Dr. Ronen Berger
Ronen Berger, Ph.D., is a dreamer, investigator, inventor and executer. He is a senior Arts and Nature Therapist, lecture, supervisor, trainer, researcher and manager. He initiated, created and managed the Nature Therapy program, Tel Aviv University (2009-2015), and the Drama Therapy MA programs for Arabs and Jews, Ono Academic College, Israel (2015-2022). He established varied Nature Therapy and Arts Therapy programs for the Israeli Ministries of Education, Health and Defense as well as large scale programs for associations such as The Community Stress Prevention Center, One in 9, and Access Israel as well as for business corporations such Shufersal (the largest Israeli Supermarket chain stores) and AbbVie – a global Pharma company. Ronen also trains and supervises School principals and educational staff, helping them to create and develop holistic and relevant pedagogy.
Ronen's Ph.D. and research conceptualized and developed the Nature Therapy method followed by many practical theories and methods for intervention, assessment and supervision in Nature Therapy and Arts Therapy. They were published in many articles and 9 books he wrote and co-wrote, including 5 protocol books, "The Healing Forest" and the "Protocols for Copping and Hope" that were translated to 5 languages and are used internationally.
Berger is a world known expert in the fields of Nature Therapy, Arts Therapy and Play Therapy as well as in the fields of Community Resiliency and post-disaster community and group art-based treatments. His work is creative, integrative and dynamic, incorporates theory and practice. It integrates elements from his background as an Ecologist, studying and protecting wolves in the north of Israel, as well as in dance, theater and performance.
He currently manages the Play Therapy program at Ono Academic College, the resiliency and post trauma programs for children and youth at the Community Stress Prevention Center, and the art-based community treatment program for families dealing with loss for the Ministry of Defense, Israel. Berger is also is a visiting professor at Thessaloniki and Ioannina Universities, Greece, and well as in Prague University, Czech Republic.
Ronen was born in June 1972. He has two children and spends his life between Israel, Greece and Europe. He enjoys being in nature, dancing, playing and doing arts, wind surfing and cooking.
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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.