Creative expression and wellbeing in higher education : making and movement as mindful moments of self-care / edited by Narelle Lemon.

Other author Lemon, Narelle editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Copyright Date©2023
Description1 online resource (xx, 231 pages) : illustrations.
Supplemental ContentEbook Central
Subjects

SeriesWellbeing and self-care in higher education
Contents Poetic inquiry : transformational representations of wellbeing and self-care in higher education / Narelle Lemon -- The feeling of doingthinking and thinkingdoing of making processes / Megan McPherson -- Journaling right and left / Janet Salmons -- Meditative math-making / Melissa Silk -- Stepping off the edge : circles of connection and creativity for wellbeing in the academy / Catherine E. Hoyser -- Running, writing, resilience : a self-study of collaborative self-care among women faculty / Sandra L. Tarabochia, Kristy A. Brugar, and Julie Ann Ward -- Making mindful moments : made artefacts as a form of data visualisation to monitor and respond to self-care and wellbeing / Sharon McDonough and Narelle Lemon -- Using arts-based and feminist methodologies to slow the wear and tear/s of academic work/life / Alison L. Black -- Playing with pictures to make sense and interrupt the hurly-burly university game / Mark Selkrig -- Self-care in the time of crisis : an a/r/tographic conversation to explore self-care as academics, that took an unexpected turn / Nicole Brunker and Robyn Gibson -- Kia kōrero te tinana katoa (The whole body must speak) : Māori early career academics and performing ones' cultural self for hauora / Jani Katarina Taituha Wilson -- Cycling as a form of self-care : incorporating and sustaining purposeful movement practices to support wellbeing / Nadine Crane -- Anatomy of a burnout : walking, reading and journal writing as practices of self-care to support intellectual life / Lynelle Watts.
Abstract "This volume focuses on individual and collective practices of creativity, embodiment and movement as acts of self-care and wellbeing. Creative Expression and Wellbeing in Higher Education positions creative expression as an important act for professionals working in higher education, as a way to connect, communicate, practice activism or simply to slow down. Through examples as diverse as movement through dance and exercise, expression through drawing, writing or singing, and creating objects with one's hands, the authors share how individual and collective acts of creativity and movement enhance, support and embrace wellbeing, offering guidance to the reader on how such creative expression can be adopted as self-care practice. This book highlights how connection to hand, body, voice, and mind has been imperative in this process for expression, flow and engagement with self and wellbeing practices. Self-care and wellbeing are complex at the best of times. In higher education these are actions that are constantly being grappled with personally, collectively, and systematically. Designed to support readers working in higher education, this book will also be of great interest to professionals and researchers"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Biographical noteNarelle Lemon is an interdisciplinary researcher in the fi elds of education, positive psychology and arts, holding the positions of Associate Professor in Education and Associate Dean (Education) for the School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 01, 2022).
Issued in other formPrint version: Creative expression and wellbeing in higher education Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781032076010
LCCN 2022007771
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