612 - Land-Based Healing & Ecological Identity in Art Therapy

2 credits / 30 hours

The focus of this experiential course is on land-based healing practices in art therapy, with the acknowledgement that “land-based healing” as a concept and lived experience is rooted in an Indigenous world view and way of being in relationship with the land and our non-human kin. The course will include philosophical and theoretical orientations of contemporary art therapists focused on environmental art therapy and education in the context of nature-based art therapy, eco-psychology, and the development of an ecological identity. Creativity, the creative process, and art will be considered in the context of our relationship with the land and our collective responsibility to care for it.