Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy

Nature-Based

Expressive

Arts Therapy

Integrating the Expressive

Arts and Ecotherapy

“A much-needed book that will greatly contribute to expressive arts

therapy. Our world urgently needs us to start practicing and living

the ideas of sustainability and care laid out by Sally and Melia.”

—José Miguel Calderon, PhD, Director of TAE Perú

Sally Atkins is Core Faculty of the European Graduate School, Switzerland

and Professor Emerita and Founder of the Expressive Arts Therapy Program

at Appalachian State University, NC.

Melia Snyder directs the Expressive Arts Therapy Certificate at Appalachian

State University, NC and teaches at the European Graduate School, Switzerland.

http://www.jkp.com Forewords by Corrine Glesne and Per Espen Stoknes

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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Sally Atkins and Melia Snyder

Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy

Sally Atkins

and

Melia Snyder

“A much-needed book that will greatly contribute to expressive arts

therapy. Our world urgently needs us to start practicing and living

the ideas of sustainability and care laid out by Sally and Melia.”

—José Miguel Calderon, PhD, Director of TAE Perú

Responding to increased interest in the integration of expressive arts and

ecotherapy, this book presents a nature-based approach to expressive arts

work and emphasizes how the two fields can enrich and learn from one

another. It highlights attitudes and practices in expressive arts that are

particularly relevant to working with nature, such as cultivating an aesthetic

response to the earth and learning 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.

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