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Arts Therapy

Arts therapy is the practice of using expressive and creative arts, such as painting, singing, or role-playing, to explore psychotherapy and to heal and enhance the life of people undergoing arts therapy.

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healing, growth, art psychotherapy, music therapy, drama therapy, poetry therapy, photo therapy, dance therapy, rehabilitation, communication skills, expression

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Featured Organizations

Telephone Box Performance Company helps offenders and ex offenders face causal issues of their offending, provides an ongoing framework for development of self-awareness, thereby improving offenders/ex offenders prospects within society, and encourages arts practitioners to participate in and raise awareness of the effectiveness of the arts as a tool for rehabilitation.

Peacelinks is an NGO in Sierra Leone with and for the child soldiers, using music, dance and culture as means towards healing, rehabilitation and reintegration of child soldiers back to their community, as well as an effective tool for raising awareness for a culture of peace [in their society].

Barefoot Artists :
Recognizing that creativity and beauty are powerful means to bring on healing and change, Barefoot Artists works with poor communities around the globe practicing the arts to bring healing, self-empowerment and social change.

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PhD Program: ART THERAPISTS AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPISTS: The Doctoral Program in Expressive Arts combines two Summer residential trainings at EGS, leading to a Certificate of Advanced Post-Graduate Studies (CAGS), with individualized dissertation research in the student's home country. The European Graduate School, Switzerland.

Buckeye Art Therapy Assoc. Symposium
This year’s theme, Altered Art: Art as Therapy for Restoration & Renewal features keynote Dr. Lani Gerity, DA, ATR who is an art therapist, artist, and puppet maker on the cutting edge of using altered art techniques to facilitate healing. Sept 28-29 in Dublin, OH.

Resources
Culture After Saddam: Video Artists Restore A Country's Identity In Iraqi Kurdistan : Thanks to foreign journalists, the western public has a significantly increased awareness of the Kurds living in liberated areas of northern Iraq, still vulnerable to Saddam Hussein's revenge. Few people outside the Kurdish homeland, however, are aware of the work of Iraqi Kurdish artists, writers and filmmakers. Their commentary provides an insightful, first-hand perspective on life in northern Iraq after the Gulf War of 1991. Photo Source		Arts and Healing Network is an on-line resource celebrating the connection between art and healing. Our web site serves as an international resource for anyone interested in the healing potential of art, especially environmentalists, social activists, artists, art professionals, health care practitioners, and those challenged by illness. Photo Source