The Lithuanian Art Therapy Association (LDTA) invites you to a two-day conference-seminar where professional insights, international experience, and live creative experience meet.
On October 23, a conference (10:00 AM - 5:00 PM) will be held, bringing together specialists in mental health, social support, education, and art therapy. We will talk about what is becoming increasingly important today - the ability to see a person through creativity, emotions, and relationships. The conference will feature presentations by Lithuanian and foreign lecturers, presenting modern art therapy methods, practical work models, and the latest professional insights.
You can attend the conference in person or remotely.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
9:30 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:05 LDTA Chairwoman Remigija Gilė - opening of the conference and welcome speech.
10:05 - 10:30 Monika Tekutienė, art therapist, CBT consultant - “Working with feelings in the therapeutic process”.
10:30 - 11:00 Olegas Lapinas, physician, psychotherapist - “Drawing a personal mandala - as a psychotherapeutic tool”.
11:00 - 11:30 Dalia Stiklerienė, art therapist, practitioner of existential analysis and logotherapy - “Integrating logotherapy and existential analysis in art therapy when working with patients in the field of mental health”.
11:30 - 12:00 Jurgita Zigmantė, head of education at MO Museum, expert in cultural education - “Visual Thinking Strategy: how artworks stimulate thinking, emotional perception, and dialogue”.
12:00 - 1:30 PM Lunch*
1:30 - 2:00 PM Specialists from the Therapeutic Education Center “Aplink”: Simona Vaštakienė and Erika Ratkevičiūtė - “Student emotional well-being and art therapy at school”.
2:00 - 3:00 PM Camilla Mele, PhD, art therapist, lecturer, and expert in international humanitarian projects (Italy/Switzerland) - “When words are not enough: an integrated creative therapy model focused on traumatic experience”. **
3:00 - 3:30 PM Coffee break
3:30 - 4:00 PM Agnė Sakevičiūtė, certified mindfulness teacher, Gestalt psychotherapy practitioner, MO Museum educator and lecturer - “Creativity as a mindfulness practice: MBAT experience between art and awareness”.
4:00 - 5:00 PM Dace Visnola, art therapist, supervisor, lecturer, sandplay therapy practitioner (Latvia) - “Client-centered practice based on color exploration in expressive arts therapy”. **
The conference on the 23rd is registered on the VASPVT Competence Platform and coordinated with the Competence Center of the Institute of Hygiene. Those attending the conference in person will be issued electronic certificates confirming 5 hours of general competence improvement. Those attending remotely will be issued LDTA certificates.***
On October 24 (10:00 AM - 6:00 PM), we invite you to an exclusive SEMINAR “INTEGRATED PRACTICE: CREATIVITY, MOVEMENT, STORYTELLING” with art therapist and lecturer from Switzerland, Camilla Mele, PhD.
Prof. Camilla Mele combines art therapy, movement, music, drama, and trauma-informed methods in her work.
Camilla has been working for over 15 years in the fields of social inclusion, community development, conflict resolution, and humanitarian aid. Her work includes developing training programs for refugees, vulnerable communities, and humanitarian aid specialists, applying therapy methods from different art disciplines. Camilla created, coordinates, and teaches in the TRACE (Trauma-Informed Creative Arts Therapy) program at the University of Padua, where she teaches how art therapy can help people overcome traumatic experiences. Her methods combine body awareness practices and art therapy to strengthen resilience, body self-awareness, and changes in traumatic experience at both the individual and community levels.
In the full-day experiential seminar, participants will be invited to explore an integrated art therapy model through art therapy, movement, music, and storytelling. The practical seminar activities are focused on personal and professional development, deeper reflection, experiencing group processes, and integrating the methodology into the participants' professional work.
The seminar includes body awareness and movement practices, a creative art process, musical improvisation, individual and group reflection, and work in pairs and small groups. The number of participants is limited to 40 people. The seminar is only available in person.
Seminar duration: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, coffee and lunch breaks are scheduled*.
The event will be photographed and filmed. Photos and video recordings may be used for event promotion on social networks, websites, in the press, etc.
* Lunch during the event is not included in the ticket price. ** Presentations by foreign lecturers and the seminar will be held in English, with translation into Lithuanian. *** Information on how to receive the certificate will reach you after the event.