Speakers

• Ellen Dekker Art Therapist
  Ellen Dekker

  Art Therapist

  Ellen Dekker is an art therapist, teacher and artist who lives in Zutphen.
  After studying Design at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, she worked for 14 years as an art director and set designer for Dutch television.
  In 2000 she got her license as an Art therapist, and started her own practice ‘De Ontdekking’, where she works with individuals and groups young and old with all kinds of guiding questions.
  Ellen also teaches Art Therapy. She did so for 10 years at the Instituut voor Klank en Vorm in Zutphen and now since 7 years for Civas in Haarlem.
  As an artist she had several expositions of her paintings in Germany and the Netherlands.

• Han Kurstjen Psychologist, lecturer, researcher and music therapist.
  

  Han Kurstjen

  Psychologist, lecturer, researcher and music therapist.

  Han Kurstjens is a psychologist, music therapist, supervisor, researcher and musician. His main interests are on active music therapy, improvisation, music centered approach, morphological music therapy.
  He has been a lecturer for over 30 years at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (retiring September 2016) and researcher at KenvaK for 10 years. He worked in psychiatry for over 6 years and has a private practice (25 years). He presents at national and international conferences and is guest lecturer UB Barcelona (Spain), Tallinn University (Estonia), Jyväskylä University (Finland), HKS Ottersberg (Germany), Academia Musica Slupsk ( Poland).

• Juul Sadee
  

  Juul Sadee

  picture made by Sam Shayne

• Laurens Landeweerd Philiosoper, lecturer and researcher Institute for Science in Society
  

  Laurens Landeweerd

  Philiosoper, lecturer and researcher Institute for Science in Society

  Laurens Landeweerd (1976) studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and Culture&Science at Maastricht University. He wrote his PhD thesis in the field of medical ethics, and is currently working on a second thesis on the notion of time in physics, the life sciences and the neurosciences. Landeweerd currently works for the Institute of Science in Society at Radboud University’s Faculty of Science, as well iArts, the interdisciplinary bachelor of the Maastricht Institute of Arts. For both positions, he focuses on the genres of the imagination in relation to science and technology.
  In a project line guided by Maastricht-based artist Juul Sadee and Laurens Landeweerd, the first year students of iArts create an exposition each year for museum dr Josef Guislain in Ghent. This museum visualises insanity in thematic exhibitions, on digital platforms. The museum hosts both public and educational activities on psychiatry, its history, on outsider art, etc. The museum thus creates platforms to discuss mental pathologies in their societal context. Landeweerd will provide for an introductory lecture on his work in this relation between psychiatry, art and philosophy.

• Mark Kinet Psychiatrist and chief editor of the series Psychoanalytisch Actueel.
  Mark Kinet

  Psychiatrist and chief editor of the series Psychoanalytisch Actueel.

  Mark Kinet is a psychiatrist and chief editor of the series Psychoanalytisch Actueel. He wrote or edited over 25, including Psychologie van de kunst. Een abecedarium
  His website: www.markkinet.be

• Mischa Selis Psychiatrist & Program director International Mental Health Festival
  

  Mischa Selis

  Psychiatrist & Program director International Mental Health Festival