Ecopoiesis By the same author Related titles Poiesis Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy The Language of Psychology Integrating the Expressive and the Speech of the Soul Arts and Ecotherapy Stephen K. Levine Sally Atkins and Melia Snyder ISBN 978 1 85302 488 7 Forewords by Corrine Glesne eISBN 978 0 85700 074 3 and Per Espen Stoknes Foundations of Expressive ISBN 978 1 78592 726 3 eISBN 978 1 78450 380 2 Arts Therapy Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives Emotional Resiliency in the Edited by Stephen K. Levine and Ellen G. Levine Era of Climate Change ISBN 978 1 85302 463 4 A Clinician’s Guide eISBN 978 1 84642 185 3 Leslie Davenport Principles and Practice of Foreword by Lise Van Susteren, M.D. Expressive Arts Therapy ISBN 978 1 78592 719 5 eISBN 978 1 78450 328 4 Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics Paolo Knill, Ellen G. Levine, An Expressive Arts Approach and Stephen K. Levine to Healing Loss and Grief ISBN 978 1 84310 039 3 Working Across the Spectrum of Loss eISBN 978 1 84642 032 0 with Individuals and Communities Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy Irene Renzenbrink The Arts and Human Suffering Foreword by Stephen K. Levine Stephen K. Levine ISBN 978 1 78775 278 8 ISBN 978 1 84310 512 1 eISBN 978 1 78775 279 5 eISBN 978 0 85700 193 1 Art in Action Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change Ellen G. Levine and Stephen K. Levine Foreword by Michelle LeBaron ISBN 978 1 84905 820 9 eISBN 978 0 85700 270 9 New Developments in Expressive Arts The Play of Poiesis Edited by Ellen G. Levine and Stephen K. Levine ISBN 978 1 78592 247 3 eISBN 978 1 78450 532 5 Philosophy of Expressive Arts Therapy Poiesis and the Therapeutic Imagination Stephen K. Levine Foreword by Catherine Hyland Moon ISBN 978 1 78775 005 0 eISBN 978 1 78775 006 7 ECOPOIESIS A New Perspective for the Expressive and Creative Arts Therapies in the 21st Century edited by Stephen K. Levine and Alexander Kopytin Foreword by Shaun McNiff First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers An Hachette Company 2 Copyright © Stephen K. Levine and Alexander Kopytin 2022 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library and the Library of Congress ISBN 978 1 78775 993 0 eISBN 978 1 78775 994 7 Printed and bound in the United States by Integrated Books International Jessica Kingsley Publishers’ policy is to use papers that are natural, renewable and recyclable products and made from wood grown in sus- tainable forests. The logging and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. Jessica Kingsley Publishers Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DZ, UK www.jkp.com Contents Foreword: Art as Nature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Shaun McNiff Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Stephen K. Levine Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Alexander Kopytin Part 1: In Search of the Eco-Human Paradigm in Expressive Arts, Therapy, and Education 1. The Awakening Roar of Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Sally Atkins 2. Nature-Assisted Creative Arts Therapies and the Paradigm Change: What Arts Therapists Can Do in the Face of New Global Challenges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Alexander Kopytin 3. Ecopoiesis: Towards a Poietic Ecology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Stephen K. Levine 4. The Role of Attention in Expressive Art and Nature-Based Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Madeline M. Rugh 5. Culture and Nature: The Play of Ecopoiesis . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Varvara Sidorova Part 2: Integrating Ecological and Sustainable Development Perspectives in Expressive/Creative Arts Therapies Practice with Individuals, Groups, and Communities 6. Wandering the Beautiful trail: Ecopoiesis in Ecological Art Therapy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Beverley A’Court 7. Making Sense of Solastalgia through Therapeutic Eco- Scenography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Eliza Sweeney 8. Ecological/Nature-Assisted Art therapy with War Veterans: How Nature Can Heal the Trauma of War . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Alexey Lebedev and Alexander Kopytin 9. Walking the Common Place of Commemoration . . . . . . . . 171 Pamela Whitaker 10. Re-Imaging Art Therapy in the Global Crisis: Storm Clouds and Silver Linings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Monica Carpendale 11. Coronavirus as a Rite of Passage: Finding Cures for “Colonialvirus” through Expressive Arts-Based Research. . . . 198 Gracelynn Chung-Yan Lau 12. A Process-Oriented Approach to Nature in the Context of Ecological Art Therapy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Ruth Hampe 13. Natural and Artistic Aspects of Art Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Monika Wigger 14. From Ikebana to Botanical Arranging: Artistic, Therapeutic, and Spiritual Alignment with Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Alexander Kopytin and Tony Yu Zhou Part 3: Sustainable Development and Eco-Human Perspectives in the Contemporary Arts 15. Interview with Newton Harrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 The interviewers: Alexander Kopytin and Stephen K. Levine 16. Sensorium: The Voice of the World Ocean—The Thinking . . 270 Newton Harrison 17. Interview with Teagan White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 The interviewer: Alexandra Dvornikova 18. Interview with Diana Sudyka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 The interviewer: Alexandra Dvornikova 19. Interview with Beverley A’Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 The interviewer: Alexander Kopytin 20. The Vital Exodus: Éxodo Vital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 Judith Alalú L. and Odette A. Vélez V. Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327