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** we experienced technical difficulties reocrding this eposide, a big thank you to Jennifer for persisting and sharing her insights with us ** Jennifer Naa Ayorkor Koney is an Art Therapist, educationist, and researcher with nearly eight years of experience working with children with special needs, survivors of trafficking and vulnerable populations in Ghana. She holds an MPhil in Art Education, with a research focused on children rescued from trafficking in the fishing industry on Volta Lake in Ghana and an MSc in Creative Art Therapy, which focused on engaging young women affected by sex trafficking and street life in Kumasi. Her research and practice emphasize trauma-sensitive care, educational, special needs care and therapeutic interventions, and strategies to support the emotional and psychological recovery of survivors of trafficking, and children with special needs particularly through improving attention and executive functioning. Jennifer is married to an amazing husband, who is a medical doctor in Ghana. They are blessed three beautiful children. Please email Jennifer with any further questions or interest to collaborate: jenikoney@gmail.com

Dr Jessica Collier (she/her) has practiced as an NHS art psychotherapist with violent offenders in prisons, secure hospitals and a modified forensic therapeutic community. She currently leads a team developing arts psychotherapies services for women and men in prison. Jessica is co-convenor of the Forensic Arts Therapies Advisory Group, and formerly a council member of the British Association of Art Therapists and the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapists. Jessica has presented her work at conferences nationally and internationally. She lectures on postgraduate arts psychotherapy and forensic psychotherapy programmes and and is a visiting fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was the inaugural co-editor in chief of the International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy and has published widely including co-editing the book Intersectionality and Art Psychotherapies. Jessica's PhD considered the interdisciplinary dialogue between feminist criminology and art psychotherapy as a means of understanding gendered identities in prison and she remains passionate about working with criminalised women. Jessica also has a private practice providing clinical supervision and reflective practice to psychological professionals and teams working with complex forensic patients across prisons, secure hospitals and community settings. In addition, Jessica has an interest in Social Dreaming and has trained with the Social Dreaming International Network. https://uk.jkp.com/products/intersectionality-in-the-arts-psychotherapies

Dr. Savneet Talwar (she/ her) is a Chicago based American Studies scholar, fiber artist, educator, art therapist and somatic coach. She is currently a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the art therapy and fiber and material studies departments. Her art and therapeutic practice is informed by her doctoral training in anti-oppressive frameworks, social justice and intersectional feminism. She strives to embrace abolitionist concepts to enhance her art practice and pedagogy.  As an interdisciplinary fiber and feminist artist, her work exists at the intersection of archives, memory, language, feminist politics and questions of resistance. She is interested in the contradictions of feminist and archival matters – what and who is worthy of being a subject of discourse? What colonial narratives and images continue to define matters of the global south?  Talwar has initiated various community based projects such as the Wandering Uterus Project; the CEW (Creatively Empowered Women) Design Studio and most recently the Mending Lab, a pop up art studio to facilitate conversation on the role of repair in communities.  She is also a member of the P O Box Collective, a social practice space in Rogers Park, Chicago. She is the author of Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersections and has published numerous articles in national and international journals on ethics of care, intersectional feminism, feminist pedagogy, the politics of crafting, culture and identity, ethics, law and cultural competence and trauma informed art therapy. https://www.savneettalwar.com/ Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersection Publications List - Copies of articles can be access on Research Gate

Jordan S. Potash, PhD, ATR-BC, REAT, LPAT (DC), LCPAT (MD) is a registered, board certified, and licensed art therapist, as well as, registered expressive arts therapist (USA). He is Associate Professor in the Art Therapy Graduate Program at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. As an art therapist for 25 years, Potash has worked with clients of all ages in many settings including schools, clinics, and community art studios. He works with organizations in Washington DC focused on youth experiencing homelessness and grief. His primarily interests are in the applications of art and art therapy in the service of community development, social change, and peacebuilding. Potash has authored several articles and book chapters as well as presented at conferences, universities, and communities in the U.S., U.K., Hong Kong, and Israel. Potash supports the art therapy profession as Editor in Chief of Art Therapy (2019-2024) and lead advocate for the passage and implementation of the DC Professional Art Therapist Licensure Amendment Act. ⁠www.jordanpotash.com⁠

Megan is licensed by the counseling boards in the U.S. states of Arizona, Indiana, and Texas, and she also holds board certification status through the Art Therapy Credentials Board. She has served on professional boards and committees at local, regional, and national levels within the U.S. Her career includes clinical work in behavioral health, correctional, educational, medical, and social services settings, and she now draws upon these experiences in her online private practice. She earned her master’s degree in art therapy with a specialization in grief and medical counseling from the University of Louisville, where she studied under Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) co-creators, Drs. Vija Lusebrink and Sandra (Kagin) Graves-Alcorn. These art therapy pioneers trained her in their ahead-of-its-time, nervous system-oriented, outcome-informed framework as a basis for assessment, treatment planning, intervention, progress monitoring, and case conceptualization. Megan enjoys sharing information about the ETC per the ideas and intentions of her professors. She is cultivating a community of ETC enthusiasts and provides ETC supervision as well as live webinars to help others develop appreciation for both the basics and the nuances of this important framework. www.meganvanmeter.com

Cornelia Elbrecht BA. MA. (Art Ed), AThR, SEP, has more than 40 years of experience as an art therapist. She is also a Somatic Experiencing trauma therapist (SEP). She is the director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy. She has studied Expressive Arts Therapies at the School for Initiatic Art Therapy in Germany, also Jungian and Gestalt therapy, Bioenergetics and bodywork. She is founder and director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy, School for Initiatic Art Therapy. She has lectured in Art Therapy at RMIT, Melbourne. Cornelia is a registered professional member and accredited supervisor of ANZACATA, the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Art Therapy Association and IEATA International Expressive Arts Therapies Association. Cornelia gives courses and individual sessions internationally, throughout Australia and in private practice at Claerwen Retreat in Apollo Bay, Australia. www.sensorimotorarttherapy.com

Juliet L. King, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, LMHC, is an Associate Professor of Art Therapy at The George Washington University and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology at Indiana University School of Medicine. With over two decades of experience as a clinician, educator, and administrator, Dr. King's research focuses on the integration of art therapy and neuroscience, making the science of therapeutic arts accessible and adaptable to diverse sociocultural contexts. Her PhD in Translational Health Sciences culminated in the development and testing of a neuroscience-informed art therapy toolkit designed for the treatment of psychological trauma. She is the author and editor of Art Therapy, Neuroscience, and Trauma: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives, with the second edition published in 2024. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003348207/art-therapy-neuroscience-trauma-juliet-king-christianne-strang

Catherine Hyland Moon (she/her/hers) is Professor Emerit, Department of Art Therapy and Counseling, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Author of Studio Art Therapy: Cultivating the Artist Identity in the Art Therapist and contributing editor of Materials and Media in Art Therapy: Critical Understandings of Diverse Artistic Vocabularies, she has worked in varied settings, including a psychiatric hospital, home-based behavioral healthcare, and a studio-based private practice. Her current art therapy work is focused on co-leading cross-cultural therapeutic arts training programs in East Africa through Global Alliance for Africa and co- facilitating a free community art studio in the U.S. aimed at cultivating collective care across social differences. Her professional publications and presentations in art therapy have focused on the unique contributions of an art-based perspective in therapeutic practice, community- based art studios as public healthcare, the ethics of art therapy in international collaboration and exchange, and intersectional, socially just approaches to care within art therapy praxis and organizational structures. Her current artmaking centers around assembling and repurposing strategies, whether through text-based works, collage, painted assemblages, found object constructions, or fiber-based creations.

Dr Emma van Daal is an infant mental health consultant and researcher, child psychotherapist, and arts therapist working in private practice and community organisations for the past 18 years. Her passion is early intervention of early life trauma incorporating the arts to nurture attachment and promote healing, having presented internationally and nationally on this work. She is currently establishing the Centre for Infant Wellbeing with a focus on consultation, supervision, research, and training in creative, playful, and relational approaches as a vital component of perinatal and infant mental health. Emma's recent publications include mapping the materiality of lived experiencing arguing to (re)conceptualise well-being, trauma, and mental health within a relational, post-humanist, and multimodal ontology that strongly informs her practice, writing, and research.  She enjoys and seeks interdisciplinary collaborations that innovate new ways of doing “intervention” as well as weaving in time for illustration/art-making nurture her own artistic passions. www.theplaystudio.com.au https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emma-Van-Daal

Lisa D. Hinz, Ph.D., ATR-BC is a licensed clinical psychologist and board certified art therapist. She is an associate professor and director of the Art Therapy Psychology Doctoral Program at Dominican University of California. Dr. Hinz is the author of many professional publications and three books on art therapy. The second edition of her book, Expressive Therapies Continuum: A Framework for Using Art in Therapy was released in January 2020 and builds upon her interest in materials and methods in art therapy. Dr. Hinz specializes in the treatment of eating issues, substance abuse, and lifestyle medicine; she maintains a private practice in St. Helena, California. Lisa.Hinz@dominican.edu

David E. Gussak, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM is Professor for the Florida State University’s Graduate Art Therapy Program and Founder/Program Consultant for the FSU/FL Dept of Correction’s Art Therapy in Prisons program. He served as the  chairperson for the FSU Department of Art Education in which the art therapy program is housed from 2008-2018. He has presented and published extensively internationally and nationally on forensic art therapy and art therapy in forensic settings. These include, among others, Art on Trial: Art Therapy for Capital Murder Cases (2013), Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity (2019), The Frenzied Dance of Art and Violence (2022) and The Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy (Co-editor with Marcia Rosal; 2016).  In 2022, Dr. Gussak was granted the American Art Therapy Association’s Honorary Lifetime Member (HLM) award. The Frenzied Dance of Art and Violence, by David E Gussak

Pat B. Allen, Ph.D., A.T.R., is an author, artist, art therapist, and teacher who connects to the Creative Source through art and writing. Her two books - Art Is a Way of Knowing (Shambhala 1995) and Art Is a Spiritual Path (Shambhala 2005) - explore the borders between art, psychology, spirituality, and social action, as well as a novel, Cronation.  Her artwork has been exhibited in a wide variety of juried and invited exhibits. Pat has worked in a wide range of settings over a long clinical career and in 1995, along with two former students, she founded the Open Studio Project in Chicago, IL. OSP became a laboratory to "wrestle art therapy to the ground" and explore what is the healing nature of art, actually? From this deep personal and communal inquiry emerged the Open Studio Process, an art and writing process that Pat has shared with thousands of folks worldwide. Currently, Pat is senior faculty at the Jewish Studio Project, a non-profit organization that was founded by her daughter, Rabbi Adina Allen. Adina has taken the work powerfully into the Jewish world and together with an amazing team of folks Pat and Adina are training others to iterate this powerful creative process in new settings. Adina’s new book The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom is now available for pre-order. www.patballen.com www.jewishstudioproject.org www.cronation.org

Marian Liebmann has worked in art therapy with offenders, with women’s groups and community groups, and for 19 years in the Inner City Support and Recovery Team (adult mental health), where she developed work on anger issues. She teaches and lectures on art therapy at several universities in the UK and Ireland. She has run art therapy workshops in several European countries, as well as the US and Africa. She also works in restorative justice, mediation and conflict resolution. She has written or edited 14 books, including Art Therapy in Practice, Art Therapy with Offenders, Arts Approaches to Conflict, Restorative Justice: How It Works, Art Therapy and Anger and Arts Therapies and Sexual Offending. In 2010 she obtained her PhD by publications and in 2013 she was awarded OBE for services to art therapy and mediation. marian@liebmann.org.uk

Judith A. Rubin, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM is a licensed psychologist, child and adult psychoanalyst, and board-certified art therapist. A past President and Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association, she has written six books and created thirteen films. For three years in the sixties she was the Art Lady on the PBS children’s program, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” Now retired from clinical practice and regular teaching, she served for forty years on the faculties of the Psychiatry Department at the University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. She also presented and taught at many universities and conferences in the U.S. and abroad. President and co-founder of Expressive Media, she launched an online Training Film Library in the expressive therapies. In 2024, the film library was acquired by Psychotherapy.net, a video streaming platform serving a range of mental health professionals. Judy is currently engaged in two unfinished EMI projects: an International Film Festival on the Arts in Healing and a film provisionally entitled “The Many Faces of the Creative Arts Therapies,” in process of being created. expressivemedia.org Arts In Healing International Film Festival

Patricia is the past Co-ordinator of the Master of Art Therapy in the Department of Public Health. For over a decade she worked in the public mental health sector in psychiatric rehabilitation with a specialization in residential services, group work, and group supervision. Patricia studied art therapy in Melbourne and Berlin and has worked with diverse populations. Initially an art teacher in secondary schools, she has also worked as a freelance community artist in Europe and Australia. Patricia has research interests in both art therapy and the arts and health. Her research is focused largely on the role of art making and art therapy on the psychosocial impacts of health conditions and their treatment. Current and past research projects and publications include art making and mental health recovery, art therapy and cancer care, and the needs of carers of people living with cancer. Patricia embraces the perspective that art can play a variety of roles in health care with individuals, groups, and communities. In her role as Adjunct Associate Professor Patricia supervises HDR student’s research projects and continues to publish from her own research activities. LinkedIn Email --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fat-moon/message

Drew Bird, U.K. has been a Dramatherapist for over twenty years. He was senior lecturer on the MA in Dramatherapy at the University of Derby for fifteen years before becoming Associate Professor and Head of Creative Arts Therapies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He was editor of the Dramatherapy Journal from September 2020 to March 2023. He is the author of 15 publications and editorials. Recent research interests and publications have focussed on heuristic inquiry and arts-based research. He is in the process of completing an a/ r/tographic informed novel and developing performative informed research in clowning and the art of facilitation.   He presents at conferences internationally. His background is in working with children and young people who have experienced trauma and adult mental health and is currently doing community work in private practice. Associate Professor Drew Bird, PhD (He/Him/They/Them) Head of Creative Arts Therapies Drama Therapy Lead Victorian College of the Arts  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fat-moon/message

Moon Mail - Monthly Newsletter Collective Calm: well-being sessions for Therapists (May) Creative Connection: online peer support container Kate Dempsey is the CEO of ANZACATA. She has been in the position for just on 5 years. The work has grown from 2 days a week to 4 days a week in that time. She was chosen for the role because she has significant experience as a change management and leadership development consultant and has worked with not-for-profit associations and enterprises for over 20 years. She is also an academic, teaching in MBA and other business related post graduate programs at Deakin University. She is also a business coach. She has post graduate qualifications in organisational psychology and a PhD in leadership. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fat-moon/message

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Jade Chung is an Integrative Trauma Practitioner, Art Therapist, and Intuitive Healer.  Currently based in Vancouver, she works with women who are looking to really expand their lives to more, to extraordinary. Infusing art therapy with trauma-informed somatic therapies, energetics and spirituality, she believes that therapy and healing really is the most effective when understood through the mind, body, and soul. Jade offers a range of group programs and mentorship containers online, and workshops occasionally in-person in Vancouver. Instagram Website Podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fat-moon/message

Florencia Olavarría, currently works as a Nurse and Art Therapist in a psychosocial rehabilitation mental health center in Santiago, Chile. She is studying a specialization in Somatosensory Art Therapy, with a focus on recovery and healing from Trauma and PTSD, and is also beginning the certification to be a Somatic Experiencing practitioner, certified by the trauma specialist institute in the USA, by Peter Levine. @psicoarte_trauma --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fat-moon/message