Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): Encounters, Paths and Challenges in Troubled Times. Part 4

Editor's introduction

The year 2026 marks two significant milestones in the life of our professional community. We are looking forward to the third annual conference. It will take place in Canterbury in October 2026. We look forward to welcoming colleagues and audience members interested in bibliotherapy, poetry therapy, therapeutic writing and art therapies.
This issue celebrates the first anniversary of our journal and represents the shared goals, meaningful work and values of the European biblio/poetry therapy community. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the authors and reviewers who have volunteered their time to contribute to the journal over the past year.
Although we still produce the journal on a voluntary basis and receive no financial support, we believe that maintaining open access is important in order to make the journal available to a wider audience.
We aim to create balanced issues in terms of professional level, topics, and the number of selected, peer-reviewed articles. According to our plans, three issues will be published this year. The first will feature the final selected articles from the Budapest conference, while the next two will showcase contributions from the 2025 annual conference in Finland.

This issue presents new theoretical perspectives and methods, followed by practical papers introducing innovative narrative practices and bibliotherapy-based well-being programmes from Belgium, Italy, Iran, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, France, Poland, and Croatia.

We wish you an inspirational and enriching reading experience.

Judit Béres

(Editor-in-Chief)