Dr. Ronen Berger
Dr. Ronen Berger is the founder of Nature Therapy, a drama therapist, researcher, author, and internationally renowned lecturer. He specializes in nature-based and arts-based therapy, with a focus on collective trauma and loss, and on fostering personal and community resilience through creativity, play, and connection to nature.
Dr. Berger has established and led therapy and training programs at Tel Aviv University, Ono Academic College, and Tel-Hai College, as well as in collaboration with Israel’s Ministry of Education and Ministry of Defense. He has written and edited twelve books and dozens of professional articles, including several free protocol books available online - designed to provide theoretical and practical methods accessible to educators, therapists, and community professionals.
His work integrates body, art, nature, and performance, and draws on his rich background as an ecologist, dancer, actor, and social innovator. He currently heads the children's and youth programs at the Community Tsress Prevention Center, and leads the therapeutic play specialization at Ono Academic College. He also serves as a visiting professor at the Universities of Ioannina and Thessaloniki in Greece.
Dr. Berger is currently writing his thirteenth book, commissioned by the Ministry of Education, which presents the theoretical foundation and practical models for a national school-based program promoting pluralism, acceptance of the other, and coexistence.
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Education - Key workers
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Nature Therapy - Key Workers
Ronen advises principals, teaches, guides and accompanies education teams in schools and kindergartens on issues related to the development and assimilation of creative and differential ways of education and teaching.
He established and managed the "Meet in Nature" program in the Special Education Division - Ministry of Education, and the "Safe Place" resilience program that operated on behalf of resources with more than 12,000 kindergarten and school children after the Second Lebanon War.
Ronen has written and developed various programs, written articles and books and presented at conferences in Israel and abroad. He teaches in education departments at Tel Hai Colleges, Oranim and the Ono Academic Campus and abroad.
Ronen founded and directed the MA Program in Drama Therapy at the Academic College of Society and the Arts and directs the unique MA program in East Jerusalem on behalf of the Ono Academic Campus of Society and the Arts. AS THERAPY and the frontal and online "Creation Heart Therapy" conferences, conferences that have become a tradition.
In his edited books "The Work, the Heart of Therapy" and "Observing the Work to See the Soul" Ronen, together with senior Israeli therapists, present innovative models for therapy, evaluation and guidance in all areas of art therapy.
His latest and unique book Arts therapy in a Changing World presents theory and models for group work combining arts. It connects the clinical and community approach, nature therapy and arts therapy, conceptualizes the Performance Based Therapy approach and an applied framework for online arts therapy. The book offers new and interdisciplinary tools for developing resilience, flexibility and resources for dealing with uncertainty and crisis. This is the world's first book in the field of work and group therapy combining the arts.
Berger's doctoral dissertation has achieved, researched and presented the method of nature therapy: theory, models and ethics. He established training programs at Tel Hai College and Tel Aviv University and treatment programs at the Ministries of Education and Welfare. Ronen has written many articles, chapters in books and books, conducted conferences and teaches In Israel and abroad.
His book "The Healing Forest - Nature Therapy and Combining the Arts for the Care of Children After a Crisis", written with Prof. Molly Lahad after the Second Lebanon War, presents the world's theory and the first protocol in the field, studied and applied worldwide. The book was published in Hebrew, English and Chinese and is a text book in the field.
Berger's doctoral dissertation has achieved, researched and presented the method of nature therapy: theory, models and ethics. He established training programs at Tel Hai College and Tel Aviv University and treatment programs at the Ministries of Education and Welfare. Ronen has written many articles, chapters in books and books, conducted conferences and teaches In Israel and abroad.
Ronen established and managed the "Meet in Nature" program in the Special Education Division - Ministry of Education, t, the "Home in Nature" program for the Ministry of Welfare and the "Safe Place" resilience program that operated on behalf of more than 12,000 kindergarten and school children from special and regular education after the war Lebanon II.
His book "The Healing Forest - Nature Therapy and Combining the Arts for the Care of Children After a Crisis", written with Prof. Molly Lahad after the Second Lebanon War, presents the world's theory and the first protocol in the field, studied and applied worldwide. The book was published in Hebrew, English and Chinese and is an international textbook in the field.