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A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life
Self-Reflection Using Photography, Art, and Writing
Graham Gordon Ramsay and Holly Barlow Sweet
A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life brims with imaginative exercises and examples that use the power of photography, art, and writing as tools for self-discovery. Exercises are accompanied by searching questions for self-reflection, and are complemented by examples of each exercise to provoke ideas and inspiration. Learn More2008, Paperback / softback, 8.90in x 5.91in / 226mm x 150mm, 192pp, CA$37.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-892-42008, Ebook, ePUB, 192pp, CA$37.95ISBN: 978-1-84642-866-1 -
Connecting through Music with People with Dementia
A Guide for Caregivers
Robin Rio
This user-friendly book demonstrates how even simple sounds and movements can engage people with dementia, promoting relaxation and enjoyment. All that's needed to succeed is a love of music, and a desire to gain greater communication and interaction. The book provides practical advice on using music and includes a songbook of popular song choices. Learn More2009, Paperback / softback, 8.43in x 5.43in / 214mm x 138mm, 144pp, CA$26.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-905-12009, Ebook, ePUB, 144pp, CA$26.95ISBN: 978-1-84642-725-1 -
Breath in Action
The Art of Breath in Vocal and Holistic Practice
Edited by Jane Boston and Rena Cook
Breath in Action looks at the significance of breath to human life - not just the simple fact that if we stop breathing, we die, but also the more subtle ways in which our breath interacts with our voice and our being. Combining theory with practice, many of the chapters also offer clearly laid out breathing exercises and techniques. Learn More2009, Paperback / softback, 9.57in x 6.77in / 243mm x 172mm, 256pp, CA$31.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-942-62009, Ebook, ePUB, 256pp, CA$31.95ISBN: 978-1-84642-948-4 -
Writing Routes
A Resource Handbook of Therapeutic Writing
Gillie Bolton, Victoria Field and Kate Thompson
Writing Routes is an essential roadmap for anybody setting out on the journey of self-discovery through words. Seventy contributors from a variety of different backgrounds and circumstances explain how they came to write a particular piece and why, how they found ways of transforming their experience into writing, and how it was beneficial to them. Learn More2010, Paperback / softback, 8.94in x 6.06in / 227mm x 154mm, 240pp, CA$33.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-107-12011, Ebook, ePUB, 240pp, CA$33.95ISBN: 978-0-85700-303-4 -
Theatre of Witness
Finding the Medicine in Stories of Suffering, Transformation, and Peace
Teya Sepinuck
Theatre of Witness is a model of performance that gives voice to those who have been marginalized, forgotten or lost to society, creating a safe forum for audiences to bear witness to accounts of suffering and transformation. This book chronicles the author's 26 years of creating theatre with people whose stories have previously gone untold. Learn More2013, Paperback / softback, 8.98in x 5.91in / 228mm x 150mm, 240pp, CA$35.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-382-22013, Ebook, ePUB, 240pp, CA$35.95ISBN: 978-0-85700-745-2 -
Mudras of Indian Dance
52 Hand Gestures for Artistic Expression
Revital Carroll with Cain Carroll
This attractive set of user-friendly cards shows the 52 fundamental hand mudras used in Indian dance and theatre. Each card presents a full-colour image of the mudra with Sanskrit name, transliteration and English translation, and concise information on the origins and applications. Essential for students of Indian Dance. Learn More2013, Ebook, ePUB, 52pp, CA$24.95ISBN: 978-0-85701-142-82013, Cards, 6.30in x 4.57in / 160mm x 116mm, CA$24.95ISBN: 978-1-84819-175-4 -
The Writer's Key
Introducing Creative Solutions for Life
Gillie Bolton
The Writer's Key introduces creative writing as a tool for self-reflection and personal and professional development. It provides strategies and inspiration for getting started, continuing despite hesitations and for getting the most out of writing, and includes success stories from personal and professional writers. Learn More2013, Paperback / softback, 9.61in x 6.69in / 244mm x 170mm, 168pp, CA$26.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-475-12013, Ebook, ePUB, 168pp, CA$26.95ISBN: 978-0-85700-854-1 -
Anna Halprin
Dance - Process - Form
Gabriele Wittmann, Ursula Schorn and Ronit Land Forewords by Anna Halprin and Rudolf zur Lippe
This book considers the creative work and therapeutic and pedagogical approach of Anna Halprin, a dancer, choreographer, and early pioneer in the expressive arts healing movement. It looks at her 'Life/Art Process®' and the wider impact of her work across the fields of art, education, therapy and politics. Learn More2014, Paperback / softback, 8.98in x 6.02in / 228mm x 153mm, 208pp, CA$35.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-472-02014, Ebook, ePUB, 208pp, CA$35.95ISBN: 978-0-85700-851-0 -
The Energetic Performer
An Integrated Approach to Acting for Stage and Screen
Amanda Brennan
New anatomical and physiological knowledge is combined with eastern energy techniques and traditional actor training methods as the basis for this pioneering approach to actor training. Practical exercises extend understanding of the somatic systems and how to create flexible bodies for truthful performances. Learn More2016, Paperback / softback, 8.98in x 6.14in / 228mm x 156mm, 328pp, CA$35.95ISBN: 978-1-84819-097-92016, Ebook, ePUB, 336pp, CA$35.95ISBN: 978-0-85701-084-1 -
Galvanizing Performance
The Alexander Technique as a Catalyst for Excellence
Edited by Cathy Madden and Kathleen Juhl
An application of the teachings of the Alexander Technique to the performing arts. This collection demonstrates how deliberate movement and specific practice in theatre, music, song and dance can improve the art form, as well as the artist's wellbeing. Learn More2017, Paperback / softback, 9.02in x 6.34in / 229mm x 161mm, 336pp, CA$49.95ISBN: 97817859272012017, Ebook, ePUB, 336pp, CA$49.95ISBN: 978-0-85701-272-2
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