Healing Arts and Indigenous Entanglements

Kathryn Grushka is a practicing visual artist, freelance academic and writer in visual education and Arts Health. Originally trained as a visual art secondary teacher she has worked in community, the tertiary sector across visual art and creative arts pre-service teacher education. She obtained her PhD in Education from the University of Newcastle in 2008.Shelley Hannigan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Deakin University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Queensland in 2014. She is also a practicing artist and has a background in art therapy in hospitals as well as teaching art in community and secondary colleges.Elizabeth Cameron is an Associate Professor of Indigenous Knowledge and Design at the University of Newcastle. She obtained her Post Grad in Indigenous Social Health and PhD in Indigenous Knowledges from Newcastle University in 2014. She is also a Spatial Designer and Indigenous Cultural Consultant.

“This thoughtful and timely collection expands our understanding of healing beyond conventional health paradigms. By weaving together Indigenous knowledge, creative arts practices, and contemporary scholarship, the book offers profound insights into connection, culture, community, and wellbeing. It is an important resource for practitioners, educators, researchers, and anyone interested in the transformative potential of the arts in fostering healing and social change.”- Dr. Tony Yu Zhou, Founder & Executive Director, IACAET, Founder & Publisher, Creative Arts in Education and Therapy (CAET)

• Introduction. Prologue: Liz Cameron Introduction: The Healing Arts and Indigenous Entanglements: Addressing Critical Contemporary Needs, Grushka, Kathryn; Hannigan, Shelley; Cameron, Liz. Part 1: Connection: reframing our Ways of Knowing 1. Aboriginal Healing and Western Health: Disconnections and Entanglements surrounding arts-based therapy, Kathryn Grushka, Liz Cameron 2. Aro-Ha: Love, attentiveness, breath within Creative Arts Therapy, Deborah Green 3. Art as Knowing: Creative Decolonisation and Field-Shaping as Healing Practice, Tara Harriden, Carla van Laar 4. Embracing cultural wisdom: the role of bridging cultures in arts-based inquiry,Ying (Ingrid) Wang 5. Art as Healing: Creating Indigenous art on, in and with Country, Deanne Gilson, Shelley Hannigan 6. The call – epistemological dispossession in global health research, Nsamu Moonga 7. Holding Love and Grief: A Poetic Dialogue, Ariel Moy, Karen Szydlik Part 2: Case Studies 8. Something more… with|in arts-based knowing, Deborah Green, Amelia-Jayne Yiakmis, Bettina Evans, Eliza Gibbons, Heleina Wiamoana Dalton, Kathrin Marks, Kumi Nakamura, Naomi Pears-Scown, Zoe Dunster 9.The response – towards equitable coalescence through indigenous methodologies, Nsamu Moonga 10. First Rhythms as Ceremony: Relational Listening, Indigenous Methodologies, and the Healing Arts, Adam Manning 11. Masks and Healing: A Neuroarts Approach to Trauma in Aotearoa New Zealand, David Roy & Annette Rose 12. Same Same, but Different: Subverting Structures of Mental Health Care Through Relational Ecologies, Tess Rendoth, Alan Johnson 13. Community mental health and situated knowledge production: Three research experiences through artistic and cultural practices from Southern, critical, decolonial and feminist epistemologies, María Marcela Bottinelli, Claudia Lía Bang 14. Together Newcastle and Arts in Recovery: Art, Community, and Harm Reduction in Practice, Kate Forbes-Walker, Karina Sanson-Fisher, Alan Johnson Tess Rendoth 15. Inner knowing, collective healing: voices from program facilitators of a Seasons for Healing in a secondary school on Darkinjung Country, Rory Davis, Katrina Ogden, Racquel Hassett 16. Learning to Heal: Artful and Empathic Journeying through Ecocentric Entanglement with Country, Shirley Clifton, Carol Dixon. Glossary