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Sino-Europe Healing Arts Summit (SEHAS 2025)
Sino-Europe Healing Arts Summit
Integration of Body-Mind-Spirit in the New Era of Arts in Health
📅 October 6, 2025 | 📍 Kushi Ling Meditation Centre, Arco, Italy
🌐 Format: In-person
Organizer: Inspirees Institute
Supported by: International Association of Creative Arts in Education and Therapy (IACAET)
We warmly invite you to the Sino-Europe Healing Arts Summit 2025 (SEHAS 2025) — a dynamic platform for cross-cultural dialogue, creative exchange, and holistic healing — held in the peaceful, nature-immersed setting of the Kushi Ling Meditation Centre in Arco, Northern Italy. SEHAS 2025 is part of the renowned CAET World Forum.
This hybrid summit focuses on the theme “Integration of Body-Mind-Spirit in the New Era of Arts and Health,” highlighting the role of the arts in fostering personal and collective transformation, healing, and resilience. In these times of global challenges, the summit invites practitioners and scholars to reconnect with themselves, each other, and the natural world through embodied and integrative approaches.
The summit offers a unique opportunity for dialogue between China and Europe. Chinese educators and therapists will share their experiences in arts education, creative arts therapy, and arts in health, alongside European colleagues who bring diverse professional and academic perspectives. This intercultural exchange enriches the conversation around holistic health and wellbeing.
The program features keynotes, presentations, and experiential sessions designed to nurture insight and embodied engagement. Set in the contemplative atmosphere of Kushi Ling, participants will be invited to explore healing through arts as a process that reconnects body, mind, spirit, and nature.
Additionally, participants may deepen their journey through three immersive on-site events:
- A 5-day Authentic Movement Retreat before the summit
- A 1-day Excursion to Lake Garda following the summit
- A 3-day Dance Therapy Healing Master Workshop after the summit
Whether joining in person or online, we invite you to be part of this inspiring gathering for integration, collaboration, and celebration of life through the healing arts. You can register for the Summit, Retreat and Workshop separately. Read full program and activities HERE.
Program (Tentative)
🕘 09:30 – 10:00 | Opening Ceremony & Welcome
- Welcome
- Introduction to the theme and the setting (Kushi Ling)
- Short guided centering or movement-based arrival ritual
🕙 10:00 – 10:40 | Opening Keynote
“Reimagining Healing: The Body-Mind-Spirit Triad in Contemporary Health Practices”
Speaker: Marcia Plevin
A visionary talk integrating Eastern and Western approaches to creative arts therapy and holistic health.
🕥 10:40 – 11:40 | East–West Dialogue Session
“Bridging Traditions: Chinese and European Perspectives on Arts Healing”
- Short presentations from 3 speakers (20 min each)
- Moderated discussion and Q&A
Presenters from China and Europe share how body-mind-spirit integration appears in their practices and contexts.
- Spirituality and Health in Modern Society – Ricardo Guerrero Diáñez
- He-artfulness: Heart-focused Aesthetic Attunement and Mental Health in China – Yang Jie
- Dance for Health: An Interdisciplinary Model for Social and Economic Impact – Anderew Greenwood
☕ 11:40 – 12:00 | Tea & Movement Break
Gentle, guided movement outdoors (weather permitting) or tea in silence for integration.
🕦 12:00 – 13:30 | Practitioner Panel
“Creative Arts in Clinical, Educational and Community Health Settings”
- Presentations from professionals on real-world case studies or models of practice
- Short experiential component from each
- Panel discussion and audience interaction
- Innovative Therapeutic Approaches for Children with Autism in China
- Fostering Creativity and Wellbeing among Chinese University Students through the Arts
- Revitalizing Communities through the Arts: Case Studies in Social Engagement
- Navigating Multicultural Challenges: Arts-Based Healing Practices for Overseas Chinese in Europe
🍽️ 13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch & Nature Pause
Encouraged silent reflection or optional sharing circle in nature (self-organized groups).
🕐 14:30 – 15:15 | Experiential Immersion
“Art as Meditation: Embodied Exploration Across Modalities”
- Led by a facilitator blending visual arts, movement, or voice
- Designed to reconnect participants with sensory experience and inner awareness
🕜 15:15 – 15:45 | Closing Keynote
“The Future of Arts in Health”
Speaker: Prof. Vivien Marcow Speiser
Explores the integrated dimension of the arts in education/therapy/health and the call for a new paradigm of integrated human health.
🕒 15:45 – 16:15 | Closing Circle & Reflections
- Reflections from speakers and participants
- Grounding body-based practice
- Group photo and ceremonial closing
Poster or Art Works Exhibition (Optional)
This exhibition features a diverse collection of research posters, creative artworks, and practice-based presentations from contributors across China and Europe. It highlights innovative work in arts therapy, arts education, and arts in health, bridging scientific inquiry with artistic exploration. Through the integration of body, mind, and spirit, and a focus on human-nature relationship, the exhibition offers a space for dialogue, reflection, and intercultural exchange within the healing arts.
Speakers (in expanding)
Ricardo Guerrero Diáñez (Spain), President and Co-Founder, The Hispanic Association of Buddhism.
Rosa Maria Govoni (Italy), BC-DMT, Senior faculty member, Dance/Movement Therapy Program of Inspirees Institute, Art Therapy Italiana. Circle of Four (Authentic Movement) Faculty. Co-Founder, Art Therapy Italiana.
Anderew Greenwood (Netherlands/UK), Director ‘Switch2Move’ & Co-founder ‘Dance and Creative Wellness Foundation.
Marcia Plevin (Italy/US), BC-DMT, Senior faculty member, Dance/Movement Therapy, Creative Movement Program of Inspirees Institute, Art Therapy Italiana. Circle of Four (Authentic Movement) Faculty. Co-Founder, Creative Movement Association.
Vivien Marcow Speiser (US), PhD, BC-DMT, REAT, Co-Director and Professor Emerita of the Institute for Arts and Health in The Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, Lesley University.
Jie Yang (Canada/China), PhD, Professor of anthropology, Simon Fraser University. Leading researcher on the aesthetic, therapeutic and neoliberal governance in contemporary China.
Tony Yu Zhou (China/Netherlands), PhD, Co-Founder of Inspirees Institute, CEO and founding executive boarder member of IACAET, Founding Executive Editor of CAET journal.
Cost
Standard price: 120 USD (including the summit participation and lunch on Oct 6). Free for Italy Study Tour delegation member.
Side Tour Program (optional)