Choosing the ‘right’ space to work in: Reflections prior to a nature therapy session

Berger, Ronen

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“…Nature therapy, which takes place in nature, is based on an innovative experiential approach. It seeks to broaden the classical concept of setting as a static, permanent place under the control and ownership of the therapist (Barkan, 2002;Bleger, 1967) to include the dynamic natural environment as a partner in the shaping of the setting and process (Berger, 2006(Berger, , 2007a(Berger, , 2007bBerger & McLeod, 2006). The developing theory, concepts, and methods of this approach to therapy help it operate in the living, open environment and take advantage of its healing elements (Berger, 2006;Berger & McLeod, 2006) to support therapeutic processes and develop in new directions.…”

Section: Nature Therapy: An Innovative Therapeutic Frameworkmentioning

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Being in Nature

Berger¹

2009

J Holist Nurs

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This article describes a creative framework in which nature is incorporated in therapy with older adults. Using an example from practice, it illustrates how the integration of concepts from the narrative approach and the innovative nature therapy framework can help older people expand their perspectives, connect with strength, and expand their coping strategies, while gaining a wider sense of acceptance and completion in life.

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Section: Nature Therapy: An Innovative Therapeutic Frameworkmentioning

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Being in Nature

Berger¹

2009

J Holist Nurs

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“…Recently, work in OE and Nature and Adventure Therapy has started to acknowledge the environment as an active participant in the process, in what is termed an 'ecocentric' approach (Berger, 2007;Beringer & Martin, 2003;Quay, 2005;Wattchow, 2001). Moreover, with the understanding that humanity is part of nature, the environment becomes an intimate component of all human activity, including education.…”

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Indigenous ways—fruits of our ancestors

Cohn¹

2011

Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning

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In this paper the human-nature relationship is recognized as a major field of interest and a platform of ideas linked with it is explored. A 'new' source to inform an alternative paradigm for outdoor education is proposed; it is millennia old, has roots all over the globe and is a living, breathing, and evolving tradition-indigenous ways. While recognizing the diversity of indigenous people, the paper explores common characteristics of thought and practice within indigenous traditions. Indigenous ways are defined and their connection with outdoor education is explored. The author concludes that indigenous ways have the potential to inspire a fundamental change in outdoor education, while providing working models for theory and practice.

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“…My practice is conducted inside a school building, that I have organised and can control the specific placement of furniture, instruments etc. (Berger, 2007). Non-human made environments are quite different to this place.…”

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Developing post-ableist music therapy: An autoethnography exploring the counterpoint of a therapist experiencing illness/disability

Shaw¹

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<p>This PhD examined a therapist’s experience of illness/disability to see if any new light could be shed on music therapy whilst also finding ways to navigate disability as a practitioner. There has not been adequate research attention given to the experiences of music therapists who have an illness/disability. The position is often negotiated in isolation with minimal tools and resources. An arts-based autoethnography was used to determine how the close examination of one’s personal experience with illness/disability can impact on practice, how the work can be negotiated, and to uncover any new practical or theoretical meanings. Furthermore, it looked to determine what arts-based autoethnography could offer one’s practice. A poststructural lens was used that drew on social constructionism, feminism, and the work of Michel Foucault. Data generated from a music therapist’s practice, experiences of illness/disability, literature, and professional documents were analysed using Foucault’s “critical ontology of ourselves” (Foucault, 1984b, p. 47). Hidden processes of problematic ableism were found within the practice examined as well as in some educational and professional encounters. These regimes of ableism were supported by universalising and dichotomising discourses, namely humanism, western normativity, limited observable understandings of disability, and the enforcement of able/disabled divide through many binaries. The methodology provided the tools to reposition the practice to politicise disability and address ableism. Addressing ableism was found to be more complex than simply incorporating disability issues into existing contemporary frameworks. The analysis led to the development of Post-Ableist Music Therapy (PAMT). PAMT extended the relational ethic beyond what was present in the prior practice by drawing on aspects of posthumanism, agonistic plurality, and increasing the visibility of disability studies and crip theory. Therefore, PAMT offers a different lens to the critical orientations’ apparatus: a social justice practice not based on empowerment and humanism but on agonism and posthumanism instead. As there is a lag in the theorisation of ableism, PAMT provides an alternative framework that can be applied to current approaches to increase our professional consciousness of ableism. By repositioning the practice and exploring alternative subjectivities, the professional and personal narratives of a therapist experiencing illness/disability became more integrated, working with–not against–each other in a shared activism. The methodology fostered an increased ethical care of the self; offered tools that critiqued what we are; experimented with going beyond the limits imposed on us. The use of such tools could have wider application in the everyday practices of therapists. The findings have significant implications for practice and training, as the challenges people and societies face cannot be adequately dealt with without tools to explicitly uncover and address normalisation and ableism.</p>

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Choosing the ‘right’ space to work in: Reflections prior to a nature therapy session

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Being in Nature

Being in Nature

Indigenous ways—fruits of our ancestors

Developing post-ableist music therapy: An autoethnography exploring the counterpoint of a therapist experiencing illness/disability

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