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This interdisciplinary 2-hour workshop is led by three experienced creative arts therapists – two dance/movement therapists and one music therapist with a professional background in both music and dance.

Grounded in clinical and artistic practice, scientific inquiry, and arts-based research, the workshop invites participants to explore how aesthetic, embodied, and nonverbal interventions can support care and therapeutic processes across the lifespan.

Participants will engage through sensory and embodied experiences, observation, and reflective attention, gaining insight into the mechanisms that shape these interventions.

Particular emphasis will be placed on how structured, adaptable, and replicable intervention frameworks can be implemented across settings while remaining responsive to individual needs.

The workshop highlights how arts-based practices foster attunement, (co-)regulation, and connectivity through sound, movement, rhythm, creation, and meaning-making beyond words. Clinical examples will be drawn from diverse contexts, including perinatal and neonatal care, adult psychiatry, neurodiversity, and end-of-life processes.

In doing so, we align with ISfAM’s mission to cultivate sustainable alliances between the arts and medicine and to strengthen dialogue between artistic, neuroscientific, and clinical perspectives.