Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy

EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND ECOTHERAPY 59 The following clinical case example illustrates the application of some of the core tenets of ...

60 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY Nature-based expressive arts as a story of belonging Rejecting the dominant narrative of ...

EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND ECOTHERAPY 61 example of nature-based expressive arts. In presenting a nature-based approach to expressive a ...

62 CHAPTER TWO Stories from the Arts I asked myself, what is beauty. I asked myself, what is love. I asked myself, what is reali ...

STORIES FROM THE ARTS 63 Of the teacher who calls us To honour the teacher who arrives In ourselves. Today I find shelter In thi ...

64 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY most recent excursion Laurel often exclaimed at each discovery, “Neena, it is SO beautif ...

STORIES FROM THE ARTS 65 walls. The images were symbols of nature: animals, plants, people and cosmic events. All around the wor ...

66 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY times people are so busy getting on to the next thing that they don’t have time to refle ...

STORIES FROM THE ARTS 67 Separation of the arts Art historian Larry Shiner (2001) points out that art as we understand it in Wes ...

68 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY spectatorial orientation and the critical discourse that go along with Western concepts ...

STORIES FROM THE ARTS 69 Beauty as soul nourishment In the expressive arts field beauty is seen as soul nourishment (Knill et al ...

70 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY to ecological systems, but rarely on beauty. They emphasize that sustainability requires ...

STORIES FROM THE ARTS 71 quality of things but the normal pattern of nature and the most desirable form of experience. Art is a ...

72 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY and the bodily response of the senses in engaging the anima mundi , the world soul or th ...

STORIES FROM THE ARTS 73 After We have cracked the categories Analyzed the knowing Decentered, deconstructed The world Art and b ...

74 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY Summary In this chapter we have situated nature-based expressive arts in its relationshi ...

PART III Insearch In Part III we explore stories that have shaped our understanding of our human place in the living world. Firs ...

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77 CHAPTER THREE Stories from Ecological Sciences It is winter as I (Sally) write this. Snow is blanketing the mountains, and ou ...

78 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY what is alive dissolves the flatness of our language what is alive wants to crawl out of ...