Nature-based expressive arts therapy : integrating the expressive arts and ecotherapy / Sally Atkins and Melia Snyder.

  • Atkins, Sally S.
Date:
2018
  • Books

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Description

"Integrating the Expressive Arts and Ecotherapy. Sally Atkins and Melia Snyder. Forewords by Corrine Glesne and Per Espen Stoknes. This book integrates the fields of expressive arts and ecotherapy to present a nature based approach to expressive arts work. It highlights attitudes and practices in expressive arts that are particularly relevant to working with nature, including cultivating an aesthetic response to the earth and the relationship between beauty and sustainability"--From publisher.

Publication/Creation

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018.

Physical description

176 pages ; 23 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Corrine Clesne -- Foreword / Per Espen Stoknes -- Introduction -- Expressive Arts and Ecotherapy : Shifting Paradigms -- Stories from the Arts -- Stories from Ecological Sciences -- Stories from Ecological Philosophy -- Stories from Indigenous Cultures -- Nature-Based Expressive Arts : Cultivating an Aesthetic Response to the World -- Appendix A : the nature of the body / Lauren E. Atkins -- Appendix B : the pen and the path / Melia Snyder -- Appendix C : Cherokee drumstick ritual : helping children to find their beat on Mother Eart / Keith M. Davis -- Appendix D : Fire by friction, humility and attunement / Justin S. Cantalini.

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ISBN

  • 9781785927263
  • 1785927264