On Saturday, October 4, 2025, we celebrated together. MURMO turned ten years old, and the day was exactly what a birthday should be: warm, welcoming, intimate, and filled with love.

From 9 a.m. until 7 p.m., both MURMO and the Átkelő Gallery opened their doors to visitors. Through ten different workshops — ranging from the canine-assisted therapeutic program “Vakkantás,” to experiential children’s drama sessions, to a parent support group focusing on eating disorders — we offered insight into the way we work. Rather than presenting loud or performative demonstrations, we invited people into genuine encounters: to experience, to feel, to ask questions, and to spend time with us.

Because this is the essence of MURMO. Over the past ten years, this is perhaps what we have learned most deeply: without personal connection, there can be no real encounter, and without encounter, there is no reason for us to be present. As expressed in the essay “One’s Own Wings,” healing is not a matter of technique — it is a matter of presence, acceptance, and safety.

At 6 p.m., the exhibition presenting a decade of work by the Artézi Art Therapy Workshop opened at the Átkelő Gallery. These were works created not out of pressure to perform, but from deep inner necessity. Much like an artesian well breaking through to the surface — “under great pressure, the water bursts upward like a fountain” — unconscious contents emerge in the same way: crystal clear and authentically true to the self. We are deeply grateful for the words of Orvos-Tóth Noémi, whose presence and opening remarks brought additional light and depth to the exhibition.

Thank you.

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Saturday. To those who asked questions, created, listened, and shared their stories. To all those who have placed their trust in us over the past ten years — families, children, parents, colleagues, and supporters alike.

Within our art therapy groups, the Lotilko program, and individual therapeutic work, our goal is not to raise artists, but to help people discover their own wings. As Gabriel García Márquez wrote: “I give a child wings, and then I teach them how to fly with their own.”

Even after ten years, this remains our mission. Even after ten years, we continue to be guided by the belief that the path toward genuine and lasting change begins with deeper understanding.