International Association for Creative Arts in Education and Therapy

13/06/2026

Join us for an international online webinar bringing together leading professional organizations to discuss training, standards, and the future of the Arts in Education, Therapy, Community and Health.

This Global Dialogue session brings together leading professional organizational members of IACAET from the USA, Australia, Turkey, and South Africa to present their training models, institutional missions, and contributions to the evolving landscape of Arts & Health.

Together, the speakers will share diverse international perspectives on training, professional standards, and the integration of the arts across therapy, education, community, and health contexts.

Further information and registration: https://www.iacaet.org/event/professional-organizations-in-focus-ii-training-standards-and-the-future-of-the-arts-in-education-therapy-community-and-health/

29/05/2026

It was a splendid opening and keynote session today for the 2026 International Symposium of Creative Arts Therapies taking place in Orpea Healthcare Group (China). The place is ready for the in-person session tomorrow https://www.inspirees.com/event/international-symposium-of-creative-arts-therapies-2026/

23/05/2026

The International Association for Creative Arts in Education and Therapy (IACAET) is pleased to announce the appointment of Joan Wittig, BC-DMT, LCAT, as the new President of IACAET.

https://www.iacaet.org/iacaet-welcomes-joan-wittig-as-new-president/

12/05/2026

We're pleased to announce the May webinar!

Centering perspectives from Southern Africa, the conversation foregrounds epistemologies and practices historically marginalized within dominant Western paradigms. At the heart of this webinar is decolonization, not as metaphor, but as an ethical, political, and epistemological reorientation of the field.
Southern African philosophical traditions, including the ethic of Ubuntu invite us to understand personhood as emergent through relationship: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu (a person is a person through other persons). Within arts therapy training and community arts praxis in the region, these principles are enacted through circle processes, call-and-response structures, embodied witnessing, ritual, and aesthetic co-creation. Healing is understood not solely as individual clinical intervention, but as restoration of relational balance among body, spirit, community, land, and ancestral presence.

Further information and registration: https://www.iacaet.org/event/voices-from-southern-africa-african-perspectives-on-decolonizing-the-creative-arts-in-community-education-therapy-and-health/

21/04/2026

Happening this Sunday! Don't forget to register!

https://inspirees.glueup.com/event/iacaet-arts-health-global-dialogue-series-177047/?verificationCode=[eventInviteeVerificationCode]&pk_campaign=20260426+2nd&pk_cid=487835&pk_kwd=487835&pk_medium=event-campaign

16/04/2026

🎓 20 SUPERVISION HOURS
Counts toward: R-DMT · REAT · RPT · RDT
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Your clinical work has a body, a story, and a soul. 🌀
Let's explore it — creatively.
Join Dr. Steve Harvey for online group supervision in Creative Arts Therapy.
🎭 Physical Storytelling
🧠 Ethical case formulation
🌍 Multidisciplinary teamwork
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📅 Starts April 26 · Sundays
Apr 26, May 10, May 24, Jul 5, Jul 19, Aug 2, Aug 16, Aug 30
🕘 9:30 PM New York time
💰 $407 USD
📩 Register: [email protected]
Tag a therapist friend who needs hours. 👇

07/04/2026

Join us for an international online webinar bringing together leading professional organizations to discuss training, standards, and the future of the Arts in Education, Therapy, Community and Health. This special event offers a rare opportunity to hear from representatives from Europe, Asia, and Australia, learn about their diverse training models, and engage in live dialogue about the evolving practice and integration of the arts across clinical, educational, and community settings. Together, the speakers will share diverse international perspectives on training, professional standards, and the integration of the arts across therapy, education, community, and health contexts.

Invited Organizations: Inspirees Institute (China), Agape Academy (Belgium), ANZACATA (Australia, New Zealand and Asia), Art Therapy Italiana (Italy) and LIMS (USA)

For further information and registration please visit: https://www.iacaet.org/event/professional-organizations-in-focus-training-standards-and-the-future-of-the-arts-in-education-therapy-community-and-health/

07/03/2026

Don't miss our March webinar - Authentic Movement Joint Book Launch!

Join us for an international online webinar and joint book launch celebrating three important new contributions to the field of Authentic Movement. This special event offers a rare opportunity to meet the authors, hear the stories behind their books, and engage in live dialogue about the evolving practice of Authentic Movement in clinical, educational, and creative settings.

Featured books and authors:
➡Helen Payne – Authentic Movement for Practitioners: A Culmination of Theory, Practice and Research (Routledge, 2026)
➡Tina Stromsted – Soul's Body: Active Imagination, Authentic Movement, and Embodiment in Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2025)
➡Marcia Plevin & Rosa Maria Govoni – Movimento Autentico. Storia, principi e pratica (Authentic Movement: History, Principles, and Practice, Carrocci, 2025 – Italian edition)

During the webinar, each author will offer an overview of their book, highlighting its central themes, unique contributions, and practical applications. Together, they will reflect on Authentic Movement as an evolving discipline, its roots, current developments, and emerging directions, and how this work can support healing, creativity, and consciousness in our time.

Further information and registration: https://inspirees.glueup.com/event/authentic-movement-joint-book-launch-169702/?act=

31/01/2026

(Un)doing Music Therapy in Palliative and End-of-life Care

Feb 7, 2026
12:00 - 13:30 GMT+0

Don't miss out the February webinar offering some critical perspectives on the (un)doing of music therapy drawing from speakers' practice and research experience in palliative and end-of-life care in Scotland, England and Norway respectively.

This webinar examines collaborative practices in music therapy, focusing on the engagement of participants, research methodologies, and outreach initiatives. It highlights the dual aspects of 'doing' and 'undoing' knowledge generation, thereby fostering analysis, participation, and interdisciplinary discourse. Through examples of practice and research, the utilisation of participatory methods is evidenced to encourage sustained interaction with diverse contexts, resulting in co-created knowledge. Data analysis reveals significant findings that inform ongoing research and service development. The potential for further integration of these approaches is evaluated, specifically regarding their impact on cultural and policy frameworks related to death, dying, and bereavement.

This event will be curated by Stephen Clift: He is Professor Emeritus, Canterbury Christ Church University, and former Director of the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health. He is a Professorial Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and is Visiting Professor in the International Centre for Community Music, York St John University, and the School of Music, University of Leeds.

More information and registration:
https://www.iacaet.org/event/undoing-music-therapy-in-palliative-and-end-of-life-care/

24/01/2026

Call for Participation!

The All-Ukrainian Public Organization (NGO) Art Therapy Association invites participants from around the world (including psychotherapists of various specializations, artists, medical professionals, psychologists, educators, teachers, rehabilitation specialists, social workers, students, and anyone interested in the conference topics) to reflect on and discover TOGETHER new paths for professional development, find and enhance your own resources, and collectively support and advance the art therapy movement in Ukraine and international cooperation at the XXIII International Interdisciplinary Scientific and Practical Conference "Space of Art Therapy: Stories Written in Color", which will be held on 20-22 March 2026 in a hybrid format (online and in-person, Kyiv).

The fourth year of a desperate struggle for Independence, Freedom, and Liberty increasingly highlights
the value of life. We help each other return to it by accepting challenges, overcoming obstacles, and
cultivating compassion and humaneness, taking care of our mental health, creating our own stories, and
weaving them into the history of the nation. Creativity helps us express our emotions and feelings,
assert our individuality, restore and preserve our integrity.
The purpose of the conference is to create a space for supporting art therapists and all those interested
in art therapy as a method, discussing the resources and opportunities of the life-giving space of art
therapy, and exchanging experiences and best practices in the application of art therapy in today's
context. Constructive dialogue among art therapists will help improve both theoretical knowledge and
practical skills in the field

If you are interested in participating in our conference, please send the the abstract of your
presentation or workshop proposal as well as your photo to the email address: [email protected]

https://www.art-therapy.org.ua/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/158280630927838?locale=uk_UA
https://www.youtube.com/

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