The work of healthcare professionals often feels like a game in navigating the systems in which we work. At ITA’s 7th annual Integrated Creative Arts Therapy Conference, learn how to play a different game. 

Navigating health insurance. Working in carceral and involuntary care facilities. Scrambling for funding. Being disconnected from other providers. Filling a growing need while resisting saviorism. The work of healthcare professionals often feels like a game in navigating the systems in which we work. At ITA’s 7th annual Integrated Creative Arts Therapy Conference, learn how to play a different game.

Part 1 (virtual, Central Time) will focus on demonstrating how the creative arts therapies work within and bridge divides between systems. Presentations will show how creative arts therapies make connections through creativity, play, and joy in healthcare, educational, and community settings.

Moderating the Opening Panel Creating a Community of Care: A Generative Peer DEI Workgroup

In this panel presentation, six music therapists from diverse intersectional socio-cultural locations will share their experiences of a peer generated DEIAJ focused supervision group that explores topics related to diversity, equity, inclusivity, and accessibility in clinical practice, supervision, academia, education and training, healthcare systems, music therapy organizations, service, and more.