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We are the UK professional membership body for art therapists. Instagram: www.instagram.com/baat_org/
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28/08/2026

Just added: new sessions at our annual conference 2026 ✨️
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This year’s conference explores how art therapy helps support healthcare professionals at risk of burnout⁠, community cohesion and wellbeing⁠ and individuals recovering from trauma⁠.
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On top of our keynote presentations, we're very excited to announce new sessions taking place throughout the day, with facilitators including:

👉️ Sharon Herriot
👉️ Dr Deirdre Simmen McConnell
👉️ Sarah Furneaux-Blick
👉️ Tamsin Welldon
👉️ Tessa Taylor
👉️ Zachary D. Van Den Berg & Jessie Holder

Sessions and presentations previously announced with: Julia Cort, Val Huet, Thahmina Begum, Megan Tjasink, Daisy Fancourt and Karen Vost
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Find out more and book on our website: https://baat.org/event/annual-conference-2026-sustaining-care-in-person-ticket/
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27/08/2026

🎓 Just under two weeks left to apply to our Art Therapy Supervision Diploma starting in March 2027, final deadline 6 September 2026.
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➡️ Swipe to read how the programme has supported Yvonne and Miranda in their careers ⁠
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The course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills required to provide effective, inspiring, ethical, and art-based supervision. ⁠
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We will be running this course every other year. If you don't enrol this year, the next opportunity will be in Autumn 2028.⁠
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🔗 Find out more and apply: https://baat.org/event/art-therapy-supervision-diploma-3/
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26/08/2026

by Anit Kaur, based in Singapore⁠
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'What I Kept for Myself' | Acrylic and mixed media on canvas | 2023⁠
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"Created during a period when my sense of privacy, personal boundaries and psychological safety had been profoundly disrupted, this work explores the internal experience of exposure and the process of reclaiming a protected inner world.⁠
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The painting developed intuitively, with the flowing marks becoming a form of release when words felt insufficient. The pearl-like forms reference the way a pearl develops in response to an unwanted irritant, surrounding the intrusion with protective layers. They became a metaphor for the psyche’s capacity to respond to disruption through protection, adaptation and transformation.⁠
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Throughout the work, boundaries between interior and exterior, body and landscape, containment and movement become blurred. The womb-like negative spaces suggest protection, holding and rebirth, while the surrounding currents carry both turbulence and movement forward.⁠
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At its centre, the work considers what happens internally when our boundaries are disrupted and the gradual process of restoring safety, agency and ownership of one’s inner world. The act of painting itself became part of that process: intuitive, embodied and without the need to explain everything in words."⁠
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🔗 Find out how to submit your artwork: https://baat.org/galleries/art-therapists-art/

25/08/2026

Bridging the gaps in art therapy: materials, relationships, and becoming in practice

In her first editorial as Editor-in-Chief Designate for our academic journal the International Journal of Art Therapy, Kim Valldejuli reflects on what it means to take on this role, and on the importance of creating space for different voices, perspectives and ways of knowing.

As she writes, an editorial role is 'less a seat of authority than a place to hold space for many ways of knowing to meet.'

In this new issue, she introduces six papers exploring connection across materials, relationships, cultures, clinical practice and professional identity, while also sharing her hopes for the journal’s future.

Read more: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17454832.2026.2716455

🎨 Picture: Rebirth (16 × 20, mixed media on canvas) by Kim Valldejuli (2020)

24/08/2026

Just added: new sessions at our annual conference 2026 ✨️
⁠
This year’s conference explores how art therapy helps support healthcare professionals at risk of burnout⁠, community cohesion and wellbeing⁠ and individuals recovering from trauma⁠.
⁠
On top of our keynote presentations, we're very excited to announce new sessions taking place throughout the day, with facilitators including:

👉️ Sharon Herriot
👉️ Dr Deirdre Simmen McConnell
👉️ Sarah Furneaux-Blick
👉️ Tamsin Welldon
👉️ Tessa Taylor
👉️ Zachary D. Van Den Berg & Jessie Holder

And previously announced: Julia Cort, Val Huet, Thahmina Begum & Megan Tjasink
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Find out more and book on our website: https://baat.org/event/annual-conference-2026-sustaining-care-in-person-ticket/
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20/08/2026

Beach Life: Bring the beach to you through watercolour painting and drawing... 🏖️

Activity from the summer section of the Cultivating Creativity Calendar, a seasonal creative guide for 11–18-year-olds.

Find out more on our website: https://baat.org/publications/cultivating-creativity-calendar/summer/

📸 Courtesy of Jess Baum, 2025

19/08/2026

"I value the in-depth conversations with clients about their artwork, seeing how the creative process helps them connect with themselves and find motivation. The tiny changes that clients make are what it is all about."⁠
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Art therapist Jack Carberry-Todd tells us about his work in an NHS community mental health rehabilitation team. ⁠
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🔗 Read the full article in our NHS special edition of InSight: https://baat.org/publications/insight/summer-2026-nhs-special/art-therapist-in-an-nhs-community-rehabilitation-team/
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18/08/2026

What happens after cancer treatment, when the appointments fade but the emotional and identity challenges remain?

A new study from our academic journal, the International Journal of Art Therapy, by Roni Israeli and Johanna Czamanski-Cohen explores this through nine months of open-studio art therapy, with 16 women living with cancer survivorship.

The study introduces:

🎨 Oncological Chaos: the nonlinear and disruptive experience of life after cancer.

👁️ The Ecology of Witnessing: how self-witnessing, being witnessed by others, and artwork itself can help people express, organise and make meaning of experiences that can be difficult to put into words.

The findings highlight the potential of long-term art therapy to support emotional regulation, identity reconstruction, connection and meaning-making beyond cancer treatment.

Read more: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17454832.2026.2714303

17/08/2026

🎓 There's still time to apply to our Art Therapy Supervision Diploma starting in March 2027, final deadline to apply 6 September.

The course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills required to provide effective, inspiring, ethical, and art-based supervision.

We will be running this course every other year. If you don't enrol this year, the next opportunity will be in Autumn 2028.

🔗 Find out more and apply: https://baat.org/event/art-therapy-supervision-diploma-3/

14/08/2026

by Dr Peter Hughes ⁠
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'Eclipse UK' | acrylic on canvas | August 2026⁠
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"I painted this in my garden in Lancashire yesterday during the magnificent event. It was a special time to reflect on our world, to think about our journey. Producing art gives me focus, allowing to blank out negativity.⁠ It was a memorable experience which inspired me to paint..."⁠
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Anyone else feel like the eclipse sparked their creativity? We'd love to see your work. ⁠
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🔗 Find out how to submit your artwork: https://baat.org/galleries/about/

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Tuesday	8am - 4pm
Wednesday	8am - 4pm
Thursday	8am - 4pm
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