New Executive Board
For the past few months, we have been busy recruiting new chairs and regional directors for various committees of IACAET. This rigorous process included formal applications, CVs, and vision letters submitted and reviewed by our Executive Committee. We are excited to have brought in enthusiastic individuals with impressive backgrounds.
It is our great pleasure that Dr. Val Huet has taken the role of president of IACAET. We believe that under the leadership of Val, the EC and EB, we are in a position to shape IACAET for the next stage of development and growth.
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IACATE new website launched (with user guide) IACAET launched its new website in April 2024 with better design and functionalities. One of the highlights is the Member Zone exclusively for IACAET registered members. The new website intends to provide better service to our members and professional community. For the brief of the new website, download IACAET new website guide. |
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Membership We are glad to welcome the newly joined IACAET Organizational Professional members: - SRH Hochschule Heidelberg – School of Therapeutic Sciences (Germany)
- Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy (Australia)
- Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (US)
- Fine Arts School of Hangzhou Normal University (China)
- Associazione Compagnia DanzArte（Italy – Egypt）
- Citta Consultancy (Myanmar)
- Center for Somatic Studies (US)
- Applied Drama & Expressive Arts Education Research Center, BNU (China)
- Fundación Danza Arte y Salud (Mexico)
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2024 past events - Jun 20. 2024 | Moving Kinship: Practicing Feminist Justice in a More-than-Human World
- May 18. 2024 | Chakra Awareness through Dance Movement Therapy: an Exploration of the Chakra Energy Centers
- May 3. 2024 | Making Meaning with Machines: Somatic Strategies, Choreographic Technologies and Notational Abstractions through a Laban/ Bartenieff Lens
- Feb 29. 2024 | Psychotherapy and Training in Urban China: A Transformation of Mind and Society
- Jan 11. 2024 | Buddhist Learning Center in Spain: Advancing Humanity, Peace and East-West Dialogue
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| - Jul 17. 2024 | Creativity I Focus: Phenomenology, Enaction, and Collaboration with Artificial Intelligence (Read more)
- Aug 16. 2024 | Chinese Calligraphy & Expressive Arts Therapy: Integrating the East and West Perspectives
- Sep 25. 2024 | Creative Arts in Health and Wellbeing - North-South Perspectives. Two presentations from Europe
- Oct 20. 2024 | The Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy: Gestures and their Meanings in Treatment and in Everyday Life
- Apr. 2025 | Creative & Expressive Arts Therapy Summit
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Call for proposals If you are interested in presenting at IACAET webinars, please follow the guideline and send your proposal. |
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Editorial Rebecca Zarate, Vivien Marcow Speiser, Liwen Ma, Jun Hu, Michal Lev
Intimate Representations of Displacement Michal Lev
Change Process Research in Music Therapy Lorenzo Antichi
Studio Art Therapy as a Learning ecology: crossing borders between art, education, health and therapy, a Deleuzoguattarian perspective Kathryn Meyer Grushka
The Art of Planting Rice as a Meditative Practice: Sensemaking and Equanimity about Societal Disruption through Performance Art Jem Bendell
Mural painting and inclusive research in Cameroon Paul Animbom
Embracing the Kahankar and the Ahankar Devika Mehta Kadam
Cultural Appropriateness, Arts-based Care and Well-Being in Sensitive Research Ying Wang
The Lexicon of Pain Sextou, Persephone
Navigating Resilience: Developing The M.A.P. Framework for Supporting Children Through Familial Adversity in Hong Kong Kit Ping Wong
Art Encircles Life: Journeying with, in and through the expressive arts Vivien Speiser, Phillip Speiser |
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CAET Discoverable in SCOPUS
CAET is officially indexed in Scopus with the articles published in 2021-2024 now discoverable on Scopus source list: Other articles in the previous years (2015-2020) will be added to Scopus source in the near future. Till now, CAET has published 300+ articles. |
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Winter Edition of CAET 2024
We welcome submissions that engage with any of these themes or offer new perspectives on the transformative potential of artful living practices. Join us in nurturing a discourse that celebrates the resilience and creativity inherent in human expression.
We cordially invite authors to contribute papers to CAET in order to share your current perspectives among colleagues in the East, West, and the rest of the world. Artistic formats are supported together with scholarly writing. Submitted manuscripts should contain 4,000-6,000 words and make a direct effort to include the Far East region in their content. We also encourage submissions of artworks related to our topics and fields. Full submission guidelines can be found at the CAET website. Inquiries regarding journal policy, manuscript preparation, and other such general topics should be sent to the CAET editorial office: caet.journal@inspirees.com.
This journal edition is intended to be thought-provoking and accessible to all, offering perspectives on how we can use the arts to make sense of working in groups and communities on a global scale. We encourage submissions in all genres that utilize art in its colourful array: drama, performance, poetry, dance and movement, music, visuals, and other intermodal expressive arts forms.
We strongly recommend that you read the published CAET articles online, in order to get some idea of the styles of CAET and our requirements.
We look forward to your submission. Hoping in hope that all contributions to this journal may support us all in times of angst, fear, rage and confusion. Whoever and wherever you are on earth your contributions are eagerly awaited. Many thanks in advance for your willingness to submit your writing to the CAET journal.
Submission deadline: September 1st 2024 |
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Big congratulations to CAET Co-Editor Dr. Rebecca Zarate who will be joining the University of Utah, College of Fine Arts leadership team on July 1, 2023 as the newly-appointed Associate Dean for Research. A board-certified Music Therapist (MT-BC) and licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT), Zarate comes to the U from Lesley University, where she has been on the faculty, a fellow in the Institute for Arts and Health, and director of the Music and Mental Health Research and Teaching Laboratory.
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Vivien Speiser, Phillip Speiser, Lesley University (USA), University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
This article presents the work of two expressive arts therapists who traveled and taught around the world between February and April 2024.
Our journey actually started on October 7, 2023 when we were supposed to start teaching in Israel, and instead found ourselves waking up into the barbaric outbreak of this new Israeli - Hamas war. Since that time and in the aftermath of a world forever marked by this tragedy and its aftermath, we have been searching for ways of being of service and engaging in and amplifying our understanding of the ways in which the arts contribute towards healing and the building of resilience in times of conflict, war and disaster. During our journey we teach in established creative and expressive arts therapy training programs in South Africa and India as well as teach in burgeoning and newly developing programs in Zambia and China. Wherever we go we are surrounded by the arts and arts practices and learn again about the life saving universality and importance of artistic expression. |
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Final talk by Janet Adler: Witness Consciousness and Forgiveness, hosted by World Arts & Embodiment Forum, 2023 (https://www.waef2023.org/).
About Authentic Movement Authentic Movement is a contemplative embodied practice of exploring one’s self through body movement developed in the United States by Mary Stark Whitehouse (1960’s) expanded and deepened by the studies and work of Joan Chodorow and Janet Adler. Three basic threads create the weave of this practice: To Move – the mover. To be Seen – the witness, and the Relationship between them.
Origins of the practice belong to the natural need of the infant to be seen and supported with love at the moment of birth. As adults, we too have a longing to be seen to be who we are in relationship to a loving compassionate non-judgmental other. Overtime within the sacred space of the practice the mover now moving in a collective senses connection of oneself to the larger reality of unity consciousness, being connected to the whole.
Authentic Movement with its roots in dance movement therapy is used in clinical settings in psychotherapy, for training therapists, in supervision, in educational and creative venues and for spiritual growth practice. From its beginnings in the United States, it is now taught and practiced in countries around the world.
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Abstract This article reviews the history of the Japanese art of Ikebana and the contemporary ecological art therapy practice involving botanical arranging and their correlation and contribution to the physical and mental well-being of human beings. Different perspectives are offered by a Brazilian Ikebana professor, with a neurological background, from the Ikenobo School, a Russian art therapist specializing in ecological art therapy, and a Chinese creative art therapist with a biomedical background. Ikebana and botanical arranging are considered forms of creative interaction with nature, providing multiple therapeutic effects and showing us how to realign with the laws of nature.
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Here you will find the special offer of courses as well as training programs from our members. They are general resources for people seeking different educational goals and intentions of training but are not endorsed by IACAET. If you want your program or courses to be listed, please apply for IACAET organizational membership. |
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Here are some special offers from some of our organizational members. Read more courses and workshops on our Education section. They are general resources for people seeking different educational goals and intentions of training, but are not endorsed by IACAET. |
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Dr. Annie Heiderscheit Learn how music can support health and wellbeing and how music is utilized in music therapy practice
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Dance your Breath 31/08 - 08/09/2024 You will find your personal, original Poetics of Movement! International Dance Movement Therapy Retreat. Livorno - Tuscany - Italy
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Put your ads in the IACAET newsletter to reach 7000+ professionals around the world.
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Combining teaching, practice and research under one roof
In the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes of our School of Therapeutic Sciences, delivered in German and English, you’ll experience varied and innovative teaching. In addition, our specialist outpatient clinics offer you a high degree of practical relevance and optimal working conditions.
• Digital Summer school Music Therapy & Dance and Movement Therapy • Dance Movement Therapy • Music Therapy
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RESEARCH COMMITTEE The IACAET Research Committee is about to resume its work under the co-chairing of Kath Grushka (Australia) and Stephen Clift (UZ).
The first meeting was held on Monday 13th March, when members met to become acquainted with each other and share their research interests. The main business on the agenda was to agree on Terms of Reference for the Committee, and agreeing on operational details.
Any member of IACAET with an interest in research in creative arts in education and therapy is very welcome to join us and contribute to discussion. We are very keen to think about future research-oriented webinars from IACAET, so all ideas are welcome!
Kath Grushka and Stephen Clift, Research Committee Co-chairs
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Membership is steadily growing thanks to the amazing events and outreach by the IACAET leadership. The membership committee continues to collaborate with other committees to help support current member needs and to grow the community at large. We welcome new committee members who are interested in building an inclusive and truly global membership.
EVENTS COMMITTEE We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to join our Event Committee! As a member of this committee, you will have the opportunity to help plan and execute a variety of engaging events and webinars for our organization.
The Event Committee is responsible for all aspects of event planning, from initial idea generation to coordinating with guest speakers and managing the logistics of the actual event. If you have a passion for event planning, strong organizational skills, and enjoy working as part of a collaborative team, we would love for you to get involved.
We look forward to working with you to deliver exceptional experiences for our members!
Joanna To |
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IACAET is growing and we are always looking for new members to join our committees. If you’d like to join us as a committee member, please reach out to us at info@iacaet.org, and we can begin a dialogue to find the right committee for you to join. |
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BECOME A MEMBER OF OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY
Are you looking to connect with other creative arts educators and therapists throughout the world?
IACAET membership helps you and your organization expand horizons and build international connections. IACAET promotes a genuine global dialogue about the role and practice of the creative arts in education and therapy across all regions-from East to West, North to South. As a member, you will gain access to the following resources and opportunities: continuing professional development; our library of global webinars and trainings; CAET-Creative Arts in Education and Therapy Journal; global networking; a supportive community dedicated to advancing visibility and accessibility across the creative arts spectrum.
There are three ways to join IACAET membership - Individual Membership
- Associate Organizational Membership
- Professional Organizational Membership
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