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Save the date for IEATA’s 16th International Conference: June 20–22, 2025!

Over 29 years of worldwide impact

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49

countries

represented among IEATA members

29

years

as a global community and standard bearer

37

conferences

hosted internationally since 1994

940+

members

growing the expressive arts around the world


IEATA’s impact on members

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Meaningful connections

IEATA is not only a professional home but a safe, welcoming, and inclusive community of friends.

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Career development

From REAT® and REACE® registration to collaborative learning opportunities, we help members grow professionally.

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Professional credibility

Through gold-standard registration, we make sure that expressive arts practitioners are seen as trustworthy professionals.

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Global perspectives

IEATA members share and grow across cultural and national borders—but are woven together by the thread of creativity.

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Creative ideas

Learn what your peers are doing to bring the expressive arts more fully into their personal and professional lives.

“Being part of the IEATA community has been a way for me to honor the life saving and life improving part the intermodal expressive arts has had for my personal life and for the life of my students and clients. I know that Expressive Arts is a powerful healing force in the world and a source of compassion, inspiration and wellness for humanity.”

Lorena Fernandez, PhD, REACE®

“I am so honored to be a part of the global community which is IEATA. The ability to be connected through this organization worldwide a feels exciting and energizing! Intermodal Expressive Arts is a beautiful way of engaging our innate creative selves in a wholistic way. IEATA supports and enlivens my involvement in this field.”

Betsy Funk, LCSW, LIMHP, MPA, REAT®

“Being part of the IEATA community is an integral part of my growth and development in my chosen profession. I meet and learn from wonderful, dedicated Expressive Arts practitioners, have many resources at my fingertips, and can always reach out with a question. Working on and attending IEATA conferences has been a joyous part of my journey.”

Susan Paul Johnson, PhD, REACE®

“Being a part of the IEATA community has been a key piece of my professional journey. As an intercultural, international, and intermodal community of doing heart-based eco-based work to better ourselves, our communities, and our planet. It has been such an amazing supportive journey for me as I feel seen and heard. Feeling much gratitude.”

Jennie Kristel, M.A. REAT®, APTT, RMT
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“The IEATA community is my professional home. IEATA has held and shaped my work for over 25 years, and has also given me the opportunity to assist in shaping the field and upholding the standards. IEATA is a global, responsive, inclusive, diverse community that brings us together, from around the globe, in service this amazing and life-changing, world-changing work that we all do.”

Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE®, REAT®,  United States

IEATA’s impact on the world

While many of our activities focus on our members, IEATA’s true impact extends far beyond IEATA membership alone. Why? Because our members take what they gain from IEATA and bring it into their daily lives, both personally and professionally.

By connecting and empowering expressive arts practitioners all around the world, we promote growth, transformation, and healing on a global level.

Every conference, every social action initiative, every book club meeting—they all serve to foster the creative spirit in communities worldwide.

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“Intermodal Expressive Arts is a path towards a culturally inclusive, accessible, and neurodiverse future.”

Reji Mathew, PhD, LCSW, REAT®

“Intermodal expressive arts means weaving together various art forms to breathe life into the emotions captured in a single moment. It is personal, profound, and evocative, a celebration of how emotions can be felt and shared.”

Heidi LaPorte, DSW, MSW
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“Intermodal arts are a universal language and therefore all inclusive, not only to include the diversity of our humanity, but a multi-modal doorway into the many layers of each of us.”

Maria Gonzalez-Blue, MA, REAT®, REACE®

Learn more about the impact of expressive arts in the world!

Save the Date 16th International Conference!

16th International Conference June 20 - 22, 2025 in Beverly, MA