ABSTRACT
Several rock outcroppings reveal rune markings and carved, cup-like shapes used to hold food offerings to the Viking gods and goddesses. In a tiny agricultural village of a few hundred Swedish citizens, there is a kiosk, a cafe with a gas pump, a primary school, and a church that is nearly a thousand years old. Refugees and asylum seekers began moving to the village to await the Swedish Migration Agency’s decision on their resettlement and residency status. Art therapists have an ethical responsibility to provide interventions with care. Some assessments and approaches did not help the refugees; others could be detrimental. A few retired primary school teachers offered the refugees an informal introductory class in the Swedish language and culture. The teachers had had no prior experience with refugees or asylum seekers and had never taught Swedish to adults or as a second language.
