Exploring Creative Wellbeing Frameworks in Context: Nature, Culture, and Sustainable Futures(Explorations in Mental Health)

This timely edited monograph develops conceptual frameworks for creative wellbeing, exploring the impact on people’s lives and its contribution to a sustainable future, by examining case studies of how creative wellbeing is practised in a variety of contexts. Using sociocultural perspectives of creativity, the authors call to attention everyday wellbeing and the possibilities for a rich life using creative wellbeing as an action competence. Chapters use a diverse range of epistemological positions, embracing quantitative, qualitative, and posthumanist methodologies to explore how integrated nature-culture perspectives can enhance the understanding of creative wellbeing when informed by engagement in natural contexts, but also by the deep connection between nature and culture in creating meaning. Ultimately furthering research into creative wellbeing, improving practice, and inspiring nature and culture practices for all, this book will be of benefit to researchers, postgraduate students, and scholars interested in creative approaches to mental health, positive psychology, and environmental psychology, and creativity and transcendence more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Table of Contents:
1. Frameworks for creative wellbeing: Arts and nature meet positive psychology 2. Creative wellbeing in nature 3. The Sami yoik as creative wellbeing 4. Exploring creative wellbeing as aesthetic experience in the theatre 5. The art of walking: Finding resources for creative wellbeing 6. Creative wellbeing at sea: The Windjammer Project 7. Relaxed performance: Promoting creative wellbeing for all 8. Creative wellbeing in higher education: The use of theatre in the education of social workers 9. Creative wellbeing and formative processes in teacher education and school: Student teachers’ perceptions 10. Creative wellbeing in school: Nurturing human growth and happiness through drama in education

About the Author :
Wenche Torrissen is Professor of Drama and Theatre, Faculty of Arts and Physical Education, Volda University College, and The Norwegian Resource Centre for Arts and Health, Nord University, Norway. Helga Synnevåg Løvoll is Professor in Friluftsliv/Outdoor Studies, Faculty of Arts and Physical Education, Volda University College, Norway.