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ecological sustainability

and beauty 69–70

practices 41

ecology 78–9

of relationships 79–81

ecophilosophy 89

see also ecological philosophy

“ecopoiesis” (Stoknes) 89–90, 118

ecopsychology 52

Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing

the Mind (Roszak et al ) 52

ecoresilience 121

“ecosophy” (Guattari) 55

ecosystem stability 83

ecotherapy 46, 51–5

definitions 51

emergence of 51

and expressive arts 40–1, 45–61

key tenets of 53–5

metaphors for community and

interconnectedness 34–5

theoretical groundings 52, 53

Ecozoic Era 87, 88

Enlightenment 66, 67

environmental problems 90, 131

challenges for 36–8

and human health 52

and resilience 120–1

and self-regulation 83

see also ecological and social crises

epistemology 87

ethic of care 130–4

evolution 86–7

expressive arts 46

definitions 32

and ecotherapy 40–1, 45–61

emergence of 47–8

intermodal nature of 47

key tenets of 48–50

professional associations 48

registration 48

symposiums and conferences 46–7

First Nation People 96

frameworks for conceptualizing creative

processes 39–42

Frankl, V. E. 119–20

French, Sharon 106–7

Fuchs, M. N. 47, 69, 71–2

Gablick, S. 64, 65–6, 67–8

Gaia Theory (Lovelock) 82–3

Gendler, R. J. 68

General Systems Theory 79–80

gift offerings 63–4

goals of therapy 58

Golding, W. 82

Gomes, M. E. 52

“the Great Conversation” (Berry) 87–8,

133

“the Great Turning Initiative” (Macy)

92–3, 133

Guattari, F. 35, 55

Hadley, S. 37

Handmaid Life, A (Coperthwaite and

Saltmarsh) 123

healing practices 131–2, 132–4

and expressive arts 48

through nature 53–4

Henry, Andrew 102

Hernandez, P. 121

Highwater, J. 97

Hill, K. C. 53

Hillman, J. 33, 52, 53, 56, 71–2, 83, 90

holy 33, 129

hope see active hope

Hopi people (Arizona) 53, 101

human systems 80–1

humans, evolutionary history 86–7

Hyde, L. 99

imagination 50, 71–2, 106–7

indigenous peoples 41–2, 95–111

beliefs and practices 103–8

ceremony and ritual 108–10

challenges of understanding/

interpreting 97

definitions and terminology 95, 96–8

exploitation and misunderstanding

97–8

personal encounters with individual

cultures 99–103

information overload 36

integrative arts therapy 32

interconnectedness 34–5, 60, 93

and the aesthetic response 48

poiesis of the air 89–90