Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (947 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1582703930 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. It is helping veterans recover, improving the quality of life for cancer patients, and bringing communities together to improve their neighborhoods. 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. Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities. 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. Now it’s your turn
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. 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 bestse
Medical doctor and best-selling author Samuels and Lane, a professor, nurse, and painter, explain in great detail how to conduct their acclaimed 12-week program aimed at helping individuals, caregivers, and even troubled neighborhoods foster new perspectives and enact healthy change. --Whitney Scott . Instructions for diverse projects and exercises are accompanied by stories about people who have been healed by art. With lots of background information and solid advice, Samuels and Lane elucidate the healing potentials of a variety of art forms, including music, dance, writing, and drawing, and suggest rituals and ceremonies to inspire and support creative awakenings and development. From Booklist One’s self, one’s family, and one’s community can bloom with the practice of creativity and self-expression for health and
Jane Morris said An accessible program for everyone!. In "Healing with the Arts", Michael Samuels leads us on an invigorating journey as he teaches us how to heal our mind, body, and soul, and those of the people around us through creative expression and art.Each of the projects covered in his twelve week course is distinctly unique and include aspects such as dance, music, visual imagery, and writing. Each stage of the course is also well structures and overall the book is laid out in an easy to read, step by step manner. Each chapter also contains a true story or anecdote about how such projects have. Great Journey!!! This book is a great journey to take for either personal or professional reasons. I am a RN going for my doctorate degree as a nurse practitioner and began this journey with a goal of expanding my professional role, but ended up with a profound impact on my personal life. Also at the time, I was pregnant with my first child. Taking key points from this experience helped me prepare for my new baby boy by helping me process the emotions and fully engaging the pregnancy. I also took the opportunity to make a stronger connection with my mother by using . [] This website has an ABUNDANCE to offer us all!!! Emi 17 Stars!! Healing with the Arts has infused every area of my life (family, friends, work, etc.) with inspiration and belief in a reality much more expansive than I had previously been aware of. I am continually blown away by the treasures I discover in this book and in the class that this book is based upon. Co-facilitating this program with Dr. Mary Rockwood Lane has exponentially enhanced my life, and I delight in the fruits and wisdom of "Healing with the Arts" on a daily basis in my personal and professional endeavors. Tonight completed another