New Publication: Drawing Improves Memory Especially for those who have Difficulty Remembering Words

New research by Dr. Unnur Guðrún Óttarsdóttir on "Experiments on the Efficacy of Drawing for Memorization among Adults and Children with Varying Written Word Memory Capacities: A Two-Way Crossover Design," has been published in the "Education Sciences" journal (29 April 2024). For those who find it challenging to remember words, drawing them has been shown […]

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Joint Mirror Drawing to Facilitate Communication and Increase Well-being at University of Akureyri

The Faculty of Health, Business, and Natural Sciences at the University of Akureyri organized the Sjónaukinn conference, where Unnur presented a lecture titled "Joint Mirror Drawing to Facilitate Communication and Increase Well-being." The conference's theme was Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges. She shared the mirror drawing method's development, discovery, and application with the audience. At the […]

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Art therapy and memory drawing: Working with children in schools

This course is open to qualified Art Therapists and Art Therapy Trainees. Participants will gain knowledge about the basis of the methods and theories of memory drawing, which aids individuals in better memorising various facts related to their coursework learning. Memory drawing also facilitates processing of emotions in the same way as the art-making process […]

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Integrating memory drawing into art therapy

Online Course

The course is open for art therapists who would like to integrate memory drawing into art therapy through: understanding the emotional process included in memory drawing and integrating memory drawing into the art making within art therapy

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Introduction to art therapy I

Course

Do you want to unleash the creativity within you and your clients? Do you want to understand how thoughts and emotions are expressed through art making? Do you want to know how you can increase strength and facilitate well-being through the process of making art? Do you want to increase your understanding of imagery and symbolism of art?

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Art therapy, writing-images and memory drawing: Course and supervision

This course is intended for qualified art therapists, art therapy students, and other qualified creative therapists from around the world. Through art making, sharing, supervision, discussions, reading, studying, and lectures the participants will gain knowledge about methods and theories of art educational therapy which includes the application of writing-images and memory-drawing. The course is for […]

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Joint Mirror Drawing to Facilitate Communication and Increase Well-being at University of Akureyri

The Faculty of Health, Business, and Natural Sciences at the University of Akureyri organized the Sjónaukinn conference, where Unnur presented a lecture titled "Joint Mirror Drawing to Facilitate Communication and Increase Well-being." The conference's theme was Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges. She shared the mirror drawing method's development, discovery, and application with the audience. At the […]

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New Publication: Drawing Improves Memory Especially for those who have Difficulty Remembering Words

New research by Dr. Unnur Guðrún Óttarsdóttir on "Experiments on the Efficacy of Drawing for Memorization among Adults and Children with Varying Written Word Memory Capacities: A Two-Way Crossover Design," has been published in the "Education Sciences" journal (29 April 2024). For those who find it challenging to remember words, drawing them has been shown […]

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Unnur gave a lecture on memory and trauma

Unnur participated in a conference about trauma and memory from an interdisciplinary perspective. The conference was hosted by the "London Center for Interdisciplinary Research." Unnur delivered the lecture "Memory Drawing for Children who Have Experienced Stress and/or Trauma and Have Specific Learning Difficulties" about her research on trauma, treatment, learning, and memory. She discussed how […]

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