Healing Through Art

Healing Through Art
Author: Nadia Ferrara
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2004
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780773527218

Ferrara, who is accepted as a healer in Cree communities, shows how art therapy became a ritual for her patients, noting that Crees often associate art therapy and their experience in the bush and arguing that both constitute a place for them to re-affirm their notions of self. By including patient drawings and letting us hear Cree voices, "Healing through Art" gives us a sense of the reality of everyday Cree experience. This innovative book transcends disciplinary boundaries and makes a significant contribution to anthropology, Native Studies, and clinical psychology.

Healing with Art and Soul

Healing with Art and Soul
Author: Kathy Luethje
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1443803081

This fascinating collection of essays contains a variety of perspectives about the use of expressive arts for facilitating physical and emotional healing. Each author within brings a fresh approach and unique experiences to their writing. Within these pages, you will find many ideas for the use of the arts and can learn how to engage the inner layers of the self that allow natural healing processes of the body and soul to flourish. When we fully engage an art modality, we find ourselves in a place in our consciousness that could be called 'healingspace,' where we feel ourselves whole and re-member ourselves as well. From psychic trauma to physical illness, dis-ease of many kinds may be addressed through the various techniques discussed here. The tools offered by some authors are population specific and age appropriate, while several authors have given us the philosophical underpinnings for it all. While the authors within represent the grassroots voices of this new and rapidly expanding field, several of them have developed their own methods for using the arts, and have thriving practices. Our approach is wholistic. Music, visual arts, movement, dance, and poetry are discussed as separate modalities and in combination with one another in a process or flow. The reader will engage in our experiences with these modalities as they have been lived. The complementary CD that accompanies this book will allows the listener to have a full sound experience of toning. If a rationale is needed for establishing arts programs in medical centers or other health facilities, it can be found here. The book offers tools for self development and for group facilitation. Those wanting to expand their healing practice through the use of the arts will find the book to be a faithful guide. Anyone wishing for a fuller understanding of how the arts may work to facilitate healing will find much food for thought within these pages.

Healing with the Arts

Healing with the Arts
Author: Michael Samuels
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1451696833

Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities. From musicians in hospitals to quilts on the National Mall—art is already healing people all over the world. It is helping veterans recover, improving the quality of life for cancer patients, and bringing communities together to improve their neighborhoods. Now it’s your turn. Through art projects, including visual arts, dance, writing, and music, along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing with the Arts gives you the tools to address what you need to heal in your life—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. An acclaimed twelve-week program lauded by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts gives you the ability to heal your family and your friends, as well as communities where you’ve always wanted to make a difference. Internationally known leaders in the arts in medicine movement, Michael Samuels, MD, and Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD, show you how to use creativity and self-expression to pave the artist’s path to healing.

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Healing with the Arts (embedded videos)
Author: Michael Samuels
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1476754551

Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities. Acclaimed by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts brings a tried and true program out of the medical field and into your home and neighborhood. Improve your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health in just 12 weeks. Whether you are ill, suffering from emotional trauma, or looking to unite your community, the arts become the conduit to restore your wellness and thrive in life. Dr. Michael Samuels and Dr. Mary Rockwood Lane created and developed this unique and powerful process to help anyone heal. Through innovative art projects—from the visual arts, movement and dance, writing, and music—along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, readers learn to get in touch with their inner muse and inner healer. Based on years of research and experience in the medical community, Healing with the Arts sets the stage for a more meaningful and healthier existence.

Heal With Art Therapy

Heal With Art Therapy
Author: Tina Ashok Dhingra
Publisher: Tina Ashok Dhingra
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2024-07-02
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

Pablo Picasso once suggested that everyone begins life with an inherent artist's spirit. The challenge lies in preserving this creative essence as we transition into adulthood. Reflecting on the past, it is evident how deeply intertwined creativity was in everyday life. Women were the master creators, knitting intricate sweaters, tailoring clothes, jewelry pieces, and decoration items, and crafting homemade edibles like pickles, chutneys, chips, nachos, and jams. Their hands breathed life into their creations, and their pride echoed in words, "I have made them." Similarly, men would mold wheels for carts, among other things, beaming with the same sense of accomplishment. These everyday acts of creation brought them closer to their souls and ignited a distinct joy. Fast-forward to the present and this pleasure of creation seems to be dwindling. The influx of ready-made solutions has made human hands idle. Our connection with the pure joy of creating something and its unique satisfaction is vanishing swiftly in this era of convenience. However, there is an urgent need for us to rekindle our bond with creativity. Creativity mustn't be pursued as a profession but be embraced as a conduit for pure pleasure and self-expression. Engaging in activities that reconnect us with our core is essential, allowing our souls to come alive. Remarkably, a flourishing creative spirit manifests a quiet mind, and anger seems to recede. It can be interpreted that anger is often an indication of unchanneled creative energy. Let's remember the therapeutic power of creativity, too. Art Therapy has shown promising effects in alleviating symptoms related to pain and anxiety. It's time we valued creativity as a hobby, a therapeutic practice, and a soulful journey that enriches our lives. Let's keep the artist within us alive and thrive in the beautiful chaos of creation.

Healing Through the Arts for Non-Clinical Practitioners

Healing Through the Arts for Non-Clinical Practitioners
Author: Bopp, Jenny
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2018-09-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1522559825

Time and time again the arts have been called on to provide respite and relief from fear, anxiety, and pain in clinical medicinal practices. As such, it is vital to explore how the use of the arts for emotional and mental healing can take place outside of the clinical realm. Healing Through the Arts for Non-Clinical Practitioners is an essential reference source that examines and describes arts-based interventions and experiences that support the healing process outside of the medical field. Featuring research on topics such as arts-based interventions and the use of writing, theatre, and embroidery as methods of healing, this book is ideally designed for academicians, non-clinical practitioners, educators, artists, and rehabilitation professionals.

An Expressive Arts Approach to Healing Loss and Grief

An Expressive Arts Approach to Healing Loss and Grief
Author: Irene Renzenbrink
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-06-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1787752798

Drawing on expertise in both expressive arts and grief counselling, this book highlights the use of expressive arts therapeutic methods in confronting and healing grief and bereavement. Establishing a link between these two approaches, it widens our understanding of loss and grief. With personal and professional insight, Renzenbrink illuminates the healing and restorative power of creative arts therapies, as well as addressing the impact of communion with others and the role that expressive arts can play in community change. Covering a broad understanding of grief, the discussion incorporates migration and losing one's home, chronic illness and natural disasters, highlighting the breadth of types of loss and widening our perceptions of this. Grief specialists are given imaginative and nourishing tools to incorporate into their practice and better support their clients. An invaluable resource to expand understanding of grief and explore the power of expressive arts to heal both communities and individuals.

Healing and Medicine

Healing and Medicine
Author: Paul Dieppe
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2023-12-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 100381686X

Healing is on many people’s minds today. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and a host of other disruptions and disasters, many of us feel that we need healing – in our personal lives, for the environment and for our planet. But healing is rarely defined and is not an accepted part of medicine in the West. This book examines the relationship between healing and medicine through the eyes of an academic physician who changed his interests from biomedical research to healing late in his career in medicine. It is based on his experiences and stories of his encounters with patients, practitioners and others for whom healing has had a particular significance, as well as his rigorous research into the subject. A central theme of the book is that modern medicine needs to be more pluralistic in its approach to health and accept that spirituality and healing techniques have roles to play alongside scientific medicine, which currently has its base in materialism alone.

Self-Expression through Art and Drumming

Self-Expression through Art and Drumming
Author: Jen Mank
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2020-12-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 178450310X

This concise guide explains the theory behind drumming for therapy, as well as giving practical advice on facilitating and leading drum circles. The book explains why drumming is therapeutic, offers hands-on guidance for using drums in group therapy and details specific techniques to lead to increased engagement. Incorporating art therapy into drum circles, it provides step-by-step instructions on making and painting a multi-tonal drum from scratch. Emphasis is also placed on how to create a therapeutic or safe place while conducting a drum circle and making art.

Reaching and Teaching Students with Special Needs Through Art

Reaching and Teaching Students with Special Needs Through Art
Author: Beverly Levett Gerber
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2024-09-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1040014216

This second edition of Reaching and Teaching Students with Special Needs Through Art is written for art educators, special educators, and those who value the arts for students with special needs. It builds on teachers’ positive responses to the first edition, and now combines over 700 years of the educational experience of arts and special educators who share their art lessons, behavior management strategies, and classroom stories. The revised second edition provides updated chapters addressing students with emotional/behavioral disabilities, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, and visual and hearing impairments. The newly revised second edition includes chapters on students with autism spectrum disorder, preschool students, and students experiencing trauma. All chapters have been updated to include current definitions and language, recommended teaching strategies, art lesson adaptations, behavior management strategies, and references to related chapters. Follow-up activities are provided for further insights into each group of students. A new summary chapter connects how the authors’ collaborations resulted in changes to two professional organizations. Since the first edition, many of the featured authors established the new Division of Visual and Performing Arts Education (DARTS) at the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) and earlier, formed a new National Art Education Association (NAEA) Interest group—Special Needs in Art Education (SNAE), now Arts in Special Education (ASE). This edition is ideal for preservice arts methods courses and education courses on accessibility and inclusion at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It continues to offer current yet proven best practices for reaching and teaching this ever-important population of students through the arts.