Fr, 28.11.2025 10.00 - 18.00 Uhr & Sa, 29.11.2025 09.45 - 18.30 Uhr

Connect - Stabilize - Observe and Design

We are currently experiencing profound changes and challenges – globally, nationally, and in our personal and professional lives. Art therapy is particularly important in times of crisis as an anchor and a space for inner stabilization. A common language is not always available, and people in a wide variety of stressful situations do not always find words to describe their experiences. All these people have a need to be understood. This can be made possible in a protected therapeutic setting – with or without words. The external space available can become a playground, a safe space, a resonance chamber, or a space of possibility, helping to create distance, find new things, and open up the chance to try new ways of acting. The extent to which museums can be included as networking, preserving, participatory, and cultural spaces will also be a topic of the conference.  Within the framework of the conference, we want to use the museum space as a forum to create networks and expand venues for art therapy.

The conference is being held in cooperation with the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg (KH), Sigmund Freud Private University Berlin (SFU), the German Society for Artistic Therapy Forms (DGKT), and the German Section of the International Society for Art, Design, and Therapy (IGKGT).

The event will be conducted in German.

You can find the complete conference program here.

conference chair

Prof. Dr. habil. Georg Franzen
Head of the Department of Psychotherapy Science at SFU Berlin, Professor of Psychotherapy & Art Psychology, Head of SFU University Course MA (CE) Clinical Art Therapy, 1st Chairman of DGKT and Art Therapy Institute with representative office in the capital

Prof. Dr. phil habil. Ruth Hampe
Professor of Special Education, Rehabilitation, and Art Therapy

Prof.in Dr. Monika Wigger
Head of Continuing Education in Art Therapy, Program Director M.A. in Art Therapy at the Catholic University Freiburg

Ulrike Prasch
PEAC Museum

Location

online and at
PEAC-Museum 
Robert-Bunsen-Str. 5
79108 Freiburg

Registration

The conference will be offered in a hybrid format:

Digital participation is free of charge and open to anyone interested. Access is via the online room of alfaview.

In addition, there is the option of participating on site at the PEAC Museum. Please note that the number of places is limited to 80. To register, please click here.