - Hertfordshire college of art and design, England 1982. Authorized art therapist (SRBt). BA in art history. I was qualified as an art therapist in the early eighties and have a long experience of working with art therapy both clinically at a psychiatric hospital, in a day center for disabled young persons and with education. I participated in the group which planned and designed the first art therapy education program 1995-98 in direction of the Swedish association of art therapy (Present SRBt). I have also worked several years with teaching and supervision both at the Art therapy education program and with supervision at Visby psychiatric clinic, Gotland 1994-2009. For me art is a strong and fundamental force within art therapy. It requires a balance between my own artistic work and the therapeutic work with clients. Since 2003 I have been running an art gallery where I have been especially engaged in the process of artistic creation and arranged several exhibitions, seminars and art projects. In parallel I have been

working with art and prevention therapy, mainly with young girls in their adolescence. Since 2016 I am engaged in the work with refugee families and newly arrived children.

W/L#3: Astri Ziesler, Kristin Benedicte Svendsen.Astri Ziesler. Occupational therapist and art therapist with an MA in art

therapy from University of Oregon, USA, 1991. Present work: Associate professor and coordinator of the art therapy training program at Oslo Metropolitan University (former Oslo and Akershus University College). Member of Ecarte from 2010.Chair of the Norwegian Art Therapy Association from 1992 – 2014.

Kristn Benedicte Svendsen, Cand Ed./Master in Educational Psychology from University of Oslo. Gestalt Psychotherapist from The Norwegian Gestalt Institute/College. Present work: Assistant Professor at the Art Therapy Training Programme at Oslo Metropolitan University (former Oslo and Akershus University College) Board member of the Norwegian Art Therapy Association.

W/L#4: Hanne Stubbe Teglbjaerg.Hanne Stubbe Teglbjærg is psychiatrist and expressive art therapist. She has 4 different psychotherapeutic educations and made a CACS in Expressive Arts Therapy from EGS. She made her research in understanding how the making of art reduce psychopathology in psychiatric patients. She has worked in public psychiatry for more than 25 years and the last 7 years as consultant psychiatrist with responsibility of psychotherapeutic treatment and training. Now she works in own private practice. Author of the book “Skabende kunstterapi” and several chapters and articles of art therapy

and psychotherapy.W/L#5: Anna Malavolta.

Approaching Social Theater in 2004. Experimenting several theatrical techniques since then, attending workshops in Italy and abroad. Graduated in 2011 as Social Educator at the University of Turin. Having the opportunity to give workshops for people with disabilities, inmates, people with mental illness and children. Always attracted by the dynamics of groups, I’m graduating at the Italian Drama Therapy School directed by Salvo Pitruzzella. Deeply fascinated by the idea of walk people to a path of personal and creative evolution originated

from the dramatic experience. Currently working with women victims of human trafficking in Torino.

W/L#6: Johanna Södermark.Johanna Södermark is a Dalcroze/movement teacher, massage therapist/bodyworker and art therapist. She is a multi-expressive woman with a deep passion for exploration of the human experience. She uses dance, movement, painting, music, playing and interaction to find deeper understanding of the connection of body-mind-spirit in the human experience. She is working as a bodyworker, art therapist and musician. She also has 18 years of experience of bipolar disorder, and is lecturing around her own healing-journey and perspectives concerning that

W/L#7: Irit Belity, Yael Domany.Irit Belity.

Irit Belity is an art therapist from 2000. A lecturer and a supervisor at The Graduate School of Creative Art Therapies, Haifa University, Israel. She has worked in therapeutic centers and schools for many years, with populations of different ages (4-21), and with various difficulties. She works in private practice: treatments, parent-child treatments, and supervision. She Instructs therapists and professional staff in special education schools with a population of intellectual and developmental disabilities.

She specializes : parent- child psychotherapy, multicultural therapy, therapy in educational system, Parental guidance, and therapy with an intellectual and developmental disabilities adult. Yael Domany.

Yael Domany is an art therapist from 2000. A lecturer and a supervisor at The Graduate School of Creative Art Therapies, Haifa University, Israel. She has an extensive clinical experience in the public and private practice with children, adults, supervision and a parent-child art therapy. Through the years she works with progressive illness and complicated paralysis conditions. She specialized in workshops for art therapists and psychologists, which explore the therapeutic qualities of three-dimensional art materials. Also, through the teaching

program, she is involved with multicultural therapy thanks to the diverse religions’ backgrounds of the people and the students in the Israeli society.

W/L#8: Mia Östlin, Ragnhild Konstenius.Mia Östlin.

Mia Östlin is a licensed occupational therapist/art therapist, licensed psychotherapist, certified Schema- and

EMDR-therapist, educated in Psychodrama and Bioenergetics, Psychotherapy-supervisor. 25 years of experience from psychiatric public health care and 12 years from private practice. Online-training in Healing trauma with guided drawing. Bild & psykoterapi Södermalm HB, Lundagatan 36, Stockholm. mia.ostlin@gmail.com, www.ktmo.se

Ragnhild Konstenius. Ragnhild Konstenius is a counselor, art therapist, licensed psychotherapist. Long experience of work in child psychiatric health care. Current work with children, youth and their families with refugee background in a trauma clinic in child psychiatric care in Stockholm. Online-training in Healing trauma with guided drawing.

WORKSHOPS:

W#1: Anila Babla.Anila Babla is an artist and recently qualified art psychotherapist from Goldsmiths College, London. Anila works as a part-time art therapist in schools and at a charity supporting people affected by brain injury, and has spent time in Florence working with adults with emotional disorders. Her interest in art therapy was first piqued in the refugee camps at Calais. Anila is interested in the physicality of collage and its potential to integrate disparate unconscious

fragments.

W#2: Jenny Butler.JB works as an Art Therapist and psychotherapist in her private practice ”Ateljé Mellanrummet” in Lund, Sweden with children, teenagers, adolescents and grown ups, both individually and in groups. In her work play, creativity and relational perspectives are central. JB has developed and conducted workshops and educational programs in different settings with focus on creative and healing processes. She is supervising in Art Therapy and gives Art-based supervision in organizational settings. Together with her husband, Carl Gustafsson, painter and art teacher, she runs Visual Art workshops and programs on regular basis in Sweden and abroad. JB is a board member of the SRBt and member of the editorial board of the Nordic Journal ”Mellanrummet” on child and adolescent

psychotherapy. JB is also an exhibiting painter.

W#3: Jane Hawes.Jane was born in Washington D.C. in 1955 and moved to Sweden in 1983 where she worked as an artist and film maker. She produced both animated and live-action films. Jane later became an art therapist and followed this with a masters in disability studies and a psychotherapy degree in relational and Interpersonal therapy. As a Relational Art psychotherapist Jane works together with her clients using the healing power of creativity and human interaction in both individual and group therapy. Jane is a

licensed Psychotherapist, has a B-level certificate in Interpersonal Therapy as well as an EMDR certification. Jane receives all types of clients: young and old, those who want to create or those who just want to talk and individuals who are disabled or those who are not. All are welcome at the informal, intimate clinic that she shares with four other Art psychotherapists in Södermalm.

W#4: Knut Omholt.Growing up in the countryside as an only child, I entertained myself by drawing, spinning stories, and playing in the sandpile. In high school, however, I had the impression that to get on in the world, you had to show off as a professional man. I sent my artistic creativity into exile and immersed myself in theoretical studies, eventually attaining a Ph.D. in political science. Getting stuck as a researcher in the field, I took up studies in storytelling, drama, and visual arts, re-including the excluded aspects. Turning to teaching, I introduced arts-based methods in pedagogy. By and by I underwent basic training in psychodrama before receiving a

Diploma in Art therapy. I am an associate professor in teacher education and have a private practice as an art therapist. Myths and fairy tales have been lasting companions along the way, offering inspiration and guidance.

W#5: Arnell Etherington Reader.

Arnell Etherington Reader, Ph.D., MFT, ATR-B.C. is Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Art Therapy Psychology Department, Notre Dame de Namur University in California lecturing for 28 years. She continues teaching NDNU’s International Art Therapy class in the UK, Art Therapy Ph.D. and Masters classes. Having moved to the UK ten years ago, she now lectures at Art Therapy Northern Programme; has a small private practice working with children,

adolescents, and families; and offers the Living Art creative arts weeklong workshops. Arnell has given art therapy theory and technique workshops at AATA, Goldsmith Art Therapy Conf, & ECARTE; lectured at the Art therapy programs in Singapore and Australia; given weeklong Living Art creative arts workshops in

Malaysia, Hawaii, Sedona, Arizona and the UK. She is a licensed art psychotherapist and clinical psychologist in both the US and UK.

W#6: Birgitta Englund.Art therapist, MSc OT, Senior lecturer and coordinator of Master Program in Art therapy, Umeå university, since 24 years. Private practitioner in Art therapy + Cognitive psychotherapy, 18 yrs. Certified teacher in Satyananda Yoga and Meditation, 15 yrs.

W#7: Julie Plaut Warwick.Julie Plaut Warwick is a Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher

and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate. Julie has an undergraduate degree in Music Education from Indiana University School of Music, and a master’s degree in Counselling from Antioch University in Seattle. In October of 2014, she travelled to Bangalore, India to be certified by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of Laughter Yoga International.Julie has a passion for infusing the World with Joy and will personalize programs to fit the needs of your community. She has had the pleasure to work with many types of groups, including social justice groups, The Neurological Disordered Community, Seniors, Hospice, Educators, youth and more.Julie lives in Bellevue, Washington and loves to connect with people around the world and go out to sing Karaoke! She is the owner and founder of Connecting the Peaces, LLC, located in Bellevue, Washington. www.connectingthepeaces.com

PERFORMANCE

“Fancy Expression”

Silvia Wieser.I am a professional artist for over 30 years, an art and voice therapist with long experience of patient work and creative processes. I receive clients at bildterapistudion.se.

Elisabeth Engström Franzén.

Elisabeth Engström Franzén certified psychologist and certified psychotherapist, registered Art therapist and she has also a master in Expressive Therapies from USA. She has her own private practice and she has been working for 30 years with art therapy, music therapy and traditional verbal therapy. She has too been a teacher for headmasters in leadership teaching them the arts expressions and a teacher in Music therapy at the University of Lund, Sweden. She is leading an education in Creative Arts Therapy for health and well-being

POSTERS

Irina Katz- Mazilu (see the biography for L#3).

Gärd Holmqvist.Gärd is an occupational therapist and art therapist. She has experience of working with art therapy in adult psychiatric care since 1977. She has a MSc in Art Therapy and is authorized Art Therapist according to Swedish National Association of Art Therapists (SRBt). Since 2018 she has a PhD in Health and Lifestyle. Her dissertation is about Art Therapy, inner change and improved health (Art therapy - a path to inner change and improved health // Bildterapi - en väg till inre förändring och förbättrad hälsa). She has

published four articles on this subject. She is the chair of SRBt since 2018.

Avgustina Stanoeva (see the biography for L#1).

Nicole Wolpher (see the biography for L#5).

Anna Dúa Kristjánsdóttir.

Anna Dúa studied Psychology in the University of Iceland (B.Sc.) and studies now Dance Movement Therapy in the SRH University Heidelberg, Germany (M.A.). She will defend her master’s thesis about Dance Movement Therapy’s effect on Social Anxiety with adult Icelandic psychiatric outpatients in September this year. She has a broad experience of caretaking with children, the elderly, the mentally ill, and the disabled and is driven by helping people access their full potential and happiness in life.

MORNING MOVEMENT AND DANCE

Eva Tillberg.Eva is a licensed psychotherapist, dance movement therapist and a psychotherapy supervisor and teacher. She is currently working in private practice in Stockholm with psychotherapy, supervision and teaching. She also, among other things, teaches at Karlstad University (www.kau.se) on the course "Foundations of Dance Movement Therapy".