Holding flames
Subtitle: women illuminating knowledge of s/Self transformation
By: by Eimear O'Neill.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Art -- Psychological aspects.; Art therapy -- Exhibitions.; Spirituality in art.; Self-actualization (Psychology).; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).; Mind and body.; Feminist spirituality.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: Women's knowledge of the multi-local, participatory and indigenous nature of s/Self transformation is made visible through artful inquiry. These understandings of what women are transforming from and toward leads to radical implications for more transformative psychotherapies, therapist education and community change. This work, inspired by illuminated manuscripts, uses an artful heuristic approach, drawing initially on a public art installation of thirty-six lanterns, each embodying a woman's personal journey of self-transformation. The researcher's personal art installations and indigenous artful imagery emerging from this exhibit, acknowledge art as an integral way of knowing. Art is the matrix for holding a diversity of literatures and knowledges in transdisciplinary dialogue. These include transformative learning, psychotherapy and trauma theory, critical theory, womens' ways of knowing, indigenous knowledges, ecology, cosmology, and artful heuristic inquiry. From these is proposed a participatory and multi-local understanding of self that is fluid, continually co-constituting and deeply relational, transforming ecologically in multiple locations of person, family, community, peoples, and place. The metaphors of trauma, oppression and colonization are used to explore and suggest ways of envisioning and changing problematic holding patterns of self at multiple levels of context. Women's knowledge of s/Self transformation is then applied and exemplified in intertwining transformative projects that are multi-local, participatory and fostering indigenous awareness of body, peoples and place.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-10, Section: A, page: 3596.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-149).

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