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Building our practice paper category

I wonder if you are familiar with the term ‘herding CATs’? I delight as I think about this as a way to think-into and think-with this new territory opening for our exploration as we invite submissions exploring your practice. CAT herding reminds us that we are various and richly diverse in many ways including: how we came to enter this profession; what previous experiences and trainings we bring with us; how we have been educated/trained/inducted into the many approaches that entangle under the broader term Creative Arts Therapy; the clients/groups/communities with whom we have chosen to focus our work; and how we have transformed and continue to grow our own personal practice/s of this creative healing profession. We are imagining submissions that are shorter than full-length articles, and that focus on close-in, reflexively-creative documentation of developments, implementations and innovations from/by/through the grassroots lenses of CAT practitioners. And which, as per my stretching of the ‘herding CATs' metaphor, may invite us into diverse spaces/places/experiences/ways of being-working-becoming that might challenge, cause tension, pull us in new directions and require that we stretch… 

Deborah Green, JoCAT Co-editor

We are delighted to be receiving interesting practice paper submissions and to be building our practice paper category. If you have a shorter than full-length article that focuses on close-in, reflexively-creative documentation of developments, implementations and innovations from/by/through the grassroots lenses of CAT practitioners, we would love to hear from you.