Barbara A. Bickel's Books

Art, Ritual, and Trance Inquiry

Arational Learning in an Irrational World

By: Barbara A. Bickel

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Art, Ritual, and Trance Inquiry

Arational Learning in an Irrational World

By: Barbara A. Bickel

This book provides insights into the practice of trance-based inquiry through arts-based research, serving as a beacon to guide the way to thresholds of ancient, yet novel, transmissions. Embedded in lived experience and theory, this book introduces the reader to the liminal space of place and trance-based inquiry processes entwined with creative artworkings. The interweaving of art, ritual, and trance-based inquiry opens sacred spaces for learning and unlearning that bring spirit into form. Each chapter presents examples from women artists and culminates with experiential practices drawn from the author’s decades of creative peregrinations to assist artists, teachers, and researchers in transmitting a conscious way of practicing and creating with trance.

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Springer Nature

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ISBN 10

3030457451

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9783030457457

Art-Care Practices for Restoring the Communal

Education, Co-Inquiry, and Healing

By: Barbara A. Bickel,R. Michael Fisher

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Art-Care Practices for Restoring the Communal

Education, Co-Inquiry, and Healing

By: Barbara A. Bickel,R. Michael Fisher

This book contributes to a larger global call to radically re-create ourselves—to transform our fear and alienation from art, Nature, and ourselves. With compassion and grace, the co-authors outline how everyone may access the gift of Spontaneous Creation-Making and change dominant narratives of individualism. Discovering interconnectivity through art-care we can dream courageously together into the unknown possibilities of a precarious future. Art-care, as coined by the co-authors, is a matrixial form of communicaring through art and reverence. This theoretically informed and practice-based book bridges the individual with the communal in Creation-centred ways that interweave the many parts with the whole. It provides examples of teachings, practices and spontaneous creations of makers that will benefit those who want to integrate art-care into individual practices or group facilitation. This book benefits socially engaged artists, arts-based researchers, artist-philosophers, activists, students, teachers, organizers, therapists, caregivers, and more.

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