Who We Are The Arab Board for Arts and Health (ABAH) is an innovative milestone initiative, protected under registered Intellectual ...
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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Featured Articles
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, […]
November 15, 2021
IACAET WEBINAR GUIDE: PRESENTER EDITION
If you are interested in presenting at IACAET webinars, please refer to the following documents
August 25, 2020
PHYSICAL CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN THE EAST AND WEST
An Arts Based Inquiry into the Cross-Cultural Emotional Climate during a Time of Political
July 24, 2020
“TEARS ON FLOWERS”: WORLDWIDE NATURAL ART HEALING
Shaun McNiff, Lesley University “There are tears on the flowers, who feel the times.” Du Fu
November 15, 2021
IACAET WEBINAR GUIDE: PRESENTER EDITION
If you are interested in presenting at IACAET webinars, please refer to the following documents
Training Programs & Courses
DANCE MOVEMENT THERAPY (BELGIUM)
Dance and movement therapy belongs to body-oriented psychotherapy. This specialized form helps you to become aware of your body, your blockages and the way in which your personality…
DANCE THERAPY (CHINA)
Inspirees Institute offers the dance therapy certificate program which is in compliance with the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) alternate route training guideline…
2026-06-04
ARAB BOARD FOR ARTS AND HEALTH (ABAH)
Who We Are The Arab Board for Arts and Health (ABAH) is an innovative milestone initiative, protected under registered Intellectual Property No. 24892024 by the Ministry of Economy in the United Arab Emirates. ABAH operates under the official umbrella of Global Vision Quality & Sustainability Consulting (Licensed in Abu Dhabi under No. 5132488) and its […]
2025-10-16
Zoe School for Dance Movement Therapy (Switzerland)
”Where evidence meets embodiment: A training course in Dance Movement Therapy that transforms your movement inquiry into experience knowledge and application.” Training Porgram Formats: 8 Semester leading to the Higher Swiss Federal Diploma Several subject specific trainings from 60 to 300hrs 36 courses to choose from 2 to 15 days Please see website: www.zoeschool.ch
IACAET Organizational Members
