The International Arts Therapies Library

Twenty-Four Years of Experiential Sandplay in Our Annual Sandplay Day Circle Some connections begin in silence. In 2002, our journey began almost by chance, in an introductory Sandplay Therapy workshop led by Lenore Steinhardt, for art therapists who came with questions and a shared curiosity about Sandplay Therapy. For four days, we studied sandplay theory, spoke about Jung and the psyche, about symbols, and about what longs to be born through hands playing in the sand long before words can...

Colonies, Memory, and the Quiet Labor of Minerals Salt entered my life long before it entered my work. I grew up near the Mediterranean Sea, surrounded by light, movement, and a sense of openness. And yet, the place that shaped my way of seeing the world was elsewhere — at the lowest point on Earth. The Dead Sea. A landscape that does not behave like a landscape. A place where scale collapses, where time thickens, where the body becomes acutely aware of itself. The Dead Sea always felt closer...

Toddlers' first lines are formed by chance, arising from a sensorimotor need. They notice and discover that their body movements can leave a mark on substances. Jasmin Berman Gili Bendersky Ruth Hillel They try this magic countless times with immense enjoyment. They then create deliberate lines and marks in their porridge that smear onto the table, into the sand, and later onto paper. Orly Cohen Shulman Nona Orbach I have always felt magic in moments when I could witness how brain and body...