English Abstracts for Art as Therapy Conference
[1] Secrets of the heart made known
Subtleties of creative processes in physical theatre
Instruction: Osnat Schnek Yosef and Gideon Zehavi
Preview: Physical theatre as conceived and practiced by Jerzy Grotowski, Eugenio Barba and Israeli David Ma’ayan brought about major change in the theatre of the 20th century.
[2] Earth games & toys approach
Instruction: Eitan Shaked
Preview: The Earth Games & Toys approach is a way of working with children and adults, based on the earth as a safe space and material for creating images and games.
[3] Assemblage
The tension in-between Visual- Art therapy workshop
from 2 dimensional to 3 dimensional
Instruction: Dipl. KT Beate Albrich
Preview: As art therapists we need to know very well ourselves, our internal processes, our style, our culture, the concept of our approach and the material we work with.
[4] When the voice opens the soul…
Music and voice workshop
Instruction: Yuval Beari
Preview: All of the cultures along the history made use in music and dance to connect to the spiritual realms, in a grounded manner.
[5] Open the heart
Movement and painting workshop
Instruction: Yael Barkai , Michal Ben Tovim
Preview: Throughout our lifetime, we desire to deepen our relationship with ourselves in our body. We some time conceal or ignore areas in our bodies that we l less like.
[7] Puppetransformation
A playful encounter
Instruction: Galit Davidson & Smadar Ben-Ami
Preview: We invite you to join us, Smadar and Galit, in an attempt to introduce the queen of the object theatre – the puppet – into the prop-free space of DVT.
[8] HOLY JUNK – HOLY BOOKS?
Workshop inspired by the book HOLY JUNK
Instruction: Judith Siano
Preview: In this workshop you are kindly invited to dive into a sensual experience with books who indeed are worthy partners for a dialogue one with the other or one with oneself.
[10] Storytelling
A Key to Opening the Heart
Instruction: Rinah Sheleff
Preview: The contribution of literature to the world of psychotherapy is well-known.
In this workshop we will close the books and turn to tales from oral literature--folk tales and fables from many cultures.
[11] Someone else
Therapeutic theatre workshop
Instruction: Tamar Borer
Preview: The participants are invited to observe themes from their lives and their
coping strategies by designing a character based on a dramatic/literature
piece.
[13] "Merging" and "Emerging"
Material Experience and the Point of Imagery Formation Workshop
Instruction: Ronithah Heymann PhD
Preview: As creators, we formulate in material imageries representing and expressing our inner world. Moreover, our physical contact with the material prior to imagery manifestation carries immense impact upon our inner world and its further expression in imagery.
[14] Dance-Story
Playback theatre in movement
Instruction: Shirley Legum
Preview: Dance story is an ensemble of Playback Theatre for dancers and people who use their movement as an expression.
[15] Taboos, Magic and Politics
Play and drama workshop
Facilitated in Arabic, Hebrew and English
Instruction: Eden Jaljuly & Dov Blum-Yazdi
Preview: The workshop will invite the participants to utilize the process of group creation to discover and express occult and taboo tribal topics, expand primitive patterns, ways of thinking and group behavior.
[16] Art-making based on mindful awareness
A workshop that incorporates mindfulness with the creative process
Instruction: Michaela Mende Janco
Preview: In this workshop we will get acquainted with the definition of mindfulness. We will practice guided meditation at different stages of the workshop.
[17] Opening the voice
Instruction: Gila Sinai
Preview: It seems our voice is familiar to us. We use it in speaking, singing, as a means of expressing feelings. Do we really know our voice?
[18] The Secret Garden
A drama therapy workshop
Instruction: Dr. Dovrat Harel & Nurit Rones-Raushbach
Preview: In this workshop, we will use text, drama, movement and art in order to explore the locks and walls of our lives that are connected to the issues of life and death.
[19] To Cross the Doorstep of Fear of Separation/Breakup
Workshop, using Integrated Art and Psychodrama
Instruction: Inbar Zarfati Nes
Preview:
When fear takes over me,
Whether IT has already happened or not,
When there is no more reason, nor with whom to work on it,
And I stay in any case…
Then I ask myself
On which side should I be?!
[22] A Spiritual Journey to Plant-Selfies
Relating to plant-souls by performance, video and sharing words
Instruction: Juhani Ihanus, PhD
Preview: The workshop is based on the interest in the “psychic life of plants” and the philosophy of vegetaI life, starting from Aristotle, who proposed that plants have souls, and from the German psychophysicist Gustav Theodor Fechner, who maintained in 1848 that plants have emotions and that they react to human attention, talk and affection.
[23] Friday Afternoon Panel:
Performance and exhibition as a key tool in therapy
Instruction: Sari Geva Ovadia
Participants: Drew Bird - Playing with instability- One experiment after another
Lior schur - The Museum is Taking Care of You
Dana Bauman Shapira & Asaf Cohen - Coming out of the wings
[25] Is it true that only one line can connect two points?
Opening the door to lost and neglected developmental lines
Instruction: Yoav Fischer & Dina Cohen-Or
Preview: The line is a basic component of creative expression, but a highly risky one; One can immediately notice if it is 'right' or 'accurate'.
[26] From Chaos to Recovery
Instruction: Talia Bendel-Rozow
Preview: This workshop aims to deepen participants’ personal and collective experiences of chaos and coping with it through movement and other artistic tools.
[27] Passive/Aggressive
Movement workshop
Instruction: Dana Hirsch Laiser and Tali Zavilevich
Preview: We are all present on the line between control and giving- in, between taking responsibility and the desire to choose and lead, while longing to surrender, soften and being held.
[29] Exploring the myth of Philoctetes
A Dramatherapy workshop
Instruction: Stelios Krasanakis (Greece)
Preview: This is a dramatherapy workshop based on the myth of Philoctetes.
[30] Revolving doors
Between the human body, plastic arts and the body of artwork
In playback theatre
Instruction: Maayan Levi & Anna Tseitlin
Preview: Our inner world consists of images that get expressed in a variety of ways. In this workshop we are going to Feel resonances from our inner self through playback theatre and plastic art, and experience processing some basic emotional contents through these two different media, and much more.
[33] What is so special about the special patient?
Instruction: Aliza Ruth Florenthal PhD
Preview: Do you have a recruiting patient? What is its characteristics? In this workshop we shall draw with crayons and discuss the characteristics of the 'special patient' phenomena.
[35] Martial art as therapy
Instruction: Yair Amir-Himmel
Preview: What combines the words "martial" and "art"? What is the connection between these concepts, and if there is, is it possible to go one step further and add the word "therapy" to create a new concept?
Lectures from Europe - Friday Afternoon
Social Circus Bombastico
Praha, recovery in a sphere of metaphors
Instruction: Beate Albrich (Czech Republic)
Preview: During this lecture we will enter the world of circus: Colors, juggling, fire, dance, drums, masks… childhood dreams of freedom, diversity, special skills, individuality and joy.
Expressive and therapeutic writing
A reflective way of personal development
Instruction: Juhani Ihanus (Finland)
Preview: Different levels of writing have been depicted, for example ‘‘literary’’ (product orientation), ‘‘writerly’’ (process orientation) and ‘‘therapeutic’’ (health orientation). These levels of writing have sometimes been set into a cultural value hierarchy, the first of them being often at the top. However, when seen as non-hierarchical and supplementary, they together form the innovative, expressive and explorative interlocutory field of writing.