Educators, Therapists, and Artists on Reflective Practice (Lesley University Series in Arts & Education)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820461687 ISBN 13: 9780820461687

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2004

Educators, Therapists, and Artists on Reflective Practice is a dynamic interpretation of transformational learning in education and therapy that brings together writers from various disciplines to recount their common experiences of being changed by those whom they mentor and guide. This book demonstrates that the reward for revealing vulnerabilities is a truly human connection that expands the roles of teacher and student, as well as therapist and client. By exploring contemporary concepts in reciprocal learning, the authors challenge and inspire their readers to examine their own engagement in the process of lifelong transformative learning.

About the Author:

The Editors: Julia J. Gentleman Byers, Ed.D. ATR-BC, LMHC, is Professor of expressive arts therapies and Division Director of Expressive Therapies at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has lectured internationally and has various publications on psychological interventions with traumatized populations. A former tenured professor and coordinator of a graduate program at Concordia University in Canada, Dr. Byers is a member of the faculty in Lesley's Body, Mind, and Spirituality Institute and an advisory board member of the Healing Gardens in Harvard, Massachusetts.
Michele Forinash, DA, MT-BC, LMHC, is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the music therapy specialization in the Division of Expressive Therapies at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has published numerous articles and chapters on qualitative research in music therapy and is the editor of Music Therapy Supervision, as well as the North American editor for the online international music therapy journal Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy (www.voices.no).