Myrto Zarokosta is dance movement therapist, dance artist and social anthropologist. Her work finds it´s base in a trans-disciplinary approach, using community dance, somatics, creative process and group dynamics. During the last 10 years, she has been working with many different populations in psychosocial support and non formal education, facilitating sessions and trainings. As a dance artist, she has created and participated in different performances between Greece and Spain. Currently, she is studying the body-oriented trauma therapy method of Somatic Experiencing and she is the founder of Corpografies association.

Dr. Hanna Poikonen is a senior researcher at the Social Brain Sciences lab of ETH Zurich. On 2019-2023, she conducted her postdoc training at Learning Sciences and Higher Education of ETH Zurich. By combining her background in biomedical engineering, neuroscience and dance, in 2018 Hanna pursued her doctoral degree at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki focusing on brain functions in professional dancers, musicians and novices when watching a video-recorded dance performance. She also studied the brain functions of audience when they experienced a live dance duet at the LIVELab of McMaster University in Canada. She has studied contemporary dance, postgraduate in art therapy at Metàfora, Barcelona, and conducted her artscience project at the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA). Since 2018, she is teaching globally her WiseMotion method on neuroscience and creative movement for educators, creative and healthcare professionals, higher executives, and people with a brain-related illness. Through WiseMotion, Hanna also partners in different EU projects, including DanceCARE.

Dr. Flavia Galassi is the developer of the DanceCARE project, researcher psychologist and co-manager for INRCA, Italy. She is a Dance Movement Therapist and Psychodynamic Expressive Psychotherapist since 2016, associated with Art Therapy Italiana. Since her training in psychology she has been interested in movement, art and healing, with her first thesis on Laban Movement Analysis in 2003. She has always explored and researched the best ways of healing according to the psycho-corporeal approach, and has carried out several national and international projects, leading expressive movement groups in various fields, such as psychiatry and pathological addictions, the prison environment, the integration context, adolescence and healthy ageing. She has always furthered her education through courses in both the artistic and health fields, e.g. psychosomatic mindfulness, body-mind centering, contact improvisation, polyvagal theory and neuropsychiatry, and theatre. She is also a nationally recognised yoga teacher. She has led DMT-based training for the wellbeing of healthcare staff at INRCA and with DanceCARE for the wellbeing of all those caring for the elderly with long-term care needs.

Andrea Tziorta studied Psychology (BSc) at Brunel University London. She then continued her studies with a post-graduate degree in Dance Movement Psychotherapy (MA) at Goldsmiths University of London. Today, she runs her private practice as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist in Cyprus working primarily with children and young adults. She also has ongoing collaborations with foundations where she offers group and individual sessions to adults with learning difficulties. Beyond her therapeutic work, she is also an educator, teaching psychology to senior classes in the A-level curriculum at the American Academy Larnaca high school. Since 2018, Andrea has been the Delegate of Cyprus for the European Association of Dance Movement Therapy (EADMT). Now, she is also a Coordinator of the Communication Working Group of the EADMT. She is the Communication Responsible for the EADMT in DanceCARE project.