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The Mindful Studio
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By Jane E. Dalton
Art has the power to transform students’ lives. Visual art is a powerful tool, integrating the cognitive and affective realms in education, and offering an embodied learning experience that can support students in an increasingly complex world. With the multitude of demands and distractions from the outer world, it is even more fundamental that students cultivate an inner life.
This book introduces mindfulness-based expressive arts practices to teachers. Bringing mindfulness practices and expressive arts practices to the classroom offers students tools to enhance their creative process and encourage them to be open to their emotional life. Students may also become more engaged and focused on the task at hand. Imagine a classroom where all students feel safe to simply show up, be present to all facets of their amazing and growing beings, and respond through creative and mindful practices.
What Is the Mindful Studio?
The mindful studio blends mindfulness and the expressive arts to cultivate present-moment awareness of the breath, body, thoughts, emotions, and the creative impulse. Mindfulness, when coupled with expressive arts, can enhance creativity and creative problem solving, qualities essential to the art classroom. When engaged in mindful making, students are present to themselves, each other, the content, and the creative process.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: What Is the Mindful Studio?
- Chapter 2: Expressive Arts, Creativity, and Mindfulness
- Chapter 3: The Art of Self-Care
- Chapter 4: The Mindful Studio and the Whole Student
- Meditations