Sally Atkins & Melia Snyder 
Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy [PDF ebook] 
Integrating the Expressive Arts and Ecotherapy

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.

Innehållsförteckning

Forewords by Corrine Glesne and Per Espen Stoknes. Preface. Part I. Beginning. Introduction. Part II. Moving In. 1. Expressive Arts and Ecotherapy: Shifting Paradigms. 2. Stories from the Arts. Part III. Insearch. 3. Stories from Ecological Science. 4. Stories from Ecological Philosophy. 5. Stories from Indigenous Cultures. Part IV. Finding Voice. 6. Nature-Based Expressive Arts: Cultivating an Aesthetic Response to the World. Part V. Bringing Art Into Life: Appendices. Appendix A: The Nature of the Body. Lauren E. Atkins. Appendix B. The Pen and the Path. Melia Snyder. Appendix C. Cherokee Drumstick Ritual. Keith M. Davis. Appendix D. Fire by Friction, Humility and Attunement: Justin S. Cantalini and Erin Rice Cantalini.

Om författaren

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 is the coordinator of the Expressive Arts Therapy Certificate at Appalachian State University.