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Art Heals by Shaun McNiff
Category: Art
Presents a wide range of activities aimed at reviving art's traditional healing function and illuminates some progressive views in the rapidly expanding field of art therapy, including the practice of imagination as a force for transformation; the healing effects of group work; and total expression, whi ...Show more
Art as Research: Opportunities and Challenges by Shaun McNiff
Category: Art and Design
The new practice of art-based research uses art making as a primary mode of inquiry rather than continuing to borrow research methodologies from other disciplines to study artistic processes. Drawing on contributions from arts therapies, education, history, organizational studies, and philosophy, the es ...Show more
Art-based Research by Shaun McNiff
Category: Art and Design
The standard approach in the research of creative arts therapies has been to adopt a scientific method of investigation. However, here Shaun McNiff argues that such a method should not be the only form of enquiry and that the creative arts themselves have for too long been absent from the profession's d ...Show more
Imagination in Action by Shaun McNiff
Category: Health and Wellbeing
The theory and practice of creativity culled from the lifetime of experiences of an esteemed art educator/therapist. With proven techniques he's discovered for jump-starting the creative process. He s spent a career helping people access their creative potential, and now Shaun McNiff is sharing the secr ...Show more
The Creative Arts in Dementia Care - Practical Person-Centred Approaches and Ideas by Jill Hayes; Sarah Povey (Contribution by); Shaun McNiff (Foreword by)
Category: Health
The physical care of people with dementia is of vital importance, but so too is their emotional, social, mental and spiritual wellbeing. The creative arts are gaining increasing recognition not only as a tool for delivering effective person-centred dementia care, but also for attending to soul as well a ...Show more
Trust the Process by Shaun McNiff
Category: Personal Development
Shaun McNiff offers ways of exercising the creative spirit with different art forms including painting, sculpture, and performance art.
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