Creative Expression and Wellbeing in Higher Education

1. Poetic inquiry: Transformational representations of wellbeing and self-care in higher education Section 1: Making and creating as a representation of self-care 2. The feeling of doingthinking and thinkingdoing of making processes 3. Journaling Right and Left 4. Meditative Math-Making Section 2: Collaborative expression, embodiment, and the power of relationships 5. Stepping off the Edge: Circles of Connection and Creativity for Wellbeing in the Academy 6. Running, Writing, Resilience: A Self-Study of Collaborative Self-Care Among Women Faculty 7. Making mindful moments: Made artefacts as a form of data visualisation to monitor and respond to self-care and wellbeing Section 3: Creative practice as interruption 8. Using arts-based and feminist methodologies to slow the wear and tear/s of academic work/life 9. Playing with pictures to make sense and interrupt the hurly-burly university game. 10. Self-Care in the Time of Crisis: An a/r/tographic conversation to explore self-care as academics, that took an unexpected turn Section 4: Mind, body, and movement as acts of self-care 11. Kia korero te tinana katoa (The whole body must speak): Maori early career academics and performing ones' cultural self for hauora 12. Cycling as a form of self-care: Incorporating and sustaining purposeful movement practices to support wellbeing 13. Anatomy of a burnout: Walking, reading and journal writing as practices of self-care to support intellectual life