Annual conference 2025: Art therapy and collaboration (in-person ticket)
Join us in person at the Wellcome Collection for our 2025 annual conference, where we’ll be exploring collaboration and art therapy.
Annual conference 2025: Art therapy and collaboration (in-person ticket)
Join us in person at the Wellcome Collection for our 2025 annual conference, where we’ll be exploring collaboration and art therapy.
This year our annual conference will be a hybrid event. This page is for in-person tickets. Online tickets are available on this webpage.
Together we will consider how art therapists can collaborate with different professions and practitioners and explore recent developments in collaborative practices that continue to shape the field.
At the heart of this conference will be a recognition of the importance of co-production and understanding and championing service user voices. This exciting and evolving approach has deepened the art therapy experience for everyone involved and sits at the core of art therapy values.
Through a rich programme of presentations, the day will offer space to reflect on how art therapists can work collaboratively – considering environment, setting, and shared or overlapping spaces – and offer inspiration for new ways of working together.
Photographs from our 2024 annual conference at the Wellcome Collection
About the day
The 2025 in-person event will be held at the Wellcome Collection, a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we all think and feel about health. It is a short walk from Euston Station, London. In-person tickets include a light lunch and refreshments throughout the day.
We have listened to your feedback! The 2025 programme will include more seating, space, and time for networking. The venue has accessible toilets on all floors of the building. There are self-contained cubicles (creating a safe and private space for all genders), accessible toilets with baby-changing facilities and a Changing Places toilet on Level 0.
Doors will open at 9.30am for a 10am start.
Programme
Keynote speaker, Claudy Jongstra
Claudy Jongstra is renowned globally for her monumental woollen art installations and her artworks are part of many collections. She maintains a herd of indigenous sheep and runs a biodynamic farm to grow dye plants – effectively combining her artist’s practice with ecological stewardship. Jongstra is dedicated to transferring knowledge and skills to younger generations and to strengthen society by focusing on collaboration.
Collaboration: Drivers, directions and dimensions
Helen Jury and Ali Coles
What does collaboration mean for art therapists? Drawing on examples of innovative practice from around the world alongside their own professional experience, Ali and Helen will explore the drivers, directions and dimensions of collaboration in contemporary art therapy. Spanning collaboration with people, places and processes, they will discuss key issues in relation to art therapy theory, values and ethics, drawing on the views of both therapees and therapists.
Ali Coles is an Art Psychotherapist working within NHS secondary adult mental health services in Gloucestershire. She teaches on the MA Art Psychotherapy course at the University of South Wales and has been an Associate Editor of The International Journal of Art Therapy. She was awarded a PhD by Publication in 2024.
Helen Jury is an Art Psychotherapist, and supervisor. She is a visiting lecturer on MA Art Psychotherapy clinical trainings, an external examiner, and teaches on the MASC in Creative Health at UCL. Between 2010 and 2024, she was also an Associate Editor of IJAT. In 2010, she set up the MA in Art Psychotherapy at University of South Wales, leaving in 2016 to pursue doctoral research.
The full programme will be available closer to the time.
Tickets
A limited number of in-person tickets are available, early booking is advised to avoid disappointment. In-person ticket bookings will close on Friday 17 October 2025, or earlier if tickets sell out. In early October, in-person ticket holders will be invited to complete a Conference Delegate Form to provide dietary and access requirements and a preference for the afternoon parallel session. Please refer to our event terms and conditions or email us at events@baat.org for more information.
Tickets for our annual conference can ONLY be purchased directly from our website.
Employer-funded bookings can be made for in-person or online participation by completing an invoice request form and returning it to events@baat.org. The deadline for employer-funded bookings is Monday, 6th September.
Can’t join us in person? Find out more about our online tickets:
Sponsors
Art therapist awards sponsor Daler-Rowney.
Inspiring Creativity Since 1783. First founded as a pigment company for wigs in the UK, Daler-Rowney has grown into an internationally-renowned fine arts manufacturing company with colours & pigments still at its core. From paint, brushes and surfaces to accessories, luggage and easels, Daler-Rowney produces & sells products for artist of all experience levels.
Frequently asked questions
Bookings for our online Introduction, Foundation, ARTiculate, CPD and Masterclass courses close one week before the start date, at 10.00am.
Joining instructions and materials will be available in your Memberzone, under bookings, once bookings have closed. A reminder email will be sent out to delegates one week before the course.
It is the attendees’ responsibility to check they have access to the joining instructions before the course. Contacting the office on the day or evening before the start date will not always be responded to prior to the course starting.
Employer funded bookings are available for our online Introduction, Foundation, ARTiculate, CPD and Masterclass courses.
These bookings can be made on our website by paying by card at no extra cost. The booking should be made on the delegate’s account as we will need their contact details for the course. If they don’t have an account they can create one for free here. The employer will be required to provide their credit/debit card details to complete the payment. Please also tick the employer funded option at checkout.
If your employer wants to pay by invoice, you will need to complete our Invoice Details Request – Course Booking Form, and return it to us along with a PO number. Please note, we cannot accept the form without a PO number. Please note, there is an additional £20 admin fee for bookings via invoice.
If you need further assistance, please contact us at events@baat.org.
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