42 NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
teachings come from scholars of indigenous cultures as well as
from personal experience with elders, teachers and artists from the
Quechua people of Bolivia and Peru, from the Hopi, Zuni and Navajo
people of the American Southwest, and from the Eastern Band of the
Cherokee people of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.Part IV: Finding Voice
CHAPTER SIX: NATURE-BASED EXPRESSIVE ARTS:
CULTIVATING AN AESTHETIC RESPONSE TO THE WORLD
In the summary section, we review and integrate the major concepts
presented and offer discoveries made during the writing of the
book that continue to shape our thinking and practice of nature-
based expressive arts. We suggest how the ideas discussed may
inform our professional practice and our personal lives. We discuss
everyday attitudes and practices that embody an awareness of the
sacredness of life and an aesthetic response to the natural world. We
hope to encourage practitioners to continue to question unconscious
assumptions that underlie our destructive behaviors toward the Earth
and to reclaim respect for our human interrelationship with nature as
an important aspect of all expressive arts work.Part V: Bringing Art into Life
APPENDICES
The appendices offer examples of application of nature-based
expressive arts theory to professional practice. Each of the four
appendices offers a suggested structure for a nature-based expressive
arts activity. While all activities are intermodal, each focuses on a
particular modality of nature-based expressive arts.