All Theses / Dissertations

A-ha Moments, Surprises, Transformation, Change, CBT, Intermodality, The 'Third', Cognitive Distortions

children with mild autism spectrum disorder, expressive art therapy, emotional behavior influence

Singapore, decentering, play, ritual, work, low skill high sensitivity

therapeutic space design, expressive arts therapy, salutogenesis, good-enough therapy, case studies, contained chaos, liminality, sense of coherence, group work, egypt

ritualized, art practice, hand movements, inner voices dialogue with outer voices, improvisation, art-based, heuristic research, phenomenology

Beauty, Seeking Beauty, Relationality, Interdependence, Generativity, Polytheoretical, Polyaesthetic, Liberationist Pedagogy of inquiry
Abstract in English (Max 150 characters): This dissertation is an intermodal, interdisciplinary, arts-based, exploration of seeking Beauty as a core human quality, through sensory-centered, communal art practice. Philosophically, this inquiry considers the implications of how we position ourselves in our life-world with Beauty and how seeking Beauty shapes our “being” in the world.

Adolescents, creativity, well-being, self-acceptance, expressive art therapy

highly sensitive person, sensory processing sensitivity, Elaine Aron, expressive arts therapy, creating clarity, intrapersonal communication, sensory information, nervous systems, stimuli, stressors, phenomenological approach, intermodal, containment, from hindrance to resource, high sensitivity care

pregnancy loss, miscarriage, expressive arts therapy, ritual, rites of restoration, diet and medicine, decentering, grief, trauma, language

Expressive Arts Therapy; Intermodal; Muisc Improvisation; Self-Exploration

Keywords: Trauma, safety, Somatic Experiencing®, attunement, presence, decentering, resources, shaping, senses, connection

aesthetic encounter; art-as-testimony; forensic psychiatry; restorative decentering; intermodal arts; arts-based; narrative case study; aesthetic response

Early Childhood, Teaching, Education, Preschool, British Columbia, Canada,Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Development, Developmentally Informed Learning, Child-Led.

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Sensations, Clay, Touch, Exploration, Art-making, Sensory-based Decentering

Ritual forgiveness dream imagination refugees exit inner child modern contemporary peace sustainable ecology shamanism priestess origins of exa origins of rituals magic rituals

Culture-oriented expressive arts, cultural-historical psychology, studies of consciousness, consciousness, cultural phenomenology, cross-cultural expressive art-based research, auto-ethnographic art-based autobiographical research

Expressive Arts Therapy, Stress, Anxiety, New Perspectives, Intermodal Decentering, Role of Therapist/Facilitator

relational environment, acknowledgement, presence, embodiment, senses, play, imagination, beauty, institutions, meaningful connections

Garba, authentic communities, Expressive Arts Therapy, HeARTful Afternoons, new format of community gathering, Priya Parker, Systems Theory, self-organisation, murmuration, emergence, networks, play, creativity, connection, expression, non-verbal communication