Geri Giebel Chavis

Poetry and Story Therapy (eBook, ePUB)

The Healing Power of Creative Expression

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Poetry and short stories can act as powerful springboards to growth, self-enhancement and healing. With the guidance of a skilled facilitator, participants can engage with their own creative expression, and with that of others, and in doing so find opportunities to voice their truth, affirm their strengths, and find new ways of coping with challenges.

This book explores the therapeutic possibilities of poetry and stories in turn, describing how to select appropriate works for discussion, and providing techniques for facilitating personally-relevent and growth-enhancing sessions. The author provides ideas and suggestions for personal writing activities that emerge from or intertwine with this discussion, and explains how participants can create their own poetic and narrative pieces using non-literary stimuli, such as music, photographs, paintings, objects, and physical movement. A useful appendix contains titles of individual poems, stories, and literary anthologies that the author has found particularly beneficial in her work, as well as useful further resources and contact details for readers who would like to train to be registered or certified poetry therapists or facilitators.

Combining theory with innovative ideas for practical, experiential exercises, this book is a valuable tool for creative arts therapy students and practitioners, mental health and medical professionals, and anyone else interested in the healing possibilities of creative expression.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857003119
• Artikelnr.: 38229511

Autorenporträt

Geri Chavis is a professor of English at St. Catherine University, Minnesota, a Licensed Psycholgist in private practice, and a Certified Poetry Therapist. She is a former Vice President of the National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT) and is an Editorial Board member of the Journal for Poetry Therapy. Most recently, she was named honorary President of the newly-formed Irish Poetry Therapy Network.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Transformative Power of Word and Image. 1. Poems:
Springboards to Growth and Healing. Poetry's Special Healing and
Inspirational Role. Therapeutic Features of Poetry. Poetry Selection
Process. Choosing Therapeutic Poems for Your Files. Selecting Poems for
Specific Participants and Settings. Facilitating the Poetry Growth/Healing
Experience. Steps in the Poetry Therapy Process. Setting the Tone/Warm Ups.
Introducing the Poems. Beginning Discussion - Encouraging Personal
Engagement with the Poem. Encouraging Exploration and Self-Application
Through Discussion. Incorporating Writing Activities for Exploration and
Self-Application. Providing Closure. Illustrating the Process - Two
Vignettes. 3. Stories: Stimuli for Personal Development and Relationship
Building. The Role and Personal Magic of Stories. Choosing Therapeutic
Poems for Your Files. Basic Therapeutic Features of Stories. Fairy/Folk
Tales, Fables, Myths and Childhood Storybook Tales. Literary Short Stories.
Short-Short Stories or Sudden Fiction. Creative Non-Fiction
Memoirs/Vignettes/Anecdotes. Selecting Stories for Specific Participants
and Settings. Facilitating the Story Therapy/Growth Experience. Setting the
Tone/Warm-Ups. Presenting the Story. Beginning Discussion/Encouraging
Personal Engagement with the Story. Inviting Exploration and Application to
Self. Creative Writing Techniques in Response to Stories. Providing
Closure. 4. Creative Writing for Life Enhancement. The Power of
Self-Expression. Setting the Atmosphere for Writing. The Therapeutic
Process of Telling Our Stories. Developing Our Personal Waking and Dream
Metaphors/Symbols. Word Play and Creating with Linguistic Structures.
Creatively Working with Objects. Nature Writing and Healing. Writing to
Visual Stimuli. Writing in Response to Film. Melding Art, Music and
Movement with Creative Expression. The Power of the Group Poem. 5.
Concluding Remarks. Appendix I: Selected Resources. Poetry Anthologies.
Story Anthologies. Anthologies with Both Poems and Short Stories. Film
Resources. Recommended Websites. Appendix II: Feedback and Report Forms.