Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy

STORIES FROM ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES 79 fields of study emerging at this time. In this chapter we explore stories from contemporary ...

80 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY phenomena (such as a family, an organization, the human body or an ecosystem) to its com ...

STORIES FROM ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES 81 multilayered relationships, to see the wholeness of the universe, “the pattern that connects ...

82 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY humans, have at some level the capability of ordering. Our ways of ordering our lives he ...

STORIES FROM ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES 83 understanding our planet. Like the Apollo photo of Earth from space, this image of Earth as ...

84 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY the process” (McNiff 1998, p.4), to trust in the possibilities of natural resilience in ...

85 CHAPTER FOUR Stories from Ecological Philosophy Today we pass through haze and snow dust Blown along the 45th parallel, halfw ...

86 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY about ourselves and the Earth. We discuss the story of the unfolding of the universe and ...

STORIES FROM ECOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY 87 Swimme and Berry (1992) warn that we are coming to the end of the Cenozoic Era of Earth’s ...

88 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY than human world. We have lost the understanding of ourselves as integral participants i ...

STORIES FROM ECOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY 89 the many-voiced landscape” (Abram 1996, p.ix). Abram calls us to remember “a wisdom older ...

90 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY small wind that is a part of the large wind that surrounds us. Stoknes calls us to reawa ...

STORIES FROM ECOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY 91 Ecophilosophers suggest ways to think differently as well as ways to embrace paradigm chan ...

92 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of ...

STORIES FROM ECOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY 93 The world is alive. The Earth is our larger body, not our supply house and sewer. As huma ...

94 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY to the healing of the world. She explains that this is a place of holy truth-telling. Sh ...

95 CHAPTER FIVE Stories from Indigenous Cultures We close our insearch with a return to the wisdom of ancient and indigenous tra ...

96 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY our personal experience with these cultures have helped to shape our thinking about natu ...

STORIES FROM INDIGENOUS CULTURES 97 groups, each with unique and individual histories, cultures and languages (Brown 1992). In i ...

98 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY 2003). Centuries of broken treaties and exploitation of Native Americans have characteri ...