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“Art and music help to heal wounds, whether through a passive process of observation/listening or an active process of creating something yourself. After each moment, there’s an improvement, a feeling of well-being. You create to heal.“

Charlotte Leber

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Art and music have marked our founder’s life from a very early age, and at a very young age she discovered the positive effects of creativity. As a mother, Charlotte Leber has tried to pass on values such as sharing and solidarity to her daughter. She motivated the 5-year-old girl to donate her toys to children hospitalised at Geneva University Hospitals. At the end of the visit, Muriel, then aged 5, looked at her mother and asked her a crucial question: “So, Mummy, I’ve done a good deed, but what are you doing?”

Never forgetting her daughter’s phrase, Charlotte gave the impetus for BNP Paribas bank’s first philanthropic projects and encouraged management to launch an art therapy project. Convinced of the positive impact of art, she and six hospitals founded the Fondation ART-THERAPIE in Geneva on 31 July 2008.

Our mission statement 

To promote access to art therapy for as many newborn babies, children and adolescents as possible who are hospitalised in Switzerland, thus improving their quality of life well beyond their hospital stay. 

Our Vision

Art therapy has been established in Switzerland as a recognised form of therapy and is an integral part of hospital care, enabling hospitals to cover the costs of these programmes.

Foundation Board  

The volunteer Board of Trustees is responsible for the strategic direction of the Foundation and oversees its various activities. Each member brings a variety of skills to the table, enabling them to make informed decisions.

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Charlotte Leber

Fonder, President, Genève & Zürich

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Daniel Frutig

Vice-President, Unternehmer, Winterthur

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Dr. med. Kurt Albermann

Member, Chefarzt Sozialpädiatrisches Zentrum (SPZ), stv. Leiter Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Kantonsspital Winterthur

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Prof. Dr. med. Bernhard Frey

Member, ehemaliger Abteilungsleiter Intensivmedizin und Neonatologie, Universitäts-Kinderspital (KISPI), Zürich

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Patrick Voegeli 

Member, Membre Conseil d’Administration Cité Gestion Private Bank, Genève

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Ursula Bonhage

Member, Geschäftsführerin Stiftung Stöckenweid, Feldmeilen

 

The Team

The operating team currently comprises five people, with a total workload of 250%.

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Silvana Mombelli Thommen

Managing Director

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Cassandra Peirera

Backoffice

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Muriel Leber

Project & Media Support

 

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Sophie Tarchini

Fundraising & Communication Suisse romande

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Michaela Keiser

Fundraising & Communication Deutschschweiz

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Advisory Board

The Advisory Board shares its expertise and experience in various fields on a voluntary basis, and provides us with help and advice whenever we need it. Current members:  

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Montserrat Bellprat

Coordination of the foundation sector   Responsable Members & Community, SwissFoundations 

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Jutta Gangsted

Legal Affairs
Attorney at Law (New York), LL.M., TEP, Lenz & Staehlin

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Jo Hazelwood

Fundraising & Communication
Fundraising and Communication Specialist

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Sandra Lutz Hochreutener

Dr.sc.mus., Musiktherapeutin SFMT, eidg. anerk. Psychotherapeutin, Supervisorin bso; emer. Leitung Studiengänge Musiktherapie. Leitung Diplomweiterbildung Supervision & Coaching sowie musiktherapeutische Forschung an der ZHdK.

 
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Isabelle Thomann

Public Relations & Events
Membre du Conseil de fondation, Fondation Jean-Marc Probst pour le Petit Prince

 

Hors conseil

Secretary of the Foundation Board

Silvana Mombelli Thommen

Expert

Prof. Dr. Alain Golay, ancien médecin-chef, service d’Éducation thérapeutique du patient pour maladies chroniques, diabète et obésité, HUG

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Dr. med. Josef Laimbacher, ehemaliger Chefarzt Abteilung Jugendmedizin, Ostschweizer Kinderspital, St. Gallen

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Cornelia Neuhaus, Co-Leitung Therapien, Universitäts-Kinderspital beider Basel

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Dr. med. Valdo Pezzoli, ex primario del reparto di Pediatria, Ospedale regionale di Lugano EOC

Partner

An association by and for premature babies and their families. We work on a voluntary basis to promote music and music therapy for premature and sick babies and their parents.

Milestones

2023

The Foundation has successfully passed the certification examination and now bears the Zewo quality label.

2021

The Foundation is reorganising its administration to meet increasing demands (additional partner hospitals, additional programmes).

New music therapy programmes at the CHUV: Day centres at SUPEA for children and scientific study “40Hz” for mentally ill adolescents.

 

2020
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The Board of Trustees is renewed.

Christmas promotions: Hermès sells its “carré généreux” for the benefit of the Foundation and the proceeds of the “Art for Children” auction go to the Foundation.

Two new partner hospitals: Cantonal Hospital of Lucerne (LUKS) and the Cantonal Hospital of Fribourg.

 

2019
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The prestigious magazine “National Geographic” classifies the results of the study on premature babies at HUG as one of the twelve innovations that will revolutionise the future of medicine.

Two new ambassadors join the Patronage Committee: The musician and composer Andreas Vollenweider and the cellist Kian Soltani.

2018
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Ten years of the Foundation: 22,200 patients, 50,600 sessions and 67,100 hours of therapies, 16 programmes.

Fifth anniversary art therapy symposium at the Paul Klee Centre, Bern with 120 participants (lectures, workshops, panel discussions).

Start of collaboration with the department “Développement et Croissance (Development and Growth)” at the HUG (Prof. Hüppi) for the research project on the effect of music on the development of extremely premature babies.

Start of the “Dysgraphia” programme at the Regional Hospital of Lugano.

2016

4. Art Therapy Symposium in Geneva as part of the SETE Congress.

2015

Two new partner hospitals: Women’s Clinic at St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital, University Clinic for Paediatrics at the Inselspital in Berne.

2014
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The “Schema corporeo (Body plan)” programme starts in Lugano (EOC).

Prof. Jean-Luc Sudres presents the initial results of the first multicentre study in Switzerland on the effect of art therapy on disturbed eating behaviour in adolescents, carried out in the hospitals of Geneva, Lugano and Winterthur.

Third Art Therapy Symposium at the University Children’s Hospital of Basel.

2013
Lions Club of Geneva grand fundraising gala with comedian Michel Leeb. The proceeds will enable the “Contrepoids (Counterweight)” programme for overweight children at the Geneva University Hospital HUG, which will start the following year.
2012

Foundation of the Patronage Committee.

Second Art Therapy Symposium of the Foundation at SIK, Zurich.

2011
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First symposium with 19 art and music therapists at the Swiss Institute for Art Studies SIK in Zurich.

The painter Michel Huélin designed the cover for the CD “Butterfly in the snow” and for the documentary film “Creativity heals”.

Three more hospitals join the foundation: The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen, the Cantonal Hospital in Baden and the Cantonal Hospital in the Grisons.

2010
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The director J.J. Goosens, Brussels, produces the documentary film “Creativity Heals”.

During MANOR’s anniversary Christmas campaign, 48,500 plush bears are being sold for the benefits of the foundation.

The legendary singer-songwriter Petula Clark composes the song “Butterfly in the snow” for the foundation.

The first newsletter is published, followed by two to three per year.

31.07.2008

Six hospitals set up the ART-THERAPIE foundation on the initiative of Charlotte Leber: University Children’s Hospital of Basel (UKBB), University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), University Hospital Centre of Vaud (CHUV), Regional Hospital of Lugano (EOC), Winterthur Cantonal Hospital (KSW), Zurich University Children’s Hospital (KISPI).

 
1998-2008

The general management of BNP Paribas, where Charlotte Leber works, supports an art therapy pilot project.

Revisor

Consultive Revisions AG, Winterthur

Status
Annual Report 2022
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HEAD OFFICE

Fondation ART-THERAPIE
Rue de Beaumont 11
CH-1206 Genève

+41 78 838 24 26
info(a)arttherapie.org

Postfinance : 12-731551-9                                       IBAN : CH29 0900 0000 1273 1551 9

CRÉDIT SUISSE AG
Compte: 0251-1489262-11
IBAN: CH19 0483 5148 9262 1100 0

SOCIAL

NEWSLETTER

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DATA PROTECTION
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Member of proFonds, the Swiss umbrella organisation for charitable foundations and associations.