On March 19, 2020, The University
of Jordan held the Kick-off meeting for “HEALING” project remotely instead of a
face-to-face meeting in Amman-Jordan in response to recent Covid-19 crisis.
HEALING (Developing a
Multidisciplinary Diploma on Art Therapy in Health Education) project will work
to present and encourage the development of Arts Therapy education in partner
countries (Jordan and Tunsia), in particular, to design professional
educational program (e-learning package) that will enable all staff and
students working with patients with long term conditions to offer their
patients art-based therapeutic activities.
The meeting started by a welcome
speech form the project general coordinator, Prof. Ahmed Al-Salaymeh, followed
by a presentation introducing HEALING Project with outlining the project
objectives, indicators, expected results of each work package and their overall
plan.
During the meeting, the participating
partners introduced themselves and their universities with a focus on their related
experience to Art Therapy. The Work package leaders presented the seven work
packages of the project and discussed their action plan for implementation with
other partners.
The meeting was attended
by 35 persons from the partner universities in Jordan, Tunisia, Portugal,
Croatia, Italy, Belgium and Greece.