Healing with the Arts
A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community
1st Edition
Published on 5. November 2013
288 pages
978-1-4516-9683-7 (ISBN)
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Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities.
From musicians in hospitals to quilts on the National Mall?art is already healing people all over the world. It is helping veterans recover, improving the quality of life for cancer patients, and bringing communities together to improve their neighborhoods. Now it's your turn.
Through art projects, including visual arts, dance, writing, and music, along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing with the Arts gives you the tools to address what you need to heal in your life?physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
An acclaimed twelve-week program lauded by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts gives you the ability to heal your family and your friends, as well as communities where you've always wanted to make a difference. Internationally known leaders in the arts in medicine movement, Michael Samuels, MD, and Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD, show you how to use creativity and self-expression to pave the artist's path to healing.
From musicians in hospitals to quilts on the National Mall?art is already healing people all over the world. It is helping veterans recover, improving the quality of life for cancer patients, and bringing communities together to improve their neighborhoods. Now it's your turn.
Through art projects, including visual arts, dance, writing, and music, along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing with the Arts gives you the tools to address what you need to heal in your life?physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
An acclaimed twelve-week program lauded by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts gives you the ability to heal your family and your friends, as well as communities where you've always wanted to make a difference. Internationally known leaders in the arts in medicine movement, Michael Samuels, MD, and Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD, show you how to use creativity and self-expression to pave the artist's path to healing.
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A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community
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Michael Samuels, MD, is the founder and director of Art as a Healing Force and currently teaches at San Francisco State University in the Institute of Holistic Studies. He is the author of nineteen books, including the bestsellers The Well Body Book and The Well Baby Book.
Mary Rockwood Lane, PhD, is a professor, painter, and nurse. In addition to her role as cofounder and codirector of the Arts in Medicine process at the University of Florida, Gainseville, she is an assistant professor of nursing there with an emphasis on creativity and spirituality in healthcare.
Mary Rockwood Lane, PhD, is a professor, painter, and nurse. In addition to her role as cofounder and codirector of the Arts in Medicine process at the University of Florida, Gainseville, she is an assistant professor of nursing there with an emphasis on creativity and spirituality in healthcare.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Foreword by Jean Watson
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Beginning the Journey
- Week 1: Activating the Artist and Healer Within
- Week 2: Merging Your Inner Artist and Healer
- Week 3: The Spirit in Art Healing
- Week 4: Finding Out What Needs to Be Healed
- Part II: Creative Healing with Visual Arts, Words, Music, and Dance
- Week 5: Healing with Visual Arts
- Week 6: Healing with Words
- Week 7: Healing with Music
- Week 8: Healing with Dance and Movement
- Part III: Awakening to Your New Life
- Week 9: Finding Your Essence
- Week 10: Experiencing Sacred Sexuality
- Week 11: Art, Healing, and the End of Life
- Week 12: Your Final Project and Transcendence Ceremony
- Conclusion: Creative Luminosity
- Acknowledgments
- About Michael Samuels, MD, and Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD.
- Copyright
