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15th International Study Days
for Anthroposophic Art Therapy
For art therapists, art therapy students
in their final year, physicians,
medical students, psychotherapists
and teachers
At the limits of biography
Art therapy in the context of ADHD and dementia
Thursday, 3 January to Sunday, 6 January 2013
Medical Section
Goetheanum

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Dear Colleagues,
We wish to invite you very warmly to the 15th International Study Days for
Anthroposophic Art Therapy. The theme of the conference, “At the limits of
biography”, addresses a broad spectrum of work areas in art therapy. The aspect
of a collaborative approach involving art therapy will be looked at not just with
regard to medicine but also education, special needs education and gerontology.
We are interested in questions such as how people enter the world today, which
impulses they bring with them and the issues we encounter in them. How do we
treat children who already “know” everything and can no longer be childlike?
How do we approach the elderly person suffering from dementia for example?
What are our attitudes in dealing with death. In a number of cultures, old people
are venerated as bearers of wisdom. In our society they tend to be infantilised.
But children, by contrast, are already expected to know and be able to do a lot by
the age of three. What role does our western culture play in dealing with children
and the elderly? Can we learn to understand the symptoms of ADHD and dementia
better and respond therapeutically if we turn our attention to the time before birth
and after death?
Throughout the conference we would like to join with you in looking at the practice
of art therapy in the various fields from the perspective of our understanding of the
human being, education and medicine and to work on therapeutic approaches.
The morning seminar groups are intended to facilitate a living exchange of views
about our work. The work in the seminars is offered on an interdisciplinary basis so
that the perception of one another among the various arts can grow. The afternoon
working groups are intended to focus on active creative work in art therapy.
Speakers from various fields of work such as Michael Ganss (art therapists/
gerontologist), Bernd Ruf (special needs teacher), Dr. med. Andreas Rothdach
and Prof. Dr. med. Peter Selg will, alongside many other lecturers, initiate an
intensive exchange of experiences.
For the first time next year, we offer the opportunity of group accommodation at
a price of CHF 10.00/night. If you wish to avail yourself of this offer please register
with Sabine Theyssen by 20 September 2012.
Sabine.Theyssen@gmx.de
We hope to whet your interest with this conference and look forward to a lively
interdisciplinary exchange of views with you. Please also pass on the conference
documents to any colleagues who might be interested – many thanks!
With warm greetings,
Dr. med. Michaela Glöckler – Section head
Kirstin Kaiser, Ulrike Gerharz and Viola Heckel – Conference preparation
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Interdisciplinary seminar groups
1. Barbara Jaggi-Sidler, Dr. med. Kaspar Jaggi
On the heavenly forces of healing and preserving health
If, as therapists, we wish to perceive and treat one-sided processes in children
and the elderly, we must experience, recognise and maintain the underlying
forces within ourselves: the nourishing formative force of Gabriel, the healing
breathing force of Raphael, the perceptive thinking force of Uriel, the moving active
force of Michael.* Through practice, we will seek these elements with the help of
movement in eurythmy and in conversation so that we can utilise them hygienically
in ourselves and therapeutically in children and the elderly. With eurythmy, also without
any prior knowledge. *GA 229, above all the fifth lecture of 13 October 1923.
2. Dr. med. Jürgen Möller, Dagmar von Freytag-Loringhoven
Ways of understanding and approaching AD(H)D
Ways of understanding and approaching AD(H)D as delayed incarnation
Rudolf Steiner’s anamnesis questions. Diagnosing the components of the
human being as the basis for nuanced treatment (including on request: which
medication). What errors and traps are there in dealing with these children?
What are the prerequisites for a good prognosis. How can intervention through
art therapy be developed and in which context is it helpful? (German)
3. Viola Heckel, Jacques Meulman
ADHD – the child’s healthy reaction to a sick environment. What consequences
arise as a result with regard to treatment?
In this seminar group we will study how we can find access to an archetypal
rhythm through hearing and how we can thereby build a bridge between the
inner and the outer world. Exchange of experiences with practical exercises from
talking and music therapy. (German)
4. Dr. med. Michaela Glöckler
On a spiritual understanding of ADHD and dementia
This seminar group will concern itself with the question of understanding the
situation on the threshold in terms of an “incarnation and excarnation education”.
People suffering from dementia are prophets and signal bearers giving us signs and
indications that standing and maintaining one’s position at the threshold in this way,
taking ones orientation from the threshold, is precisely what is important today.
5. Birgit Lindemann, Dr. med. Christiane Bonhage
Dementia as a special path of excarnation
We intend to study the following questions: What tasks face dementia sufferers?
What abilities can they utilise? What tasks face the therapist? What abilities can he/
she develop in this context? What possibilities are offered by the arts? We hope for a
lively exchange of views between therapists from various arts, with participants with
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and without experience of dementia sufferers, with those who have an interest for
professional, personal or simply social reasons. Depending on the interests of participants,
we can also go deeper into questions relating to dealing with people with
dementia in terms of the understanding of the human being and medicine.
6. Heidi Wolf, Bernd Ruf
When nothing appears to help any longer…
Trauma-oriented intensive education for children and adolescents on the brink
of educational exclusion at the Parzival Centre Karlsruhe. For years it has been possible
to observe a steady rise in the numbers of children and adolescents who can no
longer cope in a group context and with whom schools no longer know what to do
as a result of their social behaviour. They provoke their social environment through
vandalism, crimes involving property, sex assaults as well as verbal and physical violence.
These children and adolescents are then deemed to be incapable of functioning
in groups and impossible to school. They are marginalised and finally excluded
from education altogether. An intensive educational concept was developed at the
Parzival Centre Karlsruhe in recent years which will be presented in this seminar.
Working groups
A. Advanced art therapy practice training
1. Christa Lambertus
Children without childhood
When children and adolescents grow up in a difficult family situation, such as for
example when one parent suffers from a serious psychiatric or physical illness,
they often live in an unsettled atmosphere. Separation anxiety, speechlessness
and frequently neglect characterise their everyday lives and make their start in life
more difficult. Trust in and being supported by parents is replaced by fear and worry
about their existence. These children often draw attention to themselves in school,
either because they become loud and disruptive or because they become very
quiet and fall into silence. At home they sometimes have to take responsibility for
the care of their parents and become “little adults” at much too early an age.
Such children often can no longer feel or assert their own needs, the foundation
on which they could come to expression has been pulled from under them and they
are deprived of their unburdened and happy childhood at an early stage.
How can such children be helped, supported and strengthened through art therapy
and given back part of their unburdened childhood for brief periods of time? In this
working group I will present case studies from my art therapy work with affected
children and adolescents. In the practical part we will try and put ourselves in the
experiential world of the child, perhaps also our own childhood, and will draw and
paint without inhibition with simple materials.
The focus of such work is, on the one hand, the artistic possibilities of the non-verbal
expression of the cause of speechlessness which is therefore “inexpressible” and, on
the other hand, the joyful playfully creative immersion in the protective realm of the
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imagination. This course is intended for painting therapists and art therapists of all
directions and is also open to all those who work with children and are interested in
the subject. (German)
2. Stefanie Trikojat-Klein
ADHD and dementia – challenge to our awareness?
Children with ADHD frequently display an impressive alertness with regard to
their environment which they frame in words or impulsive actions. The children
themselves give the impression of being troubled and sometimes sad as they do not
themselves understand their “mission” and feel out of place. Such a feeling of being
troubled about their “mission”, which appears to have been forgotten, can be experienced
not only in children but also in people suffering from dementia. In dealing with
both groups of people we are challenged to learn to understand their “mission” with
raised awareness. In this group we intend to look at questions related to music therapy
with regard to the themes of waking and dreaming, non-commitment and specific attention,
remembering and forgetting, and to engage in a practical exchange of views
with the help of case studies. Open to everyone who is interested.
3. Michael Ganss
Living with dementia
Dementia influences people and their social environment in many different ways.
As a consequence there are many change processes in this phase of life which must
be faced by the affected person and his or her social environment. Not infrequently,
periods occur when people are no longer able to cope which have a massively
destabilising effect, thus reinforcing the phenomenon of dementia.
What can the artistic therapies do to strengthen people with dementia and their
social environment so that they can accept a life with dementia as a phase which
is part of their life. That is a prerequisite for being able to perceive and utilise the
potentials which develop in dementia. The question arises for the person affected,
but also for his or her therapeutic support, as to the developmental task which
accompanies dementia. After all, dementia is also a phase of life which leads to the
threshold of life on earth. The working group will look conceptually and artistically
at how we can approach closer to the phenomenon of dementia and the potential
of the artistic therapies as an accompaniment through this phase of life, to discuss
the therapeutic possibilities and limits, and to enter into an exchange of views with
one another. All artistic therapies. (German)
4. Jutta Nöthiger
At the beginning and the end of life it is the breathing…
At the beginning and the end of life it is the breathing which connects human
beings with the world and releases them again. In his study of the human being,
Rudolf Steiner describes learning to “breathe” as one of the tasks for which human
beings need support through education. What is the situation at the end of life?
How do we accompany old and perhaps also dementing people out of life through
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breathing? What is the significance of memory in terms of language? What happens
when words, for example, have to be learnt “anew”? What is the importance in old
age of the speech gesture during childhood? Working style of the creative speech
working group: keynote presentation and guided collation of the experience
gathered by all participants in their work. Many practical exercises. Working group
for creative speech therapists and those interested in language. (German, max.
12 participants)
5. Sylvie Mouas-Boé, Cyr Boé, Dr Guillaume Lemonde
Quelles sont les images, couleurs, douleurs, dates qui nous permettent de
diagnostiquer un mal. être et de rechercher les ressources possibles.
Nous approfondirons les données vues lors des congrès précédents entre autre par
des exercices pratiques. Ce groupe, ouvert à tous, s’adresse à tous les thérapeutes
travaillant dans un cabinet ou en institution. Aucun pré-requis n’est nécessaire.
(French)
6. Helga Kirpicsenko
Painting, wonder, opening, enrichment, movement
Opportunities through therapeutic painting with people in old age. (German,
max. 16-20 participants)
7. Truus Vermeulen, Brenda Gerretsen
Light, colour and darkness in painting therapy developed by Liane Collot d‘Herbois
The transforming processes of the human being from the spiritual worlds into the
earthly world and from the earthly world to the spiritual worlds in relation to the
border colours magenta, emerald green and violet. We will paint on moist paper and
work on case studies. (Dutch, English)
8. Heidrun Revers
Music as “door opener” in dementia
In this working group I would like to pass on my many years of experience regarding
the instruments, musical means and forms with which we can reach people who
have fallen will with dementia. Connected with this is the question what we can
learn from them. No previous musical knowledge is required for this working group.
(German)
B. Advanced training in artistic practice
9. Andrea Klapproth, Susanne Gassler
Tri-tra-trallala, about the magic of moving puppets – puppetry, theatre exercises,
improvisation
Children cannot evade the magic of moving puppets. Their attention is completely
engaged by the events on the small stage. Through active participation in the
dialogue with the puppets they can follow a story for longer. If they join in behind
the scenes, many abilities are fostered. Their attention is engaged there too in a
different way and they can stay with a subject for longer. Open to all disciplines.
(German, 6-8 participants)
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10. Elke Dominik
Life in sound and light
Modelling/sculptural deepening. We will attempt to feel our way into the mysterious
process which takes place when life is transformed into sound and light. How
embryonic forces can develop in this process for what lies in the future. (German,
max. 15 participants)
11. Baiba Bertulsone-Aasheim
Exploring polarities in the context of young and old age
We will work artistically with the polarities of thinking and willing, antipathy and
sympathy, wakefulness and sleep, centre and periphery, active and passive, differentiating
and simplifying. Understanding and treating AD(H)D and dementia disorders
will be considered in particular with suggestions regarding phenomenology, similarities
and differences, indications and therapy. You are welcome to bring along your
own patients cases. Our artistic practice and group dialogue will hopefully open up
discussions on how do we support and maintain healthy processes of becoming,
connecting, growing up and ageing. Open mainly to participants of the departments
Painting and Clay Modelling. Participants from other disciplines are welcome,
but integrate their own. (Max group size: 20) (English)
12. Jacqueline Stoop, Eline Henselmans
Skipper, will you ferry me across the river?
An artistic programme about precious early life memories for elderly persons suffering
from senile dementia. Nursing homes voice an increasingly urgent demand
for supplementary care programmes for the growing group of elderly persons
suffering from senile dementia. The programme “Skipper will you ferry me across
the river?” offers an artistic and holistic answer revealing insight into human nature.
The workshop will consist of a presentation of the aims of the programme “Skipper
will you ferry me across the river?” and of the collaboration with art therapists (both
visual arts and music) in psychogeriatrics, and the workshop will include some short
experience exercises with images and music. It is precisely at the stage when the free
access to the own memory and linguistic competence of elderly persons fades away,
that this artistic care programme reveals and restores the dignity and the own identity
of the elderly person. The quality and the power of melody, harmony and rhythm
and of colour and shape and representation are deliberately being activated in order
to support vitality and to artistically attend to the mental wellbeing of the participants.
Precious life memories are woken, celebrated, sung, pictured and reintegrated.
It turns out that music and images offer an immediate opening to the individual
life experiences of the elderly person for a long time, and they can therefore contribute
to a renewed connection with the own past life of the individual elderly person
and to an alliance between the elderly persons with each other. The workshop will
be given in cooperation with a music therapist. Open for all disciplines. (English and
Dutch, 15–20 people)
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Thursday, 3 January Friday, 4 January Saturday, 5 5 January Sunday, 6 January
9.00-10.00
Musical prelude, Welcome
Presentation of the working
group leaders10.00-11.00
Lecture
Preventing ADHD and dementia
Dr. med. Michaela Glöckler
9.00-9.25
Artistically invigorated into the day!
Warm-up with hygienic exercises from
anthroposophic art therapy 9.30-10.45
Keynote presentation
Michael Ganss
Art therapist, gerontologist
Followed by plenary discussion
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9.00-9.25 9.00-9.25
Artistically invigorated into the day!
Warm-up with hygienic exercises exercises from
anthroposophic anthroposophic art therapy therapy 9.30-10.45
9.30-10.45
Podium Podium lecture
When children children behave badly… Intensive
education education for children and
adolescents incapable incapable of functioning
in groups. Bernd Bernd Ruf, Ruf, teacher, special
needs teacher; Heidi Heidi Wolf, art therapist
9.00-9.25
Artistically invigorated into into the day!
Warm-up Warm-up with with hygienic exercises exercises from
anthroposophic anthroposophic art art therapy therapy 9.30-10.45
10.00-11.15
Keynote presentation
Christa Lambertus
Art therapist
Followed by by plenary
discussion
10.45-11.30 COFFEE COFFEE BREAK (IN GOETHEANUMFOYER) 10.45-11.30 COFFEE COFFEE BREAK (IN GOETHEANUMFOYER) 10.45-11.30 COFFEE COFFEE BREAK (IN GOETHEANUMFOYER) 10.45-11.30 COFFEE BREAK (IN GOETHEANUMFOYER)
11.30-13.00
Interdisciplinary seminar groups:
1. Dr. med. Kaspar Jaggi,
Barbara Jaggi-Sidler
2. Dr. med. Michaela Glöckler
3. Jacques Meulman, Viola Heckel
4. Dr. med. Christiane Bonhage,
Birgit Lindenmann
5. Bernd Ruf, Heidi Wolf
6. Dagmar von Freytag-Loringhoven,
Dr. Jürgen Möller
11.30-13.00
Interdisciplinary seminar groups:
1. Dr. med. Kaspar Jaggi,
Barbara Jaggi-Sidler
2. Dr. med. Michaela Glöckler
3. Jacques Meulman, Viola Heckel
4. Dr. med. Christiane Bonhage,
Birgit Lindenmann
5. Bernd Ruf, Heidi Wolf
6. Dagmar von Freytag-Loringhoven,
Dr. Jürgen Möller
11.30-13.00
Interdisciplinary seminar groups:
1. Dr. Dr. med. Kaspar Kaspar Jaggi,
Barbara Jaggi-Sidler
2. Dr. med. Michaela Glöckler
3. Jacques Meulman, Viola Heckel
4. Dr. med. Christiane Bonhage,
Birgit Lindenmann
5. Bernd Ruf, Ruf, Heidi Wolf
6. Dagmar von Freytag-Loringhoven,
Dr. Jürgen Möller
13.00-15.00 LUNCH LUNCH BREAK 13.00-15.00 LUNCH BREAK 13.00-15.00 LUNCH BREAK BREAK
15.30-18.00
Working groups
15.30-18.00
Working groups
15.30-18.00
Working groups
18.00-20.00 Evening Break 18.00-20.00 Evening Break 18.00-20.00 Evening Break
20.00-21.30
20.00-21.30
20.00-21.30
Remembrance of the dead
Lecture
Project workshop
Lecture
How do we come to an
In the Carpentry Workshop
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understanding of ADHS and
Spiritual scientific aspects of life dementia? What can neurobiological
before birth and after death
findings contribute?
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Selg
Dr. med. Andreas Rothdach
Musical conclusion
Musical conclusion
11.45-12.30
11.45-12.30
Reports from the coordinators
and the
Medical Section
Kirstin Kirstin Kaiser
Dr. med. med. Michaela Glöckler
12.30-13.00
Conference review and 2014 preview
Musical conclusion
– Subject to alteration
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Our speakers
Baiba Bertulsone – Aasheim –
Studied in Latvia (University of Latvia
– Visual Art and Crafts Education),
Norway (Rudolf Steiner University
College – Waldorf Education) and
England (Tobias School of Art and
Art Therapy; Hiram Trust – Research
of Practical Skills Therapeutic
Education). She has worked with
children at schools in Latvia (Riga
English Grammar School, Adaži Free
Valdorfschool) and Norway (Haugesund
Rudolf Steiner School), and
with special needs adults in England
(anthroposophical centres „Nutley
Hall“ and „Pericles“). She has practiced
art therapy in England – Blackthorn
Medical Centre and Sweden – Jarna
Vidarkliniken. Currently she is building
up her own art therapy practice and
engaging in scientific research. She
holds workshops and participates as
external tutor at anthroposophical
doctors’ training and rhythmical
massage training in Latvia, and at
Tobias School of Art and Art Therapy
in England.
Sylvie Boé, Cyr Boé – Son parcours
professionnel qui l’a conduit à
travailler avec Mézières, Thérèse
Bertherat, S.Piret et MM.Béziers a
orienté son travail vers une exploration
du mouvement fondamental, juste
et coordonné.
Dr. med. Christiane Bonhage –
Born 1961 in Berlin, divorced, two
daughters aged 27 and 23. Training
as electrician (1980) and Abitur (university
entrance exam) (1982) at the
Hibernia School in Wanne-Eickel.
Medical studies and doctorate (1992)
while working as an academic assistant
in the neuroanatomy department of
Münster University. Clinical work in the
subjects of radiology, surgery, neurology,
internal geriatric medicine, rehabilitation
(spinal cord injuries and early rehabilitation),
intensive medicine, psychiatry;
specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy
(depth psychology), additional qualification
in psychotherapy (behavioural therapy
including group therapy). Graduate of
the anthroposophic medical seminars in
Filderstadt and Herdecke (now: Eugen
Kolisko Academy and BefAM). In anthroposophic
departments since 1997, currently
working in the neurological department
of the Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke
hospital. Lecturer at Witten/Herdecke
University. Member of the General
Anthroposophical Society, the Society
of Anthroposophic Doctors in Germany,
the German Society for Psychiatry and
Psychotherapy (DGPPN) and the multidisciplinary
working group for outpatients
with dementia (MAGDA).
Elke Dominik – has been working in
sculptural art therapy training and advanced
training since 1980 in Dornach/
Switzerland and Holland.
Susanne Gassler – Born 1953 in Rottenburg/Neckar.
After the Abitur (university
entrance exam) attended the Free Youth
Seminar in Stuttgart; training in creative
speech at the Goetheanum; advanced
training in speech therapy in Alfter;
approx. 18 years as creative speech artist
and therapist at the Ulm Free Waldorf
School, Römerstrasse. In between a
fifteen-year break to look after her family
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with husband and two daughters and
freelance artistic work. Five-year on-thejob
BuT (German Association of Theatre
Education) training as stage director and
drama teacher. Puppet performances for
children and adults in Waldorf schools
and the Christian Community.
Michael Ganss – Independent graduate
gerontologist, art therapist, art teacher
and artist; art therapy practice; carrying
out of artistic, intergenerational and art
therapy projects. Artistic and art therapy
support of people throughout the whole
course of dementia. Managing editor
of the magazine Demenz. Das Magazin;
freelance academic staff member of the
Institute of Art Therapy and Research at
Ottersberg College, head of the “Artistic
and aesthetic action when working with
the elderly” advanced training course at
Ottersberg College; lecturer at various
universities and colleges. Founding
member and deputy chair of Werkstatt
Demenz e.V. Various publications.
Brenda Gerretsen – Training as painting
therapist at the Emerald Foundation. Has
worked for 14 years with elderly people
in a nursing home in Den Haag.
Dr. med. Michaela Glöckler – Born 1946
in Stuttgart; Waldorf pupil; studied philosophy,
history, German and theology in
Freiburg and Heidelberg and medicine in
Tübingen and Marburg – accompanied
by continuing independent study of
anthroposophy. Specialist training as a
paediatrician at the Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus
Herdecke hospital and Bochum
University Clinic. Worked as a paediatrician
and Waldorf school doctor until 1988,
when she took over the leadership of
the Medical Section at the Goetheanum.
Numerous publications and lecturing
activity.
Viola Heckel – Studied music at Alanus
University of Arts and Social Sciences in
Bonn-Alfter, specialising in the recorder.
Studied music therapy at the Musiktherapeutische
Arbeitsstätte, Berlin, with Maria
Schüppel. Further training: non-medical
practitioner in psychotherapy, choirmaster,
singing therapy. Music therapist
and cultural organiser at the Friedrich
Husemann Clinic in Buchenbach for 20
years. Since 2009 music and singing
therapist at the Pestalozzi Children and
Youth Village in Stockach-Wahlwies as
well as therapeutic and artistic tasks in
the Freiburg area. Work as a lecturer at
home and abroad.
Eline Henselmans – is a teacher and
supervisor at the University of Applied
Sciences Leiden, member of the Art
Therapy in Care for the Elderly practice
field and also works as an art therapist
and coach. In coaching elderly persons
and people working with the elderly,
she chooses to work from the angle of
experience-driven care. “Creativity and
walking along with the other person
open new paths where old roads seem to
come to a stop.”
Dr. med. Kaspar H. Jaggi – General practitioner
and specialist in anthroposophic
medicine with own medical practice;
also scientific work of Weleda and trainer
of doctors, pharmacists, chemists and
therapists.
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Barbara Jaggi-Sidler – Special education
teacher, eurythmist, mother of two
grown-up daughters. Practical experience
in special education, social therapy,
artistic and hygienic eurythmy, singing
and in general medical practice.
Helga Kirpicsenko – Art therapist since
1983 with a break for independent
artistic work. Two daughters. Further
training: psychosynthesis and life and
social counselling. Work in Vienna at a
therapeutic centre, in a hospital (geriatric
remobilisation) and in a geriatric daycentre.
Holds seminars in Greece and
Chiemgau and continues to work as an
independent artist.
Andrea Klapproth – Speech artist/
speech therapist; trained as an actor,
director, creative speech artist and therapist
in Berlin, Zurich and Dornach, lives in
Zurich and works in Zurich and Lenzburg
in independent practice and at a school
for children and adolescents with behavioural
difficulties.
Christa Lambertus – Art and expressive
therapist, MA; born 1962; studied painting,
art therapy, eurythmy, psychotherapeutic
sciences and psychological counselling.
Own art therapy practice in Basel. Collaboration
with the Melchior Foundation
which supports children of parents with
psychiatric illnesses.
Dr. Guillaume Lemonde – Médecin
praticien, 1994 (France), Spécialisations
(formations approfondies et attestations
de formation complémentaire): Médecine
d‘orientation anthroposophique (ASMOA).
Birgit Lindemann – Studied art therapy
at Ottersberg College (dipl. in art therapy
1989). Advanced study of art therapy in
Berlin Weissensee (Master of Arts 2009).
Since 1989 art therapist at the Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus
Herdecke (GKH) in
various departments: paediatric and
adolescent psychiatry, internal medicine,
outpatient department; since 1991 adult
psychiatry: psychotherapeutic ward,
wards focussing on gerontopsychiatry,
addiction; gynaecology department;
additionally since 2009: psychiatric ward
for young adults. Since 2005 mentor for
students of the Clinical Anthroposophic
Art Therapy advanced training course at
the GKH in cooperation with Ottersberg
College; BVAKT and DFKGT member
(professional associations for art therapy);
two grown-up children.
Jacques Meulman – Born 1948. In private
practice as psychologist, anthroposophic
psychotherapist and biographical counsellor.
After many years of experience as
a Waldorf teacher and following training
as a biographical counsellor, went on to
study clinical psychology at university
and advanced training in anthroposophic
psychotherapy. This creates a range of
possibilities for working on developmental
and educational issues from an educational,
psychological and biographical
perspective.
Dr. med. Jürgen Möller – Born 1942,
doctor in the statutory health insurance
system in Hanover, child and adolescent
psychiatrist, paediatrician, anthroposophic
medicine, homoeopathy and trauma
counselling. Lecturing and seminar
activity at home and abroad. Twenty
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years as a school doctor in special needs
education. Co-editor of a book on hand
gesture games by Wilma Ellersiek.
Jutta Nöthiger – Born 1961. From 1982
study of social education in Mannheim
and Ludwigshafen (DE), traineeship and
work in anthroposophic drug therapy
at Sieben Zwerge on Lake Constance.
1989/90 Anthroposophic Studies Seminar
Stuttgart, followed until 1993 by
training in creative speech at the Dora
Gutbrod School, Dornach. After three
years of independent practice as a
speech therapist her two children were
born. After the death of her husband
she was able to keep her patient base
as well as bringing up her children.
Lecturing work at the HFHS Dornach
and at medical courses. In 2008 she took
the therapeutic year for creative speech
artists. Since then independent practice
as creative speech therapist, lecturer at
various institutions and courses.
Heidrun Revers – Born 1964 in Munich,
lives with her husband and four children
in Wuppertal. Study of anthroposophic
music therapy with Maria Schüppel, Berlin;
non-medical practitioner in psychotherapy.
Member of BVAKT; independent
music therapy practice in Wuppertal
and at the Krefeld Therapeutic Centre.
Music with (dementing) elderly people
in retirement homes, early-years musical
education in kindergartens.
Dr. med. Andreas Rothdach – Born 1969
in Munich. Waldorf pupil. After medical
studies research on “neurological movement
disorders” followed by advanced
training as a specialist for neurology,
psychiatry and psychotherapy in Munich,
Herdecke and Bonn, where most recently
as senior physician.
Bernd Ruf – Born 1954 in Karlsruhe.
Training as a secondary school teacher
in the subjects of German and history at
Mannheim University and as a special
needs teacher at Reutlingen Education
College; also as a Waldorf teacher at the
Freie Hochschule Stuttgart. Co-founder
of and 20 years of teaching at the Karlsruhe
Free Waldorf School. Co-founder
and since 2003 principal of the Parzival
competence centre for education, support
and counselling based on Rudolf
Steiner’s educational principles. 1993
to 2007 on the board of the German
Waldorf School Federation. 1993 to now
member of the International Conference
of Waldorf Schools. Since 1987 managing
director of the aid organisation Friends
of Waldorf Education focussing on
international voluntary services. Since
2006 development and leadership of
emergency education crisis intervention
missions in war and disaster zones.
Led missions in Lebanon, China, the
Gaza Strip, Indonesia, Haiti, Kyrgyzstan,
Japan and Kenya. Head of the outpatient
department for emergency education
at the Parzival competence centre in
Karlsruhe. Since 2007 on the advisory
board of the Federal Ministry of Economic
Cooperation and Development.
International lecturing activity.
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Selg – born 1963,
is director of the Ita Wegman Institute
for Basic Research into Anthroposophy
(Arlesheim) and professor of medical
anthropology and ethics at the Alanus
University of Arts and Social Sciences
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(Alfter near Bonn). He has published
numerous basic works on the life work of
Rudolf Steiner.
Jacquelin Stoop - is an artistic counsellor
and a teacher at the Faculty of Art
Therapy (visual arts programme) at the
University for Applied Sciences of Leiden,
member of the Art Therapy in the Care
for the Elderly practice field, trained in
methods for biographical reflection and
reminiscence at the Trimbos Institute, the
national centre of expertise on mental
health and addiction.
Stefanie Trikojat-Klein – Born 1965,
special needs teacher, trained as a music
therapist at the Musiktherapeutische
Arbeitsstätte Berlin. Specialist therapist
for creative trauma therapy; has worked
for 17 years with people in need of special
care in the Bingenheim Community,
followed by work in gerontopsychiatry
with people suffering from dementia;
has worked since 2005 in a paediatric
and adolescent psychiatric practice in
Hamburg.
Heidi Wolf – Born in 1954, teacher and
art therapist since 1995; nine years of
freelance work at the Livorno Therapeutic
Centre in Italy; has worked since 2006 at
the Parzival Centre Karlsruhe as an art
therapist.
Truus Vermeulen – My name is Truus
Vermeulen, I did the training for painting
therapist at the Emerald Foundation
and have been working as a painting
therapist mainly with children at a
Waldorf school for 10 years.
Dagmar von Freytag-Loringhoven – Born
1953, art therapist, MA, BVAKT/DFKGT.
Biography work, therapy teacher and
supervisor. Since 1992 in rehabilitative
adolescent psychiatry (Reha und Jugendhilfe
Gutenhalde, Filderstadt) as art therapist.
Since 1992, parallel work as lecturer
at the Free Nursing School at the Filderklinik
and various art therapy training
centres. Offers individual counselling and
case supervision for art therapists.
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15th International Study Days for Anthroposophic Art Therapy
For art therapists, art therapy students in their final year, physicians,
medical students, psychotherapists and teachers
At the limits of biography. Art therapy in the context of ADHD and dementia
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15th International Study Days for Anthroposophic Art Therapy
For art therapists, art therapy students in their final year, physicians,
medical students, psychotherapists and teachers
At the limits of biography. Art therapy in the context of ADHD and dementia
International annual conference of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum
from Thursday, 3 to Sunday, 6 January 2013
Booking closes: Thursday, 20 December 2012
Conference fees: regular price: CHF 190 with meals: CHF 322
concessions**: CHF 95 with meals: CHF 227
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Conference meals include 3x lunch and 3x evening meal. Breakfast (3x) can be booked seperately
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