The Arts Psychotherapies Association (SPD) aims to contribute to the use of creative arts, considered a powerful tool for physical, mental, and ...
CONNECTION & COLLABORATION
Advancing Creativity and Arts in Human Development
INTEGRATION OF BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Empowering Individuals and Society with Arts and Sciences
Mission and Vision
The International Association for Creative Arts in Education and Therapy (IACAET) is a professional association with a global orientation and scope. IACAET promotes discourse and the development of creative arts in wide range of fields including education, therapy, healthcare and wellness, performing arts and other allied professions.
IACAET believes the aesthetic and creative use of the arts, together with practices promoting body-mind-spirit integration in a holistic and humanistic approach, is essential for individual and collective well-being, social change, the advancement of humanity and the sustainable development of societies and nature.
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2026-05-30
An Embodied Exploration of Authentic Movement from an Eastern Perspective
Liu Xin Chengdu Sport University, China This article is grounded in the perspective of “harmony” and the tradition of “embodying the Dao” from classical Chinese philosophy and integrated with phenomenological body theory. It explores the intrinsic alignment between the traditional life cultivation theory of “imbibing the great harmony”1 and modern embodied cognition theory, supported by practical […]
2025-07-03
Art Encircles Life: Journeying With, In, and Through the Expressive Arts
Vivien Speiser; Phillip Speiser Lesley University, USA; University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa This article presents the work of two expressive arts therapists who traveled and taught around the world between February and April 2024. Our journey actually started on October 7, 2023, when we were supposed to start teaching in Israel, and instead found […]
2023-11-30
“Tears on Flowers”: Worldwide Natural Art Healing
Shaun McNiff, Lesley University “There are tears on the flowers, who feel the times.” Du Fu (712–770), Spring Scene, circa 757 “Tears on the Flowers”: Worldwide Natural Experiments of Art Healing (The full article is published on CAET 6(1), 2020, summer issue) Pándēmos—Common to All People When Tony Zhou initiated the idea of a […]
2023-11-30
Virus — On the Edge of Art & Science, Human Beings & Nature
Virus — On the Edge of Art & Science, Human Beings & Nature With the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic in China and spreading out to the world, the public and academics have been discussing the attack of this “new type” of virus on human species and how we can react at biological, social, […]
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