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Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy: Integrating the Expressive Arts an

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Responding to the increased interest in the integration of expressive arts and ecotherapy, this book presents a nature based approach to expressive arts work. It provides an overview of the two fields, emphasizing how they can enrich and learn from each other, and highlights attitudes and practices in expressive arts that are particularly relevant to working with nature. This includes cultivating an aesthetic response to the earth, the relationship between beauty and sustainability, and lessons 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.
 
Market: Expressive arts students and expressive arts therapists interested in working with nature.
Part I. Beginning. Introduction. Part II. Moving In. 1. Expressive Arts and Ecotherapy: Shifting Paradigms. Part III. Insearch. 2. Stories from Indigenous Cultures. 3. Stories from Science. 4. Stories from Ecophilosophy. 5. Stories from Art. Part IV. Finding Voice. 6. Nature-Based Expressive Arts: Recovering Our Sense of Wonder. Part V. Bringing Art into Life. Appendices.
'A rare kind of text, a work of beauty, and a testament to the interconnections among all forms of life.'
- From the foreword by Corrine Glesne, author of 'Becoming Qualitative Researchers'
 
'Sally and Melia encourage us to trust the materials of nature, wherever and whatever we find, to help shape the curves and movements of a mutually informed dance of expression.'
- Per Espen Stoknes, author of 'What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Climate Change'
 
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