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Responding to the increased interest in the integration of
expressive arts and ecotherapy, this book presents a nature based
approach to expressive arts work. It provides an overview of the
two fields, emphasizing how they can enrich and learn from each
other, and highlights attitudes and practices in expressive arts
that are particularly relevant to working with nature. This
includes cultivating an aesthetic response to the earth, the
relationship between beauty and sustainability, and lessons about
art and nature from indigenous cultures. Four suggested structures
for a nature based expressive arts activity - including writing,
body, and ritual centered - are provided in the appendices.
What are the basic attitudes, values, and practices that are
essential for effective work with the expressive arts? This book
explores the answer to that question. The authors examine in depth
the concepts of 'presence' - a way of 'being' - and 'process' - an
open and trusting way of working - in the professional helping
relationship and in the making of art. They introduce readers to
the premise of the 'uniqueness of persons' that underpins these
ideas, and look at how to realize them in practice. Diverse
experiences are also shared of using the arts in group and
individual work in a variety of settings, from team building and
education to counseling, psychotherapy and supervision. This book
is a comprehensive, foundational guide for all practitioners who
use the expressive arts as a way of facilitating learning, growth,
healing, and change, including expressive arts therapists and
students, counsellors, coaches, and other helping professionals.
With its clear structure and straight forward style, the book is
appropriate also for beginners in these professional fields.
Poetry is increasingly used in therapy, and it already occupies a
central place in expressive arts therapies. This book is the first
to explicitly combine theory and practice from the field of
expressive arts with poetry and poetics. The book offers both a
guide and poetic encouragement for using poetry in expressive arts
work. Within this arts context, poetry is offered as a way to
create hope and confidence, providing clients with a platform for
healing, reconciliation, problem solving, and personal and
professional development. Each chapter uses examples of poetry to
illustrate the ideas of the chapter. With an outstanding
contribution to the field of expressive arts theory and practice,
this book is essential for people wanting to use an integrative
arts-based approach to help their clients build resilience and
foster sustainable, positive change in their lives.
This collection reflects on the theory and application of
expressive arts today in therapy, education, research and social
and ecological change. Bringing the understanding of expressive
arts into its contemporary theoretical framework, the book reveals
the expansion of the field from its initial focus on therapy alone
into a diverse range of other areas of interest to therapists,
educators, researchers and those interested in working for social
and ecological change. The book also contains a selection of
discursive writing, poetry and visual art, highlighting the
importance of keeping artistic creativity at the heart of the
field. With contributions from pioneering arts therapists, this
will be vital reading for arts therapists and students in the field
today.
The field of expressive arts is closely tied to the work of
therapeutic change. As well as being beneficial for the individual
or small group, expressive arts therapy has the potential for a
much wider impact, to inspire social action and bring about social
change. The book's contributors explore the transformative power of
the arts therapies in areas stricken by conflict, political unrest,
poverty or natural disaster and discuss how and why expressive arts
works. They look at the ways it can be used to engage community
consciousness and improve social conditions whilst taking into
account the issues that arise within different contexts and
populations. Leading expressive arts therapy practitioners give
inspiring accounts of their work, from using poetry as a tool in
trauma intervention with Iraqi survivors of war and torture, to
setting up storytelling workshops to aid the integration of
Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel. Offering visionary
perspectives on the role of the arts in inspiring change at the
community or social level, this is essential reading for students
and practitioners of creative and expressive arts therapies, as
well as psychotherapists, counsellors, artists and others working
to effect social change.
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