The Community Table -adaptive art therapy from crisis intervention to community resilience

26isfam021 10.3205/26isfam021 urn:nbn:de:0183-26isfam0213 Meeting Abstract The Community Table -adaptive art therapy from crisis intervention to community resilience Press Press Naomi N

Art Refuge Canopy / Art Refuge

author France France Kate K

Art Refuge Canopy / Art Refuge

author German Medical Science GMS Publishing House

Düsseldorf

610 20260612 engl This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Dieser Artikel ist ein Open-Access-Artikel und steht unter den Lizenzbedingungen der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (Namensnennung). M0652 021 International Society for Arts and Medicine The Healing Arts – Forging Alliances of Arts & Medicine Workshop Abstracts Berlin 20260618 20260620 26isfam021 TextThe work of Art Refuge (UK registered charity: 1114353) and the Paris based extension, Art Refuge Canopy (association: RNA W751280610), supports the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of people displaced due to conflict, persecution, poverty and climate emergency.Since 2015 our work sits across a number of contexts in Europe focused on people who are still in transit or waiting to claim asylum. We are small and mobile teams of artists and art therapists, with practitioners from a range of fields and diverse backgrounds, Artists with lived experience of displacement are integral to our teams across all our programmes.Our work takes place in many settings; From the makeshift camps in northern France where we work in indoor and outdoor settings with our partners Médecins du Monde and Secours Catholique, to day centres and specialist psychological support services in Paris with the same partners. In the UK we work in the government run asylum camps and hotels where people are housed whilst waiting to have their asylum applications processed. All of these settings constitute ongoing crisis contexts for the people who exist in them.Across all the different settings, we run long term programmes using a psychosocial and trauma informed group-work model of adapted art therapy practice we have developed as a team called “The Community Table”. Here we will present what form this adaptive model of practice takes in our Paris programme, where we straddle interventions in crisis settings to collective resilience building in a community garden. 0 0 0 0