Building upon the insights gained in Seminar 4, which focused on LGBQT+ and marginalised spaces, Seminar 5 aims to broaden the discourse on social inclusivity. Orchestrated by MA students, faculty, and the program lead from Brunel University London’s esteemed Art Psychotherapy Programme, this seminar stands out by integrating an array of disciplines such as anthropology, ceramics, human development, philosophy, arts-based practices, research, and health. This interdisciplinary approach not only enriches our understanding but also showcases the application of art psychotherapy in addressing societal inequalities and trauma, thereby contributing towards a more inclusive society. The session will underscore our collaborative endeavours with CNWL NHS Foundation Trust and our engagement with healthcare environments.
Participants will gain insights into how arts-based pedagogies can act as vehicles for transformative knowledge.
Highlighting the seminar will be an arts response from second-year Art Psychotherapy students at Brunel University, reflecting both their individual and collective experiences throughout their training. This presentation aims to demonstrate the confluence of art and therapy and its potential to significantly impact healthcare and the broader community.
We invite you to join this thought-provoking seminar to explore the synergy between diverse academic fields and art psychotherapy practices, and to witness the unfolding of art as a potent medium for healing and social change.
Event Question
"How do the methodologies of art psychotherapy pedagogies, as taught by Brunel University, facilitate healing and foster social inclusion?"
When?
22 April 2024
6PM – 9 PM
Where?
In person and online | Brunel University London, Kingston Lane Uxbridge, UB8 3PH Gaskell Building Room 048
Panelists
Liliana Montoya De La Cruz
Liliana Montoya De La Cruz is the Programme Lead for the MA in Art Psychotherapy at Brunel University. She is an art psychotherapist, visual artist and art educator born in Colombia, and has lived most of her life in Europe between the UK, France and Spain. She has an MA in Art Therapy from Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, where she has been lecturing and tutoring since 2017.
In her clinical practice she has worked with children and adolescents in schools, and in social services with women victims of domestic abuse. More recently she has worked in the humanitarian sector with the Red Pencil and the Red Cross implementing art therapy interventions for asylum seekers in refugee reception centres in Spain.
Her research interests include looking at mechanisms of change as perceived by adult refugees after resilience-based art therapy interventions, arts-based embodied ways of learning and the interface between art therapist and artist.
Daniel Stolfi
Daniel is a UK-based drama therapist and medical anthropologist and has a background in English Literature. He teaches the Anthropology and Aesthetics module on the Art Psychotherapy MA at Brunel and is currently helping to develop their MA Dramatherapy programme. He has a specialist interest in the therapeutic uses of puppetry, and how our understanding and experience of suffering and healing are informed by and reproduce social and cultural value. He is active in education, training, research, and publishing in these fields, and has presented his work extensively in the UK, Europe, and the US.
Daniel will talk about the Anthropology & Aesthetics module and provide some context and insight on how it fits into Brunel’s MA Art Psychotherapy programme, keeping in mind the evening’s broader themes of equalities, traumas, arts-based pedagogies, and healing narratives.
Alice Myles
Alice is a lecturer on the MA Art Psychotherapy at Brunel University and art psychotherapist in forensic and adult mental healthcare. Alice has an interdisciplinary academic background, including Psychology, MSc Advanced Multivariate Statistics, Philosophy, Imaging research in the NHS, and Lacanian Psychoanalysis. She has published in the forensic art psychotherapy literature on themes of diagnosis, ethics and a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective on the treatment of patients who have committed sexual offences. Her current research interests include intersections of ethics and aesthetics in teaching quantitative methodologies in art psychotherapy, the signification of pain in feminist art scene and art psychotherapy and the regeneration of reflective practices in secure hospital settings via transhumanism and posthumanism.
Alice will talk will about the integration of quantitative research methodologies and statistics within the MA Art Psychotherapy Programme. Taking disciplines of Philosophy, Ethics and Aesthetics as bass for the design of the module has raised questions about the inclusivity of measurement, the status of mathematics as ‘the language of nature’ (Vicki Kirby, 2011) and how to navigate the interface between new materialism, new AI, transhumanism and capitalist materialism to engender greater social inclusion in arts psychotherapy research.
SEMINAR CHAIR
Professor Dominik Havsteen-Franklin
Dominik Havsteen-Franklin is a British Art Therapist and Clinical Academic of international acclaim, known for his pioneering work in the areas of arts and health. With a dedication to exploring and advancing innovative models of arts-based intervention, he investigates the transformative potential of body movement, musicality, and visual image making within healthcare and public domains.
Presently holding the position of Professor of Practice in Arts Therapies at Brunel University London, Dominik is instrumental in developing arts-based therapeutic practices. In addition, he serves as a Consultant in Arts Psychotherapies for CNWL NHS Foundation Trust. A founding member and Vice President for the European Federation of Art Therapy, Dominik's leadership extends beyond borders, fostering a collaborative and dynamic interdisciplinary terrain for art therapy on an international scale.
Recent Publications:
- Huss, E., Havsteen-Franklin, D., (2023). Developing a theory of social art therapy: Insights from the context of crisis. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 85, 102066.
- Havsteen-Franklin, D., de Knoop, J., Agtarap, T., Hackett, S., & Haeyen, S. (2023). Evaluation of an arts therapies approach to team development for non-acute healthcare teams in low control and high-pressure environments. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 83, 102003.
- Havsteen-Franklin, D., Cooper, J., & Anas, S. (2023). Developing a logic model to support creative education and wellbeing in higher education. Cogent Education, 10(1), 2214877.