Expert in Art-Based Community Resiliency Development and Senior Arts Therapist
Ronen Berger is a senior arts and nature therapist, lecturer, researcher, author and supervisor. He initiated, created and managed the Nature Therapy program at Tel Aviv University (2009–2015) and the Drama Therapy master’s programs for Arabs and Jews at Ono Academic College, Israel (2015–2022). He has established various Nature Therapy and Arts Therapy programs for the Israeli Ministries of Education and Defense, as well as large-scale programs for associations and N.G.O.s. He also trains and supervises school principals, helping them to develop creative pedagogies.
His Ph.D. and research conceptualized and developed the Nature Therapy method, followed by many theories and methods in Nature Therapy and Arts Therapy. He has published numerous articles and authored or co-authored 12 books.
Dr. Berger is a world-renowned expert in the fields of Nature Therapy, Arts Therapy and Play Therapy, as well as community resiliency and post-disaster community and group art-based treatments. His work integrates elements from his background as an ecologist, dancer and performer.
He currently manages the Play Therapy program at Ono Academic College, national resiliency post-trauma programs for children and youth at the Community Stress Prevention Center, and an art therapy program for families dealing with loss for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. He is also a visiting professor at Thessaloniki and Ioannina universities in Greece.
Born in 1972, he has two children and spends his life between Israel and Greece.
