Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy

STORIES FROM INDIGENOUS CULTURES 99 Personal encounters with indigenous cultures Ideas gained from our encounters with indigenou ...

100 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY and for ourselves. We have shared many reciprocal gifts of art making, story sharing an ...

STORIES FROM INDIGENOUS CULTURES 101 THE HOPI PEOPLE The Hopi people live atop three high desert mesas called simply First Mesa, ...

102 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY preserved despite the occasional disapproval of the Catholic bishop at the time or the ...

STORIES FROM INDIGENOUS CULTURES 103 The Cherokee people The Cherokee people are a traditionally Earth-based culture whose membe ...

104 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY practices and beliefs and our thinking about the theories and practices of a nature-ori ...

STORIES FROM INDIGENOUS CULTURES 105 mitakuye oyasin , from the Lakota language, translated variously as “all my relatives,” “al ...

106 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY view of indigenous communities. This is community as inclusive of all persons as well o ...

STORIES FROM INDIGENOUS CULTURES 107 outdoor drama, The Anasazi. The story of the sunflower seeds was told to us that evening. T ...

108 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY 5. Ritual and ceremony Ceremony is an integral part of daily and yearly life in the ind ...

STORIES FROM INDIGENOUS CULTURES 109 CEREMONY IN ZUNI At Zuni: The Guard of the First Kiva What are you doing here? The voice is ...

110 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY To the sound of bare feet Coming near The words touch the place Where the dark eyes sof ...

STORIES FROM INDIGENOUS CULTURES 111 Summary Stories from indigenous cultures tell us that the arts belong to everyone in the se ...

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PART IV Finding Voice In this part we offer a final chapter, interweaving ideas from the previous chapters to give voice to a na ...

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115 CHAPTER SIX Nature-Based Expressive Arts Cultivating an Aesthetic Response to the World Homecoming In the saddle of the Sang ...

116 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY personal and theoretical stories we have explored have overlapping and intertwining the ...

NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS 117 are the following basic concepts: a worldview of interrelationship, ecological presence, ecopoi ...

118 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY Individual human consciousness exists in concert with the intelligence of the world and ...