Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community

Author:   Michael Samuels ,  Mary Rockwood Lane ,  M D Michael Samuels ,  Ph D Mary Rockwood Lane
Publisher:   Beyond Words Publishing
ISBN:  

9781582703930


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 November 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community


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Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities. From musicians in hospitals to quilts on the National Mall—art is already healing people all over the world. It is helping veterans recover, improving the quality of life for cancer patients, and bringing communities together to improve their neighborhoods. Now it’s your turn. Through art projects, including visual arts, dance, writing, and music, along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing with the Arts gives you the tools to address what you need to heal in your life—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. An acclaimed twelve-week program lauded by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts gives you the ability to heal your family and your friends, as well as communities where you’ve always wanted to make a difference. Internationally known leaders in the arts in medicine movement, Michael Samuels, MD, and Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD, show you how to use creativity and self-expression to pave the artist’s path to healing.

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Author:   Michael Samuels ,  Mary Rockwood Lane ,  M D Michael Samuels ,  Ph D Mary Rockwood Lane
Publisher:   Beyond Words Publishing
Imprint:   Beyond Words Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 18.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.437kg
ISBN:  

9781582703930


ISBN 10:   1582703930
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 November 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Healing with the Arts is a guidebook for everyone, not just artists or patients in the healthcare setting. With their intuition and wisdom, the authors present a twelve-week experiential course that shows every reader how to use his or her own creativity to enhance and enrich their own life. --Cathy DeWitt, National Consultant, Society for the Arts in Healthcare Co-Facilitator, Vital Visionaries Founding Network Member, National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA)


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Michael Samuels, MD, is the founder and director of Art as a Healing Force and currently teaches at San Francisco State University in the Institute of Holistic Studies. He is the author of nineteen books, including the bestsellers The Well Body Book and The Well Baby Book. Mary Rockwood Lane, PhD, is a professor, painter, and nurse. In addition to her role as cofounder and codirector of the Arts in Medicine process at the University of Florida, Gainseville, she is an assistant professor of nursing there with an emphasis on creativity and spirituality in healthcare.

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