Donnerstag 26. März 2026, 18:30 - 21:00

A SHAPE FOR YOUR PAIN AND MY PAIN

Time to reflect and offer a new meaning to pain through art therapy process

Vortrag via Zoom

Therapeutic accompaniment involves addressing people's pain in all its forms -physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, and relational. All these "pains" we witness in others stir inevitably our own pain.

How do we relate to pain, and how much space does it take up within us? What kind of pain affects us most in our relationships with others? How does my own pain resonate with that of the other person? How do both interact within me, and where can they lead me?”

This workshop will offer the opportunity to reflect together on these questions, inviting silence to the mind and instead allowing our hands and the spontaneous and unconscious images within us to respond and guide us to discover the most appropriate responses in the here and now of our process.

Throughout my many years offering emotional support in palliative care, I have become aware of the many different forms that pain can take, and how essential it is to receive each one, so that no suffering remains unexpressed or unheard.

Art Therapy offers a symbolic language to give form to what has no form and cannot be conveyed by words. In this workshop we will see how the AT process can help both the patient and the therapist:  starting from the painful content we witness, allowing it flow, and opening a path of transformation through the “therapeutic spiral”.

Vortragssprache ist Englisch.

Speaker: Alessandra Agnese

Artist (Fine Arts Academy) and Art Therapist (ATI, Italy), recognized as Art Psychotherapist from Goldsmith College (London), Bach Flower Registered Practitioners (UK), Facilitator of Holotropic Breathwork in Transpersonal Psychotherapy (GTT).  She has been working for more than twenty years focusing on the treatment of trauma in educational, medical, rehabilitation, social and school contexts: in Medical Art Therapy in Pediatrics and Child Neuropsychiatry and with adults in Oncology, Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant; also, with teenagers with physical and learning difficulties and with women in prison. She teaches and supervises in Art Therapy training schools. She is APIArT Board member (Italian Association of Professional Art Therapists), with the roles: evaluation for the admission of oversea students; thesis external examiner. EFAT full member, part of the Professional Development Committee and AT online SIGs. She works with: Morgagni Institute of Integrated Medicine, in Hospice Ghirotti with ALS, terminal patients, their relatives and the medical staff, with Alzheimer’s caregivers and with Parkinson and neurodegenerative diseases (Italy). She has private practice also online.The studies and in-depth analyses that she follows focus on the relationship between body, mind, and spirituality.