Spring symposium Barcelona 2023

Marta Canellas Crusellas

Expressive arts therapist and director of IATBA. Bachelor of arts in Pedagogy of Music and Movement by the Vienna University of Music. She works as a therapist, supervisor and teacher at IATBA, in addition to offering workshops to bring music and the arts to different groups (music students and teachers, elderly people in care homes and early childhood, as well as in the field of mental health). She is the author of several musical stories and teaching materials for early childhood published by Bellaterra Music Ed.

Hjørdis Mair

Co-founder and leader of the Institute InArtes Zurich/Switzerland,MA, CAGS/EGS, Expressive Art therapist. With a background as a pedagog she works with children with mentally challenged parents/Kinderproject Barca. As a poet she focusses on finding words in wordless times through expressive experiences to reinforce resilience.

José Miguel Calderon MSc, Phd

Co-founder of TAE Peru/ Barcelona Institute. Director of the PhD program in Expressive Arts of the European Graduate School, Switzerland. Therapist and expressive arts supervisor. His interest is focused on Arts Based Research and on the exploration of movement and creative writing.

Keshet Zur, B.A. M.A.

Co-founder and co director of Expressive Arts Ireland. Keshet has a fine art background and a degree in Photography and Media, she works in private practice in Dun Laoghaire Co Dublin and facilitates workshops and education programs with Expressive Arts Ireland. Her practice is trauma informed and person-cantered. Registered member of The Irish Association of Creative Art Therapist and The European Federation of Art Therapy.

Eva Bischofberger

Is a dance and expressive arts therapist. After working as a psychomotor therapist with children and parents, she became a dance therapist and taught in Zurich, Switzerland. 1992, she met Paolo Knill and started to teach at the Training Institute for art therapy in Zurich, where she became the director of the Institute during 10 years (in Co- directing with Brigitte Wanzenried) She taught in Finland, Germany, Danmark and for the last 15 years in Barcelona.

In Zurich, she works with groups with expressive dance and does one to one therapy in the method of intermodal expressive art.

Judith Alalú Langnas

Co-founder of TAE Peru institute. Phd candidate in expressive arts therapy at the European Graduate School. Faculty member at EGS. Graduated in clinical psychology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Therapist and supervisor of expressive arts, and member of the Peruvian Association of Expressive Arts (APDARE). She is co-author of the painting and poetry book Vital Exodus, and coauthor of the book «Dolor y belleza».
Judith Alalu Langnas

Mónica Sorín

She has a PhD in Psychology, psychodramatist, teacher and researcher. She has taught courses and workshops in universities and institutions in fifteen countries in Europe and America. Her teaching style is characterized by integrating theoretical questioning with experiential, corporal and psychodramatic work. Apart from numerous articles and chapters in collective books, she has published eight books. She has written two plays, both performed (Teatro Guiñol Nacional and Teatro Estudio, in Havana). She directs the Master of Transdisciplinary Art Therapy and Human Development, initially at ISPA and currently at the Institute of Transdisciplinary Art Therapy of Barcelona (IATBA)

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Is a professor, psychotherapist, expressive arts professional and poet. She is the Dean of the Division Arts, Health and Society at EGS, and she is a member of the original Core Faculty of the European Graduate School (EGS). She was an Assistant Professor at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. Margo Fuchs Knill works in private practice and teaches expressive arts internationally at training institutes in Europe, Russia, Asia, Latin America and the US. She is the author of numerous poetry books. Her latest book together with Sally Atkins is titled Poetry in Expressive Arts. Supporting Resilience through Poetic Writiing Margo Fuchs Knill