A Review of "Art as Contemplative Practice: Expressive Pathways to the SELF"

Allen, Pat B.

doi:10.1080/07421656.2018.1490611

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“…The overall premise suggested that there is equal similarity (iso) between inner emotional states and the outer visual elements of an artwork (morphic -line, shape, color). Essentially, what we feel, we potentially show in our creative work, resulting in an art-based X-ray of one's inner state [9]. Additionally, meditation and yoga provided access to advanced levels of self-observant, mental wellbeing [5].…”

Section: Isomorphism and Artmentioning

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Alone within the ALONESS of Covid-19: Developing Contemplative, Artistic Inner Friendship for Turbulent Times

Franklin

2023

OBM Integr Complement Med

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Art therapy, imaginal mindfulness, yoga, and meditation were personal and collegial necessities for surviving the emotional fallout of isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic. Combining these practices offered us credible resources for enhancing our social, cultural, and spiritual wellness when faced with the loneliness of lockdown living. This article applies an autoethnographic lens highlighting the value of these contemplative tools for managing pandemic related distress within myself and my professional peer group. The material gathered for this article is based on the authenticity of personal, smaller samples of shared, self-described observational phenomena. While these points were not formally studied with a review of scientific samples, the pandemic encouraged innovative forms of social communication between me, colleagues, and graduate students studying art therapy. Consequently, the information presented was consistently observed and shared between these professional communities. Self-reported findings from my confreres suggested outcomes of interiorized self-regulation skills such as focused attention, inner friendship/self-compassion, and witness awareness resulting from joining art with contemplative practices.

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Section: Isomorphism and Artmentioning

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“…The overall objective of this autoethnographic investigation was to explore the experience of combining the spiritual elements of visual art [4] with introspective practices like yoga [5], meditation [6,7], and imaginal mindfulness (IM) [8,9] to relieve mind-body distress associated with pandemic-related fear and isolation.…”

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Alone within the ALONESS of Covid-19: Developing Contemplative, Artistic Inner Friendship for Turbulent Times

Franklin

2023

OBM Integr Complement Med

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“…This view was applied to the “dissociative” images in sessions with Taylor. By working phenomenologically (Betensky, 1995), we observed and tracked the formal elements of the image, noticing thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and responses, allowing a contemplative approach to the image that sought to slowly invite both Taylor and me into a shared, mutual recognition (Franklin, 2017). Like dissociative clients, dissociative images are highly susceptible to others’ projections and objectification, and vulnerable to the therapist’s “knowing” gaze.…”

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Seeing in the Dark: A View into Dissociation and Healing

Whitesel

2023

J Analytical Psychology

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In this paper, I will explore the role of art‐making, the experience of trauma and dissociation, and the process of working with self‐states from an analytic and creative frame. Relevant literature on dissociation, trauma, and the use of art will be discussed. A case involving my work with an adolescent girl who had experienced sexual abuse from a family member will be shared, with an emphasis on the meaningful role images played during the therapeutic process. Both Jungian and psychoanalytic models of conceptualizing and working with dissociation are included, following Donald Kalsched’s (2013) recommendation for a “binocular stance” to treatment, including both a focus on the inner, intrapsychic world and the interpersonal, relational realm, and how art images both illuminated and expressed these realms. Within the therapeutic process, art images allowed the therapist a view into the client’s unconscious process, and created a meeting ground for dissociative barriers to be gradually seen, felt and known, by both therapist and client. The experience of dissociation, in images and in session, provided a reference point for myself and my client, Taylor, to develop a shared understanding and a framework for growth.

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“…En Art as a Contemplative Practice (Franklin, 2017), se reflexiona sobre el cambio de nuestra dirección en la vida, al combinar la necesidad del artista en manifestar su arte, con la intención altruista de producir obras en beneficio del bienestar ajeno. Sin duda EscuchArte constituye un gran referente y fuente de inspiración como arte contemplativo y cercano al Dharma Art.…”

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“…Concluyendo este subcapítulo, Michael A. Franklin (2017), artista e investigador de prácticas contemplativas, afirma que el arte es una práctica de la "atención focal" (Siegel, 2018, p.49), una atención consciente que se practica a través de la meditación y la creación, donde se aprende a observar los pensamientos y sentimientos que surgen en la mente, en el proceso, sin resistencia.…”

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La animación, proceso alquímico y práctica contemplativa para la transformación y la comunicación consciente: Neuro Animáticas

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Animation as an alchemical art and mindfulness contemplative practice, is an enhancer of the transformation of the "self" and its consciousness, developing conscious communication and self-regulation towards well-being. Through the creative and alchemical process of animated films, mindfulness and a holistic vision can be cultivated, thereby fostering critical, reflective and creative thinking in search of coherence in the stories we live and those we recreate.The main objective of this Doctoral Thesis is to show the community, animation as an alternative language and mediating and preventive practice, both for individuals and for society, from the Arts and Education, against misinformation, disorientation and the media manipulation that we currently live. The animation thus conceived, favors an awake, attentive, sensitive and balanced mind, with a wise heart and the animator, becomes a conscious shamanic artist, an alchemist, whose art will mediate from the individual to the community, establishing an open dialogue for emotional care and self-reflection.Our perspective proposes a change, going from using animation as a form of entertainment, to using it as a neuro-artistic learning tool, introducing aspects of Neuroscience in the creative process and thus transforming it into a neuroplastic art, which promotes self-directed neuroplasticity and emotional intelligence.With this methodology, values such as compassion, empathy and resilience are stimulated, where the alchemical process of individual transformation invites us to go on an introspective and purifying journey, connecting the mind and the body, the individual with the group and the community with the world, through animated stories. Narratives that can create new heroes and heroines, independent and compassionate, that offer us other ways to face life's challenges with humor and wisdom.

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A Review of "Art as Contemplative Practice: Expressive Pathways to the SELF"

Cited by 3 publications

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Alone within the ALONESS of Covid-19: Developing Contemplative, Artistic Inner Friendship for Turbulent Times

Alone within the ALONESS of Covid-19: Developing Contemplative, Artistic Inner Friendship for Turbulent Times

Seeing in the Dark: A View into Dissociation and Healing

La animación, proceso alquímico y práctica contemplativa para la transformación y la comunicación consciente: Neuro Animáticas

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