New developments in expressive arts in therapy, education, social and ecological change, and research : the play of poiesis

This collection reflects on the theory and application of expressive arts today in therapy, education, research and social and ecological change. Bringing the understanding of expressive arts into its contemporary theoretical framework, the book reveals the expansion of the field from its initial focus on therapy alone into a diverse range of other areas of interest to therapists, educators, researchers and those interested in working for social and ecological change. The book also contains a selection of discursive writing, poetry and visual art, highlighting the importance of keeping artistic creativity at the heart of the field. With contributions from pioneering arts therapists, this will be vital reading for arts therapists and students in the field today. New Developments in Expressive Arts Therapy: The Play of Poiesis, edited by Ellen G. Levine and Stephen K. Levine Acknowledgments Preface by Stephen K. Levine Stuhl-leben by Brigitte Wanzenried The Poietics of Alterity by Stephen K. Levine Part I: Theory Pasture 6 by Shaun McNiff After by Sally Atkins 1. Cultivating Imagination by Shaun McNiff 2. The Essence in a Therapeutic Process, an Alternative Experience of Worlding? by Paolo J. Knill 3. Longing for Beauty and the Work: An Interview with Paolo Knill, conducted by Stephen K. Levine 4. Modality: A Phenomenological Concept for Expressive Arts by Jacques Stitelmann, Translated by Jackie Beaver 5. The Poietic Basis of Being: Thoughts on Expression and the Other Person Based on the Work of Merleau-Ponty by Part II: Therapy Nutcase Alarm by Rowesa Gordon Practicum on the Eating Disorders Ward: Sonnet 1 by Shara Claire 6. The Arts Work: The Process of Intermodal Decentering in Professional Conversations by Herbert Eberhart 7. The Question of Quality Art in Expressive Arts Therapy by Shaun McNiff 8. A Tango in the Ruins: Encounters with Beauty in a Harm Reduction Environment by Sabine Silberberg 9. Stepping into Locked Space: An Algorithmic Dialogue between Choreography and In-Patient Work by Rebekah Windmiller Rebekah Windmiller 10. The Garden of Praise and Lament: Expressive Arts Group Psychotherapy with Trauma Survivors in Exile by Melinda Ashley Meyer DeMott 11. Play, Art and Ritual: Working Therapeutically with Children and their Parents by Ellen G. Levine Part III: Education Untitled by Judy Nisenholt CHANGE in the AIR by Elizabeth McKim 12. Aesthetic Education: Learning through the Arts by Stephen K. Levine 13. Aesthetic Responsibility in Expressive Arts: Thoughts on Beauty, Responsibility and the New in the Education of Expressive Arts Professionals by Margo Fuchs Knill and Paolo J. Knill Margo Fuchs Knill and Paolo J. Knill 14. Education on the Edge: Acts of Balance by Elisabeth Hösli and Peter Wanzenried 15. Art Asylum: Exploring Otherness through Play and Art-Making by Ellen G. Levine 16. Artists in Community: The Black Mountain College and the White Mountain Graduate School by Sally Atkins Part IV: Social and Ecological Change Degradation and Preservation by Ellen G. Levine Cedar Fire Fragment by Judith Greer Essex 17. Community Art: Communal Art-Making to Build a Sense of Coherence by Paolo J. Knill 18. The Pulse of Humanity by Carrie MacLeod 19. What Do You Care About? Arts Therapies in Support of Civil Courage in a “World Gone Slightly Mad” by Rosemary Faire 20. Why Eco-Philosophy and Expressive Arts? by Per Espen Stoknes 21. Nature as a Work of Art: Towards a Poietic Ecology by Stephen K. Levine Part V: Research ROCK, from 4 perspectives (2004) by Kelly Lycan AMONG by Elizabeth McKim 22. The Open Space of Art-Based Research by Shaun McNiff 23. Crafting Maps, Attuning to Flesh, and Dancing the Radicant: Mobilizing the Expressive Arts and Arts-Based Research to do a Conceptual Translation of “Science as Usual” by Kelly Clark/Keefe, Jessica Gilway, and Emily Miller 24. Knowing Not-Knowing: Research as an Art-Analogue Process by Sabine Silberberg 25. Playing with Auschwitz: A Liminal Inquiry into Images of Evil by Lisa Herman Lisa Herman 26. Per-forming Home: Spinning New Scripts for Re-Search by Carrie MacLeod Cold Spell by Isabel Hayeur Two Poems by Margo Fuchs Knill List of Contributors Subject Index Author Index Blank Page "This collection reflects on the theory and application of expressive arts today in therapy, education, research and social and ecological change. Bringing the understanding of expressive arts into its contemporary theoretical framework, the book reveals the expansion of the field from its initial focus on therapy alone into a diverse range of other areas of interest to therapists, educators, researchers and those interested in working for social and ecological change. The book also contains a selection of discursive writing, poetry and visual art, highlighting the importance of keeping artistic creativity at the heart of the field. With contributions from pioneering arts therapists, this will be vital reading for arts therapists and students in thefield today."--Publisher's description With contributions from well-known, international arts therapists, this collection considers the development and expansion of the field of expressive arts. It covers new theoretical concepts and practice introduced in recent years and reflects on their relevance to the fields of therapy, education, research and social and ecological change.