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9th Annual ICAT Conference: Nourishing Networks (In-Person)
March 21 @ 8:00 am - March 22 @ 5:00 pm CDT
Nourishing Networks: Grow Through What We Go Through
March 21-22, 2025 (In-Person) | March 30-31, 2025 (Virtual) | View Full Conference Program HERE. 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. 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.
Meet Our Keynote Speaker
Adam D-F. Stevens (they|them), MA, RDT/BCT, is a Registered Drama Therapist (RDT)and Board-Certified Trainer who works with queer, POC, and neurodivergent youth in transforming their loss, grief, and trauma into unapologetic, abundant joy and empowerment. Adam serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Creative Arts Therapy/Applied Theatre Programs at Antioch University in Seattle, and Marymount Manhattan College in NYC. They are the Artistic Director for NYU’s Collideoscope Repertory Theatre Company, CRTC. CRTC’s mission is to advance racial justice and healing through performance. Adam is a doctoral student in the NYU’s Educational Theatre PhD Program. Adam is the secretary for the board of directors of the National Alliance for Children’s Grief, NACG, where much of their work includes bringing a multicultural, social justice, and creative lens to grief and bereavement work. Additionally, they sit on the Board of Directors for the North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA) as the current President. Adam’s superpowers are rooted in the fantastical forces of creativity and love.Sponsorship Opportunities
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.Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors!
