Ecopoiesis

Stephen K. Levine, Ph.D., D.S.Sc., REAT, is Emeritus Professor at York University (Toronto) and Founding Dean of Doctoral Studies in Expressive Arts Therapy at the European Graduate School (Switzerland). He is the author, co-author or editor of many books in the field of expressive arts therapy, including Philosophy of Expressive Arts Therapy: Poiesis and the Therapeutic Imagination (2019). He is the founding editor of the journal, POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts & Communication, co-editor of the journal, Ecopoiesis: Eco-HumanTheory and Practice, co-founder of IEATA (International Expressive Arts Therapy Association), and co-founder of The Create Institute in Toronto. Alexander Kopytin, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, St. Petersburg Academy of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education; Chair, Russian Art Therapy Association. Author of more than 200 publications in the field of art therapy, medical psychology, ecopsychology, ecotherapy, including Ecological and Environmental Approaches in Art Therapy (Moscow: Kogito-Center, 2019), Clinical Art Psychotherapy with War Veterans (New York: Nova Publishers, 2016), Green Studio: nature and the arts in therapy (New York: Nova Publishers, 2016) Environmental expressive therapies: Nature- assisted theory and practice (New York: Routledge / Taylor & Francis, 2017). Founding Executive Editor of the web-based journal, Ecopoiesis: Eco-Human Theory and Practice.

Contents
Shaun McNiff
Foreword

Alexander Kopytin
INTRODUCTION

Part One. In search of the eco-human paradigm in expressive arts, therapy, and education: theory, methodology, concepts

Sally Atkins
The AWAKENING ROAR OF BEAUTY

Levine, Stephen K.
ECOPOIESIS: TOWARDS A POIETIC ECOLOGY

Kopytin, Alexander
NATURE-ASSISTED CREAYIVE ARTS THERAPIES AND THE PARADIGM CHANGE: WHAT ARTS THERAPISTS CAN DO IN THE FACE OF NEW GLOBAL CHALLENGES

Madeline Rugh
PAYING ATTENTION: NATURE, ART AND AWARENESS

Varvara Sidorova
CULTURE AND NATURE: THE PLAY OF ECOPOIESIS

Part Two. Integrating ecological and sustainable development perspectives in expressive/creative arts therapies practice with individuals, groups, and communities

Beverley A'Court
WANDERING THE BEAUTIFUL TRAIL: ECOPOIESIS IN ECOLOGICAL ART THERAPY
Eliza Sweeney

Eliza Sweeney
SOLASTALGIA, SENSE AND THERAPEUTIC ECO-SCENOGRAPHY

Alexey Lebedev and Alexander Kopytin
ECOLOGICAL/NATURE-ASSISTED ART THERAPY WITH WAR VETERANS:
HOW NATURE CAN HEAL THE TRAUMA OF WAR

Pamela Whitaker
WALKING THE COMMONPLACE OF COMMEMORATION

Monica Carpendale
RE-IMAGING ART THERAPY IN THE GLOBAL CRISIS: STORM CLOUDS AND SILVER LININGS

Gracelynn Chung-Yan Lau
CORONAVIRUS AS A RITE OF PASSAGE: FINDING CURES FOR "COLONIALVIRUS" THROUGH EXPRESSIVE ARTS-BASED RESEARCH

Ruth Hampe
A PROCESS-ORIENTED APPROACH TOWARDS NATURE IN THE CONTEXT OF ECOLOGICAL ART THERAPY

Monika Wigger
NATURAL AND ARTISTIC ASPECTS OF ART THERAPY

Alexander Kopytin and Tony Yu Zhou
FROM IKEBANA TO BOTANICAL ARRANGING: ARTISTIC, THERAPEUTIC, AND SPIRITUAL ALIGNMENT WITH NATURE

Part Three. The sustainable development and eco-human perspectives in the contemporary arts

Alexander Kopytin and Stephen K. Levine
INTERVIEW WITH NEWTON HARRISON

Newton Harrison
SENSORIUM: THE THINKING

Alexandra Dvornikova
INTERVIEW WITH TEAGAN WHITE

Alexandra Dvornikova
INTERVIEW WITH DIANA SUDYKA

Alexander Kopytin
INTERIEW WITH BEVERLEY A'COURT

Judith L. Alalú, Odette A. Vélez
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