AATA 2007 conference

The Art of connecting from local to global. AATA’s 38th annual conference November 14-18, 2007 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA AATA 2007 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS CONFERENCE TRACKS The conference is organized into seven subject tracks designed to help participants quickly find areas of interest and make the most of the conference. Please mix and match and attend the presentations that best fit your needs. CA Clinical Approaches Expand your knowledge of art therapy with children, adolescents, adults, families, and the elderly in psychiatric, medical, and a variety of other group and individual settings. Learn about therapeutic best practices, case studies, and art therapy techniques and methods. CT Current Trends Discover the contemporary issues that professionals in the forefront of the field are investigating. Topics include technology, credentialing, ethics, activism, and more. TA Theory and Assessment Examine the most recent theoretical thinking in the field. Study art therapy assessments, current research and theoretical models taught by experienced researchers and pioneers of art therapy. SC Studio and Community Focus on programs with an art studio-based approach. Artist-centered art therapy practice and community outreach programs designed to improve our collective well being are featured. ES Education and Supervision Explore updates in art therapy training and education. Focus on the latest teaching methods, supervision techniques, and educational developments. MC Multiculturalism Celebrate the many ways art therapy heals diverse peoples. Increase multicultural competency by learning about cross-cultural relationships, programs and practices. RE Research & Evaluation Focus on the theory and practice of clinical evaluation, the use of standardized assessments, systematic case studies, outcome studies, and all forms of inquiry, using or exploring various research methodologies. The conference has two themes in addition to seven tracks. Theme-specific sessions are color-coded throughout the program:  Creativity and Loss and Art and Technology  Workshops and master classes

What is different about working with difference?

ARC Conference

ARC CONFERENCE ‘What is different about working with difference?’ 27 April 2007 10am – 4pm

Venue: Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London (opposite Euston Station)

The Art Therapy Race and Culture sub group of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) is holding a conference that aims to:

* Promote and foster inclusion within the art therapy profession.

* Explore different theoretical approaches for working with difference. Keynote speakers from diverse theoretical and cultural backgrounds will address how their particular theoretical approach makes a difference in working with difference.

Keynote speakers include: Camila Batmanghelidjh and Professor Di Waller Workshop leaders include: Marian Liebmann, Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq and Deirdre McConnell Through this conference we plan to

* Develop a theoretical and practical toolbox of approaches which art therapists will be able to use in their work settings.

* Influence the ways in which art therapy and equalities are addressed and taught in art therapy training institutions.

* Have a positive impact on practice and the development of the profession.

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Arts & Health Symposium BC, Canada

Conference

June 8 – 10, 2006
Pre-conference Workshops: Thursday, June 8, 2006

Artists Alive! Gala Performance Saturday Evening, June 10 @ 8pm

Downtown Historic Nelson, BC

Venues include Capital Theatre, Hume Hotel, Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College, and Kutenai Art Therapy Institute

Bringing together representatives from arts and health fields to share information about existing research and collaborative models.

It is becoming widely accepted that arts and culture can make significant contributions to the health of the individual and the community.

Research has shown that the inclusion of the arts reduces the cost to health care.

The symposium will include keynote speakers, panels, presentations and experiential workshops focused on the development of arts initiatives in the health field geared towards small towns and rural communities.

Topics will cover current research, models and practical applications, which can be used with individuals from childhood through senior years.

Hosted by

in partnership with
Nelson First Health Co-op &

and with support from

Keynote Speakers include:

• Dr. Gabor Mate, M.D.

  Bestselling author of “When the Body Says No”, and
  “Scattered Minds”, speaks on the Relationship between the Mind and the Body with regards to illness and emotional health and the importance of creative self-expression.

• Dr. Arthur Frank

  Author of “Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine and How to
  Live”, and professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary speaks on Lifting Desperate Hearts: Five Dramas of Illness.

• Dr. Janis Timm-Bottos, PhD, PT, LPAT, ATR-BC

  Pediatric physical therapist, licensed art therapist, and founder and executive director of OFFCenter Community arts Project, a non-profit arts organization in Albuquerque, New Mexico speaks on Constructing Creative Communities: Art, History and Science of Community Art Therapy.

More information here: http://www.nelsonlearning.ca/conference.html

Making our Mark, Conference March 11th, 2006

The Caldwell College/New Jersey Art Therapy Association Fifth Annual Art Therapy Conference

Making Our Mark:
The 5th Annual
Art Therapy Conference
At Caldwell College NJ, USA

Cosponsored by the Art Therapy Programs at Caldwell College and the
New Jersey Art Therapy Association

9am – 5pm
Saturday, March 11, 2006

CEC approval pending from AATA (5.5 credits).
AATA is approved by NBCC to provide CEC credits to counselors.

Conference Registration

Conference Arts in Society

Call for papers: Arts as therapy
Edinburgh, Scotland August 2006International Conference on the Arts in Society

Overall Theme 2006: ARTS OF ENGAGEMENT
‘Arts of Engagement’ emerged as this year’s conference theme as a broad way to think about how to link interdisciplinary forms of creative expression with social action and meanings. On the world stage, global systems of exchange and production are calling old structures into question, and forcing a re-evaluation of art world creations�hybridized, appropriated, traveled. As the visionaries of alternative ways of seeing and self-expression, artists and their works speak loudest to the pressing needs for social change, peace and justice, often paying a high personal and professional price for doing so. Addressing the broad themes below, we invite proposals from any one or combination of conference themes that bring the arts into contact with particular social and cultural flows.

See: http://arts-conference.com/