Iacat Ireland

📢 AGM 2026 — tickets still available!

If you haven’t secured your tickets for the IACAT AGM 2026 yet, you’re still in time.

Tickets are available through the IACAT website, and we warmly invite all members to join us for this important event. A space to connect, share, and engage with colleagues across the community.

This year will be especially meaningful as IACAT celebrates its 40th anniversary 🎉

🎟️ Find the links to book your ticket in our bio!

We look forward to seeing many of you there!

🧠 At IACAT, we support taking action for mental health, in ways that are real and possible for each person.

Sometimes it’s speaking up. Sometimes it’s listening. Sometimes it’s creating.

Creative arts therapies can help give space for that.

💬 What does “taking action” mean to you?

It is a pleasure for IACAT to welcome Katie Fitzpatrick and her music at the IACAT 40th Anniversary Festival, a special celebration of music and connection 💜🧡🎉 .

Katie Fitzpatrick is a Senior Music Therapist specialising in chronic pain within a multidisciplinary hospital setting. She trained at the University of Limerick and contributes to teaching and research supervision at Master’s and PhD level. Katie works from a biopsychosocial and trauma-informed perspective, with a focus on lived experience in her research. She is the European Music Therapy Confederation country representative for Ireland and is co-host of the podcast Let’s Talk Music Therapy.

🎟️ Tickets are selling fast; link in bio!

📌 Correction Notice - AGM 2026

‼️ An incorrect email address was shared in a previous post.

If you are not an IACAT member and booked your workshop through a €20 donation, please send your payment confirmation to:

[email protected]

We apologise for any confusion caused and appreciate your understanding.

As part of IACAT’s 40th Anniversary Celebration Festival, we are delighted to welcome Sarah Keating to join us for this very special event 🎉.

Sarah is the Founder and Senior Music Therapist at Keating Music Therapy, specialising in older adult mental health and neurodisability across the lifespan. Trained at the University of Limerick, she is an IACAT member and MT-BC accredited. Throughout her career, she has worked in both Ireland and Canada, combining her clinical work with supervision for music therapists and co-producing the podcast Let’s Talk Music Therapy.

We are so excited to have Sarah with us for this meaningful celebration and to share in the experience, warmth, creativity, and passion she brings to the our community ✨.

It’s going to be a festival full of music, connection, and celebration 🎊 and we would love for you to be part of it 💜🧡.

🎟️ Tickets are now available, so come celebrate 40 years of IACAT with us!

IACAT AGM 2026 & 40th Anniversary Workshops 🎉

As part of the IACAT AGM and 40th anniversary celebrations, a series of workshops will take place across the weekend, offering opportunities for learning, reflection and connection within the creative arts therapies community.

As this is a special anniversary year, the opportunity has been opened for participation by non-members through a €20 donation per workshop.

Once the donation has been made, proof of payment and the name of the selected workshop should be sent to: [email protected]

IACAT members have free access to all workshops and are required to book a ticket for each day of the event.

Saturday 6 June
Afternoon workshop:
Weaving Ritual into Sustainable Therapeutic Practice
Facilitated by: Lucy Hyland

Sunday 7 June
Morning workshop:
“Letting your soft animal body love what it loves”
Finding rest and support for our professional practice through moving with the more-than-human
Facilitated by: Anna Fiona Keogh

Afternoon workshop:
Aligned & Designed: Creative’s Business
Draw your perfect business
Facilitated by: Anya Spark

IACAT welcomes this information being shared with anyone who may be interested in attending.

Looking forward to the AGM celebrations!

Dear Members, 

The Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists (IACAT) and the British Association of Dramatherapists (BADTH) are deeply saddened to share the passing of our member and friend, Áilbhe Hines.

Áilbhe was a highly valued member of the creative arts therapy community, with deep involvement across both organisations. She served on the IACAT Council and was an active, committed contributor to the life of the association.

Alongside her work as a creative arts therapist, Áilbhe was an artist in her own right. Her creativity, integrity, and care for the arts and for people were evident in all that she did. She brought thoughtfulness, warmth, and commitment to her professional and creative work, and her presence will be deeply missed.

We extend our heartfelt condolences to Áilbhe’s family, friends, and all those who knew and loved her. Her loss will be felt across the creative arts therapy community in Ireland, the UK, and beyond.

‘May the earth be soft beneath you. 
May the wind carry you gently. 
May you rest in the rhythms of the natural world.’

CEO IACAT
Apply by 15/01/26

We are looking for someone to accompany us, as we bring IACAT into a new phase of development.

This is a wonderful opportunity for someone who has the vision and commitment to develop and increase visibility of the Creative Arts Therapies in Ireland and Internationally.
Apply via Indeed