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China

Fiona Chang, RSW, MSocSc, BSW

Professional Diploma in Creative Photography

Art in Hospital, 8/F, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai, HK
Hong Kong SAR China
(852) 9198 4363
fififoo@gmail.com

Fiona Chang has worked as a registered social worker, an expressive

arts facilitator and a trainer in Hong Kong. She has used expressive arts in group therapy and counseling for more than 14 years. She facilitated the use of expresive arts for a wide range of client groups: cancer patients, the chronically ill, deprived women, ex-drug addicts and parents of children with special needs. She is the Vice-Chairperson of the "Art in Hospital", the Honorary Lecturer of the Department of Social Work and Social Admininstration and the Clinical Associate of the Centre on Behavioral Health of the University of Hong Kong. She lectures the use of arts in social service and health care context in Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China.

Fiona holds a Master of Social Science in Family Therapy and Health Care. Her study on "Using Arts as a Self-Healing Avenue for Cancer Patients" was awarded the Young Investigators' Award in the 5th Hong Kong International Cancer Congress. She is the pioneer of the Patient Resource Centre and the outstanding staff of the Hospital Authority in 1995. She is now studying the Person-Centered Expressive Therapy course led by Dr. Natalie Rogers and Dr. Christine Evans at Saybrook Graduate School.

Fiona is inspired by the affection, beauty, creativity, delight, expression and freedom of expressive arts in a person-centered approach. Fiona hopes more people can use the arts to generate energy for growth with congruence, love and faith.

Finland

Josie Kurkinen, MA
Kivitie 21 A
Espoo, Finland 02240
Phone +358-50-304-3609
j.kurkinen@elisanet.fi

At this moment my work with expressive arts therapy is mostly

academic. I’m currently writing my dissertation at Saybrook Graduate School (California) on the role of the creative process and expressive arts therapy in healing and personal change.

Venezuela

Silvia Jastram

Bolivar, Venezuela

Phone 58-4166868875

estrelladelsur@cantv.net   sjastram@gmail.com

Silvia Jastram holds a BA in Mass Media Communication and an Expressive Arts certificate from Saybrook Graduate School. She completed Advanced Teachers Training from ISLP (Connecticut) Professor in Creativity at UCAB (Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Venezuela).

Sylvia specializes in group facilitation and conferences, primarily bilingual (Spanish and English). A French and German speaker as well, she is available for international workshops. She also sees private clients. Sylvia gives workshops in Venezuela and Spain on Creativity and Peace Leadership, using expressive arts to explore the individual and collective unconscious mental patterns that affect our communication and hinder the attainment of harmony, peace and successful negotiations on conflicting issues. She will be soon be conducting a radio program directed at promoting universal values and non-violent communication using poetry and other forms of expressive arts adapted to the media.

On a personal level, Sylvia is writing a novel as a means of redirecting her personal energy into a psychological redemption through the lives of the characters in her book. She describes this process as an ongoing exploration that is teaching her about the staggering synchronicity between creativity and real life issues.