Our annual conference affords professionals and students an opportunity to connect and learn about clinical work, research, training, and representation within art, dance/movement, drama and music therapies.
9th Annual Integrated Creative Arts Therapy Conference:
Nourishing Networks: Grow Through What We Go Through
March 21-22, 2025, (In-person at ITA's new location, 1316 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL, 60201) &
March 30-31, 2025 (Virtual)
Healthcare professionals often feel challenged to draw from our strengths as resilient, creative, and resourceful clinicians amid systems that seem to work against us. At ITA’s 9th annual Integrated Creative Arts Therapy Conference, learn how to nourish networks rooted in care and liberation.
Health care professionals demonstrate resiliency, creativity, and resourcefulness as we adapt to economic, political, and social changes across the world. At the same time, our existing systems often fall short of supporting our work, leading to burnout and disconnection. The creative arts therapies can mitigate these challenges through an emphasis on the sustainability of our clinical practice, self-care and community care, and collective liberation.
Coinciding with ITA’s 50th anniversary, we aim to celebrate and tend to our roots as creative arts therapists while looking to the future of our fields. At Nourishing Networks, we will demonstrate how the creative arts therapies can cultivate systems of care in healthcare, education, and community settings through an emphasis on anti-carceral, culturally responsive, and liberatory approaches.
Call for Papers
Be a presenter. Submit a proposal for a workshop, lecture, panel, performance, poster, or discussion that empowers and equips creative arts therapists to address the evolving healthcare needs affecting our communities.
Deadline for proposals: November 4, 2024
Proposal Submission
Registration will open in December 2024
Sponsorship opportunities are now available!
We have several options for different sponsorship levels. You can learn more by checking out our sponsorship brochure and join our growing list of sponsors! Contact Maura Rogan at mrogan@itachicago.org for more info.
Sponsorship Brochure Coming Soon
Thank you to our 2024 sponsors:
