by Evan Dwan | Jan 2, 2022 | News |
The impact of trauma requires approaches that address the sensory aspects many survivors report (Machiodi, 2020). Expressive arts therapy uses art, music, dance/movement, dramatic enactment, creative writing and imaginative play to facilitate mainly nonverbal...
by Evan Dwan | Jan 2, 2022 | News |
Trauma does not determine outcomes – rather it is the response of the person’s social group that is critical (Bloom, 2013). The realisation that humans tend to repeat traumatic experience has led to the fear that our society is suffering post-traumatic deterioration...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 25, 2021 | News |
How do we go about creating changes in human societies that will support human flourishing and the health of the other-than-human world? We are currently a sick species and that sickness is reflected (or projected) into the natural world around us. It is hard really...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 15, 2020 | News |
In Poetry and Story therapy, Geri Giebel Chavis, writes that poetry has always played a special role in the history of healing. Medicine men and shamans in ancient civilization chanted poems as part of their healing rituals. In ancient Greece, Apollo represents poetry...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 6, 2020 | News |
Humans have a long history of using the arts for self-expression, self-regulation and healing. These forms of communication – image-making, ritual, movement, dramatic enactment, imaginative play, music and storytelling – have, according to Cathy Machioldi, been ways...
