When surrounded by storms and challenges, the cycle of nature still serves as something constant and stable in our lives, echoing the cycle of our own lives. Since time immemorial, humans have used materials from nature to create, the cycle of nature has been an object of creation, of exploration, a ceremonial anchor, a sign of changing time and sometimes precisely the special moment in it. We are transient and still leave our mark on the world.

In the workshop we will watch a short presentation by earth artists who have raised questions about the space and time in which art exists. Together we will explore the qualities of working with natural materials, which symbolize the temporary, the fleeting, the perishable and the renewable. We will be inspired by haiku poetry about nature and the cycles of life.

Moderator – Gili Navot, art therapist and senior instructor at the school, owner of a private clinic. Senior lecturer in the art therapy program at the Ono Academic Center. Has 30 years of experience working with children and adults.

In this workshop, we will be introduced to new art materials as well as materials that can be prepared independently in the therapeutic studio, all in order to use them for artistic therapeutic interventions.

Moderator – Shavi Medzini , art therapist, psychotherapist, lecturer, senior instructor.

Connecting to the imagination, to the inner world, to meaningful images in the soul, is a healing process. As art therapists, we know the importance of physical contact with creative materials as part of this process. The current technological age provides us with additional means that allow us to give tangible visual form to vague contents. The very contact with those contents, whether with conventional art materials or digital tools, is also a significant factor in healing the soul. The soul is the artist who creates, whether with a brush, clay, a panda or a computer mouse.

In the workshop, we will experience personal work with digital technological tools as means of expressing our inner world. Participants are invited to prepare in advance a database of significant images from their lives, for work in the workshop.

Moderator – Pazit Doshi, art therapist, lecturer and instructor, psychotherapist with a psychoanalytic approach and candidate at the Israeli Institute of Jungian Psychology. Specializes in working with children and youth, parent training and integrates a variety of tools, traditional and technological, in the studio.

The past year has led us to experience extreme transitions between pain, despair, and hope, and these have become permanent residents in our bodies and homes. In the workshop, we will use artistic creation as a bridge between these powerful experiences, through transitions between fields of expression and creation such as drama, movement, music, and visual art. The workshop opens up the possibility for participants to explore the depths of personal pain, give it form and place, and find the hope that grows from life experiences.

Through three stations, participants will be invited to move through intense and complex emotions, process them, and discover the process of liberation and fulfillment they enable. At the end, we will create a supportive group space for reflection, discussion, and sharing.

Moderator – Dr. Michal Lev , integrative family and couples psychotherapist, therapist and instructor through art (No. 1143). Master's degree lecturer, faculty member at the Israeli Academy and creator of professional training programs worldwide, one of the founders of ARTIS – an academic program that combines creativity and science, at the Weizmann Institute of Science, active researcher in Israel and internationally.

In dealing with trauma, and especially after the events of 7/10, we deal with the damage of the fracture and shaking of the trauma, but even more so with the difficulty of finding expression and validity for the difficult events.

In the workshop, I invite you through the three stages of psychodramatic work to build together a narrative space that holds and heals, shared by the victim and witnesses. Using psychodramatic tools, we will create a creative, healing space that moves between the desire to talk about the trauma and give it validity and the desire to repress it. Together, through psychodrama, we will heal the wounds of pain and trauma.

Moderator – Dr. Mali Nir , psychodramatist, therapist instructor and lecturer in psychodrama master's degree programs in Kiryat Ono. Expert in treating coping with trauma in general and trauma of terrorism and war in particular, anxiety and crisis situations.

The group is a central component of the psychodrama process. The interpersonal relationships that exist in the group are expressed in sociometry (a relationship map). Using sociometry as a tool and providing interpretation of the manifestations that are expressed contributes to the development of awareness and the development of personal identity. In the workshop we will experience the group experience while using sociometry as the center of the group process.

Moderators –

Hernan Pavlux , psychodramatist, member of the Israeli Institute for Group Analysis, South Sharon Institute, private clinic in Ra'anana. Lecturer in the Master's degree program in Psychodrama Therapy at Ono Academic College.

Dr. Batsheva Rekanti , certified psychodramatist and group facilitator, instructor. Lecturer in the Master's degree program in Psychodrama Therapy at Ono Academic College. Expert in dealing with trauma and situations of grief and loss.

Since October 7, many of us have had our sense of existence shaken. The country's borders have been breached, and in a parallel process, mental structures have cracked and the intimate couple space has been shaken. In the psychodrama workshop, we will be able to provide examples of gaps that have arisen in the couple space and look for ways to create a gentle and stable foundation for connected, healing, and creative intimacy. 

Moderator – Anat Biran Frost , psychodermatist and certified sex therapist. Accompanying women throughout the life cycle in processes related to intimacy and relationships. Therapist in a private clinic, the "Ishi" clinic and the sexual rehabilitation clinic at the "Reut" Medical Center, Tel Aviv. 

In the workshop, we will identify existing "empty" spaces and use their liminal quality to create something out of nothing.

We will treat emptiness as a potential space for creation in its creative and emotional context.

We will dwell in spaces of conscious emptiness that will serve as containers for unconscious materials, we will examine the real being as a gateway

To the depths of the unconscious and the symbol as a transformative gateway and creative space.

Offerings –

Mini Shoshan, my mother tongue is dance, and it found expression in my studies of movement therapy and dance. Later, I developed the language of love for words through my studies of philosophy and literature. Today, I am a therapist in a private clinic, a certified instructor, and a lecturer in the movement therapy and dance program at the Ono Academic Center.

Dr. Yifat Shalem-Tzafri, together with her colleagues, established the unit for victims of sexual assault in Kfar Shaul. Expert in Yona Shahar-Levi's Epimotor Method. Lecturer in the Movement and Dance Therapy Program at the Ono Academic Center, instructor, researcher and maintains a private clinic. 

We would like to invite you and us,

To meet in a space that opens to many faces,

that a movement can ask for itself and offer us,

In the way we are and in the way we are not..

This enigmatic space has a place to create itself by our very presence in it…

Moderators – Tirza Shapanoff and Manny and Miri Kotik, lecturers and therapists in movement.

This workshop is based on qualitative research that mapped therapeutic processes and interventions in movement therapy in children dealing with anxiety (Bresler Nardi et al., 2022). The results of the research gave rise to a therapeutic model that assists in diagnostic and assessment processes as well as in building a treatment plan tailored to the patient's needs.

Based on the research findings, we will learn the function of "movement reflection" as a basis for diagnosing and evaluating personal and interpersonal patterns, we will learn to characterize and distinguish between different types of movement reflections that are available to us as therapists. And how these can form a foundation for building movement language as a therapeutic language in the room and as a foundation for deepening movement interventions according to the needs of the patients.  

Moderator – Ayla Bresler Nardi , movement therapist and instructor at the Children and Youth Clinic at Geha Hospital. Lecturer for a master's degree in movement and dance therapy at the Ono Academic Center and a doctoral student in the Bar Ilan Psychoanalysis and Interpretation track.