Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies
FINDING SPACES,
MAKING PLACES
Conference Programme
Wednesday 13th April 2016 - Registration and
Conference Opening
14.00 Registration and Refreshments
17.00 Welcome address followed by Keynote Speakers
Patrick Casement - psychoanalyst
Grayson Perry - artist
19.00 Reception
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Thursday 14th April – 1st Day
09.00 Panel Presentations
10.45 Refreshments
11.15 Small Experiential Groups, Open Studio Group, Social Dreaming
Matrix and Dance Movement Psychotherapy Group
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Paper Presentations, Film Space, Installation Art Workshop and
Dance Movement Psychotherapy Group
15.30 Refreshments
16.00 Conference Art Therapy Large Group ending at 17.30
Friday 15th April – 2nd Day
09.00 Panel Presentations
10.45 Refreshments
11.15 Small Experiential Groups, Open Studio Group, Social Dreaming
Matrix and Dance Movement Psychotherapy Group
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Paper Presentations, Film Space, Installation Art Workshop and
Dance Movement Psychotherapy Group
15.30 Refreshments
16.00 Conference Art Therapy Large Group ending at 17.30
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16th Saturday April – Final Day
09.00 Panel Presentations
10.45 Refreshments
11.15 Small Experiential Groups, Open Studio Group, Social Dreaming
Matrix and Dance Movement Psychotherapy Group
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Conference Art Therapy Large Group
15.30 Refreshments
16.00 Plenary ending at 17.00
Conference Aims
We are aiming, in this conference, to attract delegates from around
the world, arts therapists, psychotherapists, artists and art students,
those working with art, or with the arts, in helping people. Together
we are hoping to explore the topic of spaces and places, community
spaces and places held in common, conflicted and contested
spaces, spaces that differ, clinical spaces and aesthetic spaces. We
will engage delegates in making spaces, creating both physical and
imagined places. Through presentations the conference will explore
the social, cultural and political in relation to place and space. We
will be seeking to understand the symbolism particular to space, and
to explore the imagined spaces that maybe critical to the creative
endeavours of therapists, patients and clients. We want delegates to
bring their own questions and insights in relation to space and art
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therapy to the conference where we hope they will find a place to
communicate their understandings and develop thinking through
further discussion and exploration.
The conference is structured to facilitate working with diversity, with
the plurality that characterizes art therapy, the arts therapies and the
psychotherapies of today. Diversity will be held together through
focused panel discussion, boundaried experiential groups, and the art
therapy large group through which the conference as a whole will
engage in visual and verbal dialogue.
The movement between
modes of experiential learning, presentation and verbal exploration,
mirrors our teaching model and in this way we will provide delegates
with a means to process the conference debate.
Panel Speakers:
Hayley Berman, Chris Wood, Patricia Fenner, Penny Best and Sally
Skaife
Small Experiential Group Conductors
Kristen Catchpole, Diana Kagiafa, Susan Rudnik, Lisa Rimmer and
Bruce Currie
Social Dreaming Matrix
Francesca La Nave and Caroline Frizell
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We will be updating this description of the programme regularly as
we agree on details with our panel speakers, workshop leaders and
the organizing committee. For delegates who wish to present a
paper please see our call for papers on the website.
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