1st Edition

Creative Expression and Wellbeing in Higher Education Making and Movement as Mindful Moments of Self-care

Edited By Narelle Lemon Copyright 2023
252 Pages 71 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 71 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 71 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume focuses on individual and collective practices of creativity, embodiment and movement as acts of self-care and wellbeing. Creative Expression and Wellbeing in Higher Education positions creative expression as an important act for professionals working in higher education, as a way to connect, communicate, practice activism or simply slow down. Through examples as diverse as... Read more

1. Poetic inquiry: Transformational representations of wellbeing and self-care in higher education

Narelle Lemon

Section 1: Making and creating as a representation of self-care

2. The feeling of doingthinking and thinkingdoing of making processes

Megan McPherson

3. Journaling Right and Left

Janet Salmons

4. Meditative Math-Making

Melissa Silk

Section 2: Collaborative expression, embodiment, and the power of relationships

5. Stepping off the Edge: Circles of Connection and Creativity for Wellbeing in the Academy

Catherine E. Hoyser

6. Running, Writing, Resilience: A Self-Study of Collaborative Self-Care Among Women Faculty

Sandra L. Tarabochia, Kristy A. Brugar, and Julie Ann Ward

7. Making mindful moments: Made artefacts as a form of data visualisation to monitor and respond to self-care and wellbeing

Sharon McDonough and Narelle Lemon

Section 3: Creative practice as interruption

8. Using arts-based and feminist methodologies to slow the wear and tear/s of academic work/life

Alison L. Black

9. Playing with pictures to make sense and interrupt the hurly-burly university game.

Mark Selkrig

10. Self-Care in the Time of Crisis: An a/r/tographic conversation to explore self-care as academics, that took an unexpected turn

Nicole Brunker and Robyn Gibson

Section 4: Mind, body, and movement as acts of self-care

11. Kia kōrero te tinana katoa (The whole body must speak): Māori early career academics and performing ones’ cultural self for hauora

Jani Katarina Taituha Wilson

12. Cycling as a form of self-care: Incorporating and sustaining purposeful movement practices to support wellbeing

Nadine Crane

13. Anatomy of a burnout: Walking, reading and journal writing as practices of self-care to support intellectual life

Lynelle Watts

Biography

Narelle Lemon is an interdisciplinary researcher in the fi elds of education, positive psychology and arts, holding the positions of Associate Professor in Education and Associate Dean (Education) for the School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.