The London hive at the University of Roehampton is the longest single block of the day, running for six hours with an opening welcome from the Moscow hive host.
Welcome
Welcome by Nicola Avery from the Moscow hive host, opening the London program. Hosted by the University of Roehampton.
Art and media art transformation
The presentation reviews typical problems for urban Russian women, including body and self image issues, relationships with partners and fertility. A group session, Women Self Portrait, is described, where arts and intermodal expressive arts therapy approaches helped change participants' self image, expand their range of play and increase self acceptance.
Varvara V. Sidorova, PhD, REAT, educator and psychologist. Head of the postgraduate expressive arts therapy programme at Moscow State University of Psychology and Education and founder of the Expressive Arts Therapy Association in Russia.
KinoAnima, expressive arts video therapy
KinoAnima is an expressive arts video therapy in which clients create videos about themselves in real time using chroma key. Each session ends with a completed video reel. This presentation shows the therapist and client use of movement and visual imagery while backgrounds and music change.
Sofiya Koroleva, psychologist, expressive arts therapist and gestalt therapist
What do we know about United Kingdom art therapists' views on digital art therapy?
Findings from a 2016 survey. The presentation sets the scene for the United Kingdom hive by outlining the digital strategy in health and social care and presenting findings from a survey of art therapists' views of digital technology within their practice.
Michèle Wood, HCPC registered art therapist. A principal teaching fellow at the University of Roehampton with a research interest in digital technology in art therapy.
Embracing the future with computers and art therapy: two decades revisited
Art therapists are now exploring computer based art therapy practice in ways that could not have been anticipated two decades ago. The presentation notes the historical beginnings, then identifies trends, progress and challenges in contemporary technology use.
Barbara Parker Bell, PsyD, ATR BC
Discuss, move, make: Roehampton hive audience responses
In person attendees respond to presentations through discussion, art making, music and movement.
Facilitators include Emer Douglas, Vicky Kammin, Jonathan Isserow and Sanjini Kedia
Internet art therapy
This video documents the early development in the 1990s of technology and clinical guidelines for Internet art therapy. Kate Collie and Davor Cubranic at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver collaborated to create a computer system for group art therapy using voice communication and shareable computer art. The clinical guidelines are still in use.
Kate Collie, MFA, PhD, artist, art therapist and retired psycho oncologist
Digital, remote, connected: the future of art therapy in the Scottish Highlands?
How can art therapists use digital technology to reach clients who live remotely and extend the toolbox? The talk examines common resistance to technology, discusses challenges and explores ways to use digital media in art therapy practice.
Ania Zubala, PhD, research fellow in digital health at the University of the Highlands and Islands
Developing care on line in oncology and palliative care
A presentation on the experience of using digital technology to provide an art therapy group for immunosuppressed people having chemotherapy. With reference to the research findings, the presenters explore the different experience of participants and the art therapist, and what that means for making meaningful connections in a digital therapy setting.
Gudrun Jones, MPhil, art therapist; Dr Rachel Rahman, FHEA, CPsychol, AFBPsS; and Dr Martine Robson, BA with honours, PGCT HE
Artocene digital and innovation in digital art therapy
This short interview with Carol and Iva gives a snapshot of why they both believe in the added value of digital art therapy, shares personal experience, and explains the motivation behind building a new digital platform. Learn more at artocene.com.
Iva Fattorini, MD, MSc, and Carol Hammal, MA, art psychotherapist
Figure and portrait by therapist and patient
The presentation explores the use of sequenced digital photography as a record of a drawing made by a hospice patient in art therapy, alongside a response drawing by the art therapist. The sequences are shown with live commentary. Learn more at andyridley.com.
Andy Ridley, HCPC art psychotherapist, MSc adult and mental health nursing
Together we are stronger: collaborative family work in a children's hospice
An exploration of the continuum of multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary working used to meet the diverse needs of one family. The music therapist, art therapist and other professionals worked alongside social services, health and education to support a family in crisis, using music technology throughout.
Victoria Kammin, HCPC music therapist
Q&A
Questions and answers with the presenters.
Chair: Michèle Wood
Think virtual reality is just for gaming?
Insights into how immersive technology can benefit people and communities. Leon shares the work of his studio with virtual reality technology for training public sector workers, and their research and collaboration with a hospice using virtual reality with palliative patients.
Leon Ancliffe, managing director at Flix Films
The search for anchors in a digital ocean
In introducing older people to digital technologies, the speaker observed benefits in communication and in exploring interests. He argues for the further potential to anchor personal lives by preserving and sharing personal and family content with digital tools, describing initiatives in this area and considering their psychological implications.
Charles Miller
Digital coursework as assessment in art psychotherapy training
The presentation explores digital artefacts as assessment in the training of art psychotherapists.
Jonathan Isserow, PhD, HCPC art therapist, convenor of the master of arts in art psychotherapy and head of partnerships at the University of Roehampton
Phone as family: social media as mitigation for attachment damage
The maintenance of healthy attachment has been damaged on an industrial scale by modern work life. We embrace social media with a fantasy of repair, but now panic that it creates new damage instead. Can the same technology be harnessed therapeutically?
Mark Wheeler, HCPC art psychotherapist
Discuss, move, make: Roehampton hive audience responses
A second round of audience response through discussion, art making, music and movement.
Various facilitators
Q&A and comfort break
A short break with questions.
Closing discussion
Summary discussion, questions and closing of the London hive.
Chair: Michèle Wood
Next stop Philadelphia
The broadcast continues across the Atlantic to Drexel University for virtual reality art making and mindfulness research.