Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy

19 Preface As we launch this book into the world, we do so with a blessing inspired by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (2005): May y ...

20 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY students and colleagues at Appalachian, EGS and other universities and training institut ...

21 Preface Sally Atkins Where I Am From I am from sycamore from cedar and sage from walnuts and witch hazel roots of mountain la ...

22 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY I’m from the tongue of the northwest wind licking the lingering leaves of beech weaving ...

PREFACE BY SALLY ATKINS 23 supervision and organizational development. In the 1980s, my colleagues in the Appalachian Expressive ...

24 Preface Melia Snyder Where I Am From I am from milkweed from monarchs and muscadine vines I am from the leaf resting on a fal ...

PREFACE BY MELIA SNYDER 25 My ancestors’ connection to the land was intimate, a relationship that was raw and real rather than p ...

26 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY The intrusion and constriction of Western medical and behavioral models into my work wit ...

PART I Beginning In Part I we introduce the book and its contents. We offer a preparation for the exploration of the ideas we pr ...

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29 Introduction We sit in circle silently returning to breath, our first prayer Inbreath, outbreath The literal way we are conne ...

30 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY The circle is open But unbroken. Sally Atkins and Melia Snyder This is a book about natu ...

INTRODUCTION 31 We choose to use poetic language as well as visual images to convey some of the stories we explore, especially w ...

32 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY with awareness of individual creative process as a part of the creative process of the w ...

INTRODUCTION 33 about pathology, about diagnosing and fixing what is broken. In our view therapy is salutogenic, focusing on hea ...

34 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY tell you something about stories... They aren’t just entertainment... They are all we ha ...

INTRODUCTION 35 Rhizomes are root-like horizontal underground stem systems that can produce shoots and root systems of new plant ...

36 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY in the formative forces of the continual creativity of the world (Richards 1973). Person ...

INTRODUCTION 37 The helping professions, too, have inherited a legacy of anthropocentrism. Largely divorced from body and Earth, ...

38 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY Buddhist scholar and deep ecologist Joanna Macy has long been an activist for building t ...