This page is for online tickets. If you’d like to join in-person, please see our in-person tickets.

Conference theme

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.

About the day

Online ticket holders will join a live stream via Zoom. The 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.

Programme

Online tickets will include main speaker presentations and plenary sessions from the main auditorium. Online tickets will not include afternoon parallel experiential art-making sessions.

Keynote presentation:
Reconnecting through wool – collaboration, craft, and the senses

Internationally renowned artist Claudy Jongstra  will share her vision and practice, exploring the power of collaboration and the profound value of natural materials—particularly wool.

Collaboration: Drivers, directions and dimensions

What does collaboration mean for art therapists? Drawing on examples of innovative practice from around the world alongside their own professional experience, Helen Jury and Ali Coles will explore the drivers, directions and dimensions of collaboration in contemporary art therapy.

‘Love’ is the magic ingredient: Co-researching art therapy with people with learning disabilities using inclusive and creative methods

Nicki Power, Claire Hills-Wilson, and The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company’s, five-year partnership is built on trust, shared creativity and honest challenge. Through accessible arts-based inquiry they’ve deepened their co-production relationship, used creativity to disrupt academic barriers, and shaped accessible art therapy research. They will reveal the messy magic of genuine co-production and how it’s changed them all.

Sensory Synergy: Art and occupational therapy in collaboration

Art therapist Catherine Gallagher and occupational therapist Rachel Young demonstrate a unique – if unconventional – synergistic and child-led approach, highlighting the collaborative work between occupational therapy and art therapy. It will show how the theoretical frameworks and practices integrate and complement one another to create an effective intervention.

Full speaker profiles

Tickets

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 online ticket employer-funded bookings is Monday, 6th October.

Prefer to join us in-person? Find out more about our in-person tickets:

In-person 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.