Eha Rüütel is the initiator of the Arts Therapies curriculum at Tallinn University, a founding member and honorary member of the Estonian Creative Arts Therapies Association. She is a solution-focused psychotherapist, creative arts therapist (art therapy), supervisor. She currently works as a distinguished professor at Tallinn University. In private practice, she mainly works with clients who have mental health, self-definition and relationship problems and difficulties in coping with life events.
Mari Mägi is a dancer, performer, choreographer (BA), Body-Mind Centering® teacher, Program Director of the BMC® Somatic Movement Education Program Somaatikum, and Dance Movement Therapist (MSc), teaching at Tallinn University as a guest lecturer. All these different aspects of self/body awareness through movement meet in the layering continuum of her curiosity towards different healthy ways of relating to oneself and others.
Abstract of workshop:
A solution-focused approach in creative arts therapy
The arts therapies curriculum of Tallinn University is based on the salutogenic (health factors) therapeutic approach. In this regard, we pay attention to the connections between creativity, health and behavior. In addition to treatment, we consider health promotion and prevention activities to be important. Therefore, we consider the application of creative arts therapy at five levels - diagnostic, psychotherapeutic, functional, recreational, palliative – which can be combined if necessary. Determining the level of intervention helps to set clear goals.
In the workshop, we will explain the concept of solution-focused creative arts therapy and its applications in art therapy and dance and movement therapy.