«I know of no better definition for the word art than this:
Art – that is the human being.»

We are very pleased to announce our participation in the "Frauenlauf Bern”. Join us on June 11, 2023 at our booth for a creative activity or at the starting line with our running team. To find out more about our running team and register: click here.

We welcome "amia musica" as a new partner of the ART-THERAPIE Foundation. Music therapy unites the association and the foundation, together we are committed to the health of premature and sick children. Amia musica is an association that provides music and music therapy to premature and sick children and their parents on a voluntary basis. Because music works! To learn more about this very...

For seven Mondays from October to December 2022, figures from the world of science and professors from the USI Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, led by Enzo Grossi, discussed seven themes that link music to medicine and personal wellbeing. This is what "Healing through music" offered, the second stage of the Culture and Health course promoted by the USI Faculty of Biomedical Sciences in...

A touching, cinematic portrait by Marianne Gutknecht, Sandra Sennhauser and Thomas Karrer, which takes the audience into the fascinating world of music therapy. A world in which music awakens memories, expresses feelings, discovers resources and builds bridges to the other person. On September 19, the short film was shown for the first time at the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK - with the...

GivingTuesday is a worldwide movement for more generosity and humanity. And we are part of it. Our goal is to raise CHF 2,000 by December 18 to benefit art and music therapy programs for mentally ill children and adolescents hospitalized in six of our partner hospitals, and to raise public awareness about the importance of art therapies in the healing process of mental illness. With your...

We are pleased to welcome Cassandra Pereira as a new member of staff for administration and accounting. The economist has been on board since the beginning of September and is running the back office while completing her studies in social work at the ZHAW Zurich. Besides her mother tongue German, Cassandra also speaks French, English and Spanish. Welcome to the team!

Doing good beyond our lifetime and continuing to work for the common good is the greatest gift we can give to future generations. Since 2022, the ART-THERAPIE Foundation has been a member of the Alliance for the Common Good Allianz für das Gemeinwohl, so that you can support art therapy programs for sick children and adolescents with your bequest. On the Weiter-Wirken platform you will find...

Ursula Bonhage studied pharmacy and biology. As head of the MAS in Managed Health Care of the Winterthur Institute for Health Economics (WIG) for many years, she continued her professional training as an adult educator and business mediator and dealt intensively with applied leadership issues in the health sector. Thanks to her many years of management experience as Head of Continuing Education...

Psychological and psychosomatic stress is increasing among children and adolescents. The Social Pediatric Centre at the KSW is therefore doubling the number of inpatient places for children and adolescents from six to twelve and further expanding the number of outpatient positions. Page 3 Der Landbote 2022 04 26

Starting in 2022, the ART-THERAPY Foundation is supporting a new music therapy programme at the Clinic for Children and Adolescents at the Cantonal Hospital in Aarau (KSA). For a long time, there has been a wish at the KSA to offer an art and music therapy programme in paediatric oncology and haematology to complement the existing figure therapy programme. Thanks to the support of the...