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RUSSIA
Charity Foundation for the Support and Development of Art-
therapy Programmes ”In Search of Harmony”
Art-therapy studies
2, Tchaikovskogo Str., Apt.295
St. Petersburg 191187
Russia
Director: Dr Natalia Martsinkevich
Phone: + 7 812 318 1680
Fax: + 7 812 314 4153
Background, orientation and purpose
The Charity Foundation for the Support and Development of Art-therapy programmes, ’In Search of
Harmony’, was established in St. Petersburg in June 1997 as a public non-profit organisation. The
Foundation was set up by specialists who work in the field of social, psychological and creative
rehabilitation of people who are socially isolated to a major extent due to their specific physical and
psychological problems. It co-operates closely with international, national and local educational
institutions and art centres.
The Foundation’s aims are to assist with professional training and refresher courses in art therapy; to
form a network of organisations and specialists dealing with socio-cultural projects in Russia; and to
assist with providing psychological help and support by art therapy methods to disabled people.
Programme(s) and qualification(s)
Programme I
Objective: To participate in the professional training of specialists in the field of art therapy, develop
and implement new forms of art therapy, and re-train cultural workers.
Programme II
Objective: To develop and appraise the working model of permanent creative workshops that would
integrate different social groups in the creative process, such as adults and children, the healthy and
handicapped, established artists, musicians and actors.
Programme III
Objective: To support the art therapy work of specialists and enhance aid to children with serious
communication problems (children’s autism).
Programme IV
Objective: To promote art therapy as a method of psychological work employing the potential of art;
to define its position in modern systems of psycho-pedagogical, psychotherapeutic and rehabilitation
measures.
Programme V
Interregional Art-therapy Resource Centre “Open Studio”
Programme VI
Cultural project as a catalyst of social changes (training of art-therapy and art management for
curators as a tool of social change through the arts).
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