10 papers and 12 workshops
Experts from 6 countries
August 8-9, 2020
"Ecological/Earth-Based Arts Therapies: International and Multi-Cultural Perspectives"
Announcement: The First International Conference for Ecological Arts Therapies
The rapid development of the environmental, Earth-based approach in arts therapies, in close connection with the environmental movement, ecotherapy, ecopsychology, environmental education, and green art has prompted us to organize this conference.

The conference is planned as a forum of innovative creative / expressive arts therapy practices based on the ideas and values of the environmental movement, ecopsychology and deep ecology, and aims to contribute to human health in its connection to environmental well-being. The conference will highlight the ecopoietic nature of human beings, their ability to shape the world in order to fulfill their needs and take care of the environment with an aim to see and create beauty.

The conference will be held online.
The language of the conference is
Russian and English.

Participation cost: from 29$ to 65$

See below for details

Note: For those people who cannot see the conference online everything will be recorded and can be seen by later

Contacts for payment WhatsApp:
Maria Kondrateva +7 (977) 399 8190
Ilya Kovalenko +7 (903) 768 5222
The rapid development of the environmental, Earth-based approach in arts therapies, in close connection with the environmental movement, ecotherapy, ecopsychology, environmental education, and green art has prompted us to organize this conference.

The conference is planned as a forum of innovative creative / expressive arts therapy practices based on the ideas and values of the environmental movement, ecopsychology and deep ecology, and aims to contribute to human health in its connection to environmental well-being. The conference will highlight the ecopoietic nature of human beings, their ability to shape the world in order to fulfill their needs and take care of the environment with an aim to see and create beauty.

The conference will be held online.
The language of the conference is
Russian and English.


Participation cost: from 29$ to 65$
See below for details

Note: For those people who cannot see the conference online everything will be recorded and can be seen by later

Contacts for payment WhatsApp:
Maria Kondrateva
+7 (977) 399 8190
Ilya Kovalenko
+7 (903) 768 5222

"The rapid development of the environmental, Earth-based approach in arts therapies, in close connection with the environmental movement, ecotherapy, ecopsychology, environmental education, and green art has prompted us to organize this conference".
Organizing committee
Alexander Kopytin, Stephen Levine,
Viktor Panov, Sergey Alekseev.
MAIN TOPICS OF THE CONFERENCE
• Ecopsychology, deep ecology and ecological, Earth-based arts therapies
• The impact of the environmental movement on the development of the arts therapies
• Social justice aspects in ecological arts therapies
• Contemporary arts therapies and environmental aesthetics, environmental art, eco-art
• Eastern and Western cultural traditions and their perspectives on environmental issues
• Ecological, Earth-based arts therapies in medicine, education, and society
• Ecological, Earth-based arts therapies with children and adolescents
• Ecological, Earth-based arts therapies with families and communities
• Ecological, Earth-based arts therapies and perinatal psychology
• Ecological, Earth-based arts therapies and geriatric psychology work with the elderly
• Ecological, Earth-based arts therapies and stress-related, post-traumatic disorders
• Ecological, Earth-based arts therapies in the treatment and prevention of somatic diseases and psychosomatic disorders
• Ecological foundations of traditional cultures and healing/shamanic practices
• The use of environmental arts therapies and arts pedagogy for environmental education and the development of environmental awareness
• Environmental arts therapies and ecopsychology, psychology of environmental consciousness
• Environmental art therapy, music therapy, drama therapy, dance & movement therapy, expressive arts therapy, and creative/therapeutic writing
• Digital technologies and media (photography, video, etc.) in the practice of environmental arts therapies
• Climate changes and their impacts on arts therapies practices
• COVID-19 and its impact on the human and natural world
• Integration of arts therapies and animal-assisted therapy, horticultural therapy and other forms of ecotherapy
• Zero and reduced waste art therapy
•Therapeutic environment in ecological arts therapies. New concepts and models of the therapeutic environment
The conference includes keynote presentations,
panel discussions, seminars and workshops
EXPERTS
Alexander Kopytin
Professor, Department of Psychology, St. Petersburg Academy of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education, Associate Professor, Department of Psychotherapy, Medical Psychology and Sexology, North-Western Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov. Chair of Russian Art Therapy Association. He is a Founding Executive Editor of ECOPOIESIS: ECO-HUMAN THEORY AND PRACTICE journal.
Madeline Rugh
PhD, ATR-BC, Assistant Professor, St. Gregory's University in Shawnee, Oklahoma, teaching across disciplines in psychology and visual art. Madeline has facilitated numerous workshops both internationally and in the U.S. on the topic of art therapy with disabled older adults, art therapy and spirituality, and art therapy and ecopsychology. She is an adjunct associate professor for Pratt Institute, the creative therapies graduate program, working as a research/thesis advisor. She is an Advisor of ECOPOIESIS: ECO-HUMAN THEORY AND PRACTICE journal.
Beverley A'Court
BSc.Soc.Sci. (Joint hons. Phil. & Psych.), BAAT registered art therapist. As a long-term member of the Findhorn Foundation Community, she has contributed to many programs, and developed many applications of environmental/eco art therapy. She is an advocate for the recognition of poetic language, the body, ecology and cultural traditions in art therapy (UK).
Shaun McNiff
Lesley University (Cambridge, United States)
author of Imagination in Action: Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression; Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go; Art Heals; Art as Medicine; Integrating the Arts in Therapy; Art-Based Research; Art as Research and other books. An exhibiting painter who has had a seminal influence on the areas of creativity enhancement, the arts and healing, and art-based research. Honorary Life Member Award of the American Art Therapy Association. He established the first integrated arts in therapy and education graduate training program at Lesley University from which the field of expressive arts therapy emerged and in 2002 Lesley appointed him as its first University Professor.
Stephen K. Levine
PhD, Emeritus Professor at York University (Toronto), Founding Dean of the Doctoral Program in the Arts, Health, and Society Division of the European Graduate School (Switzerland), Founder of the International Expressive Arts Association (IEATA) and The Create Institute in Toronto. Editor-in-chief, ECOPOIESIS: ECO-HUMAN THEORY AND PRACTICE journal.
Leslie Carol Roberts
author, essayist, and journalist. Her current post at California College of the Arts (San Francisco) is heading up the dynamic MFA Writing program. She is also a faculty member at the Architectural Ecologies Lab at California College of the Arts, where she is a founder of the ECOPOESIS Movement. Her essays and journalism on food, design, Antarctic tourism, travel, and the sciences have been widely published in the US and abroad. She is the author of Here Is Where I Walk: Episodes from a Life in the Forest and The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica. She is an Advisor of ECOPOIESIS: ECO-HUMAN THEORY AND PRACTICE journal.
Sergey Alekseyev
Doctor of Pedagogy, Professor, Head of the Department of Environmental Pedagogy, Human Safety and Health of the St. Petersburg Academy of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education, Professor of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen, academician of the International Academy of Ecology and Safety Sciences (MANEB), academician of the Russian Ecological Academy (REA), Editor-in-chief, ECOPOIESIS: ECO-HUMAN THEORY AND PRACTICE journal
Viktor Panov
Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Ecopsychology and Psychodidactics, Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education, Member of the Scientific Council on Environmental Education under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Education, Laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation Prize in Education (Moscow)
Jean Davis
MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT is a full-time Professor in Pratt Institute's Graduate Creative Arts Therapy Department. She is the Supervisor of the Creative Arts Therapy Department at the League School, is the former Director of the Transitional Living Community, a program of Brooklyn Community Services, and is the former Clinical Director of the Greenwich Village Youth Council. Jean Davis has postgraduate training in the areas of group therapy, gestalt therapy and applied ecopsychology. She has published written work and conducted presentations on the subject of environmental art therapy and has a private practice in Brooklyn, New York.
Vitold Yasvin
Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of education, Professor of the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology of Education of the Moscow City Pedagogical University, member of the Scientific Council on Environmental Education under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Education (Moscow)
Lyudmila Lebedeva
Doctor of Pedagogy, Professor, Vice-Rector for Research and International Cooperation of the Metropolitan Institute of Professional Education (Moscow)
Varvara Sidorova
Candidate of Psychological Sciences, expressive arts therapist, associate professor of the Department of Individual and Group Therapy, Moscow State Psychological and Pedagogical University, President of the Expressive Arts Therapy Association (Russia)
Christopher Falliers
Associate Professor, a faculty member at the Architectural Ecologies Lab at California College of the Arts (San Francisco), a former chair in the program, where he is a founder of the ECOPOESIS Movement together with Leslie Carol Roberts and Adam Marcus. Chris is also a principal in ULA Design in Berkeley, whose clients include Google and Off the Grid.
Gracelynn Chung-Yan Lau
Expressive Arts Therapist, Graduate Student, Queens University, Department of Cultural Studies (Kingston, Ontario Ave, Canada)
Sarah West
Masters in Public Administration; Honors Bachelor of Arts, Diploma in Art Therapy (Canada), a Graduate Student at the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute
Eric Pfeifer
a professor for aesthetics and communication with a special emphasis on music at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Freiburg, Germany. He is also a music therapist, logotherapist/existential analyst, and systemic family therapist.
Liliya Sharafieva
psychologist, eco-art therapist, head of the eco-art therapy laboratory of the Botanical Garden of Tver State University (Russia, Tver)
Inna Ivzhenko
Doctor of Philosophy, Lecturer at the Department of Theory and Technology of Social Work at the National Pedagogical University named after M.P. Dragomanova (Kiev, Ukraine)
Victoria Yaroslavova
member of the St. Petersburg Creative Union of Artists of Russia, the International Federation of Artists (IFA), art therapist
Alexandra Kirillova
a singer, composer, psychologist, author and leader of "The liberation of voice" training program (Moscow)
Kayum Gazizov
clinical psychologist, trainer of riding, International Equestrian Center (Kazan)
Olga Lopukhova
Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Institute of Psychology and Education, Kazan Federal University (Kazan)
Olga Ornata
contemporary artist, art therapist, lecturer at the British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow), author and host of courses to improve artistic competence for art therapists.
Ilya Kovalenko
executive director of the conference, head of the International School of Art Therapy (Moscow), psychoanalytic psychologist, art therapist.
Alexey Lebedev
doctor-psychotherapist of the psychotherapeutic department of the hospital of war veterans (GBUZ VOKGVV), senior lecturer of the Department of General and Clinical Psychology, Volgograd State Medical University (Volgograd) (Russia, Volgograd)
Alexandra Dvornikova
artist, art therapist (St. Petersburg), art director, ECOPOIESIS: ECO-HUMAN THEORY AND PRACTICE journal.

PROGRAMM
The times listed in the program are for Moscow time zone
REPORTS AND
WORKSHOPS
8 AUGUST



REPORTS AND
WORKSHOPS
9 AUGUST
10:00 - 10:10 - Opening of the conference / Greetings
10:10 - 12:40 - Keynotes/headliners
13:20 - 18:10 - Workshops

10:00 - 11:00 - Lectures from the founders of Russian ecopsychology
11:00 - 12:00 - Papers


WORKSHOPS
9 AUGUST

12:00 - 14:30 - Beverley A'Court (UK)
15:00 - 16:45 - Madeline Rugh (USA)
17:00 - 18:30 - Jean Davis (USA)

8 august - THE CONFERENCE
WELCOME SPEECH TO THE CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS
Shaun McNiff


1. Alexander Kopytin
" ECOLOGICAL/EARTH-BASED ART THERAPY AND THE PARADIGM CHANGE: WHAT ARTS THERAPISTS CAN DO IN THE FACE OF
NEW GLOBAL CHALLENGES
"
With subtitles in English


2. Stephen K. Levine
" THE WAY OF POIESIS: ECOPOIESIS, WU-WEI AND NON-VIOLENCE "
in English


3. Leslie Carol Roberts, Christopher Falliers
" ECOPOESIS AS PRAXIS (IN THESE TIMES): HOW WE HEAR NOW: SOUND, LANGUAGE, AND ENVIRONMENT "
in English

4. Sergey Alekseyev
" THE ECO-HUMAN APPROACH IN EDUCATION AND THERAPY "

With subtitles in English

The times listed in the program are for Moscow time zone
13:20 - 14:50 WORKSHOPS
LAND ART (CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE ENVIRONMENT): OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECOLOGICAL ART THERAPY

Ornata Olga
MANDALA OF SEASONS OF THE SOUL AND BODY

Ivzhenko Inna

With sequential translation into English
ONLINE ECO-ART THERAPEUTIC SESSION MODEL: PROJECTIVE INCENTIVES AND NATURAL RESOURCE

Levedeva Lyudmila
15:00 - 16:30 WORKSHOPS
THE USE OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN ART THERAPY: LANDSCAPES OF CHILDREN-PARENTAL RELATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF SEPARATION

Victoria Yaroslavova
AESTHETICS OF HERBARIA. WHAT PLANTS CAN SAY ABOUT US?

Alexandra Dvornikova
NATURAL LANDSCAPE AS A PLACE TO MEET YOURSELF AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS

Liliya Sharafieva

With sequential translation into English

16:40 - 18:10 WORKSHOPS
POETRY OF STONES: NATURE-ASSISTED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY


Sidorova Varvara


With sequential translation into English
BREATH OF NATURE. OBSERVING AND CELEBRATING CYCLICAL CHANGES IN NATURE IN THE CONTEXT OF THERAPEUTIC VOICE WORK

Alexandra Kirillova
EARTH MY BODY, WATER MY BLOOD: DECOLONIZING OUR SENSE OF SELF


Gracelynn Chung-Yan Lau

In English
The times listed in the program are for Moscow time zone
9 AUGUST - PROGRAM
10:00 – 11:00 Lectures from the founders of Russian ecopsychology

" ECOPSYCHOLOGICAL HYPOTHESIS ON THE NATURE OF PSYCHOTRAUMATIC STATES "

Viktor Panov


" HOW TO DEVELOP ONE'S RELATIONSHIP TO NATURE "

Vitold Yasvin
With subtitles in English
11:00 - 12:00 WORKSHOPS

NATURE, MUSIC, HEALTH, AND WELL-BEING: EMPIRICAL AND THERAPEUTIC PERSPECTIVES

Eric Pfeifer / in English


CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS FOR LAND-BASED DECISION MAKING: ENGAGING THE TRIPLE SPIRAL FRAMEWORK
Sarah West / in English



MORAL AFTEREFFECT OF ART IN THE CONTEXT OF ECOLOGICAL MOVEMENT
Olga Lopukhova, Kayum Gazizov


GIFTS OF NATURE IN ECOLOGICAL ART THERAPY: NATURAL PROPERTIES AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
Liliya Sharafieva

ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACH AS AN OPTIMIZATION FACTOR OF CLINICAL ART-THERAPY WITH WAR VETERANS
Aleksey Lebedev
9 august - WORKSHOPS
The times listed in the program are for Moscow time zone
12:00 - 14:30 WORKSHOP
BEVERLEY A'COURT
Beverley A'Court
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF TENDERNESS IN ECOLOGICAL ART THERAPY


PART ONE: TENDERNESS AS EMBODIED WISDOM IN ECOLOGICAL ART THERAPY - AN INTRODUCTION


PART TWO: PRACTICING THE ART OF TENDER ATTENTION IN ECOLOGICAL ART THERAPY

in English
15:00 - 16:45 WORKSHOP
MADELINE RUGH
Madeline Rugh
INTRODUCTION TO NATURE-ASSISTED ART THERAPY

PART ONE: FINDING YOU SIT SPOT IN NATURE

PART TWO: ART MAKING AT YOUR SIT SPOT: LISTENING WITH YOUR HEART AND HANDS

in English

17:00 - 18:30 WORKSHOP
JEAN DAVIS
Jean Davis
DRAWING NATURE


Art therapy and outdoor creativity - an exploration of the relationship between the environment and internal emotional and psychological states. Theoretical background and practice for work in the city and outdoors.


in English
The times listed in the program are for Moscow time zone
"THE GREEN ART" GALLERY
We decided to accompany the conference with this small exhibition
10% discount on online participation for members
Art Therapy Association.
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