Arts in Nature with Children and Young People

Zoe Moula, PhD, is a Lecturer in Mental Health at King’s College London and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Art Therapy. Nicola Walshe, PhD, is Pro-Director for Education at the UCL Institute of Education and Executive Director of the UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education.

1. Introduction 2. Immersion and Transcendence through Music Making in the More-than-human World 3. The Breeze Forest School Project: Child-centred Support for Development and Wellbeing 4. Performing with/in Place: Exploring Sense of Place through Story Making and Sharing 5. Exploring Restorative Connections with Nature through Communicative Musicality 6. Pocket Adventures: Nurturing Young Children’s Wellbeing and Development through Art-in-nature Early Childhood Education 7. The Village project: A Community of Relational Creativity 8. An Outdoor Therapy Service Offering Art Therapy for Young People and Adults 9. Learning to Live Well Together: Art and Ecological Research with Young Children 10. Forest of Imagination: Reimagining Familiar Spaces through Creativity and Nature Awareness 11. Open Spaces, Open Senses: On Sensuous Presence in Eco-somatic Practice of Felt Thinking and Therapeutic Walking with Young People 12. Open Studio in the Greenhouse: Nature-connected Expressive and Therapeutic Art Experiences with Vulnerable Adolescents 13. What’s beneath our Feet? Cultivating Cultural Awareness through Arts-in-nature with Australian Children and Young People 14. Conclusion