Dr. Unnur Óttarsdóttir has been invited, alongside respected art therapists, to speak at the World Art Therapy Conference 2025. She will present, 8th of February 2025, her research on memory and drawing. The potential of memory drawing, a technique developed by Óttarsdóttir, as a method for enhancing memory retention and supporting emotional well-being will be […]
Dr. Unnur Guðrún Óttarsdóttir, educator and art therapist, presents in an online webinar the lecture Enhancing Recall and Emotional Well-being Through Memory Drawing. The occasion is the findings of a memory drawing study recently published in the journal Education Sciences and in a book chapter released by Routledge. Dr. Óttarsdóttir’s research consisted of asking […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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
