volume 18, number 1, 2023

This issue is now published in full. Future articles, practice papers, creative contributions, reviews and more will be pre-published in the volume 18, number 2, 2023 issue every three to four weeks starting in September. Please sign up for our eNews to receive notifications as to when new content drops.

/editorials

Editorial – Playing string figures and CAT’s cradles: An edition of embodied entanglements / Deborah Green

Introducing our two new co-editors / The JoCAT editors

/explainer

Explainer – Raw art / Vic Segedin

/obituary

In memoriam:
Dr Nancy Slater, 14 July 1942 – 1 March 2023 / Joy Schmidt

/info

Publication date: 2023
ISSN: 2652-9459
Editors: A/Prof Sheridan Linnell, Dr Stacey Bush, Dr Catherine Camden Pratt, Dr Deborah Green
Publisher: JoCAT

Previous issue – volume 17, number 2 – available here

Subsequent issue – volume 18, number 2 – available here

/articles

A walk of im/possible snails: A tender tracing of a mother/child ‘us’ / Ariel Moy

Intra-active identity stories: How a storm, pine-needle basket, waterfall, and satellite entangle and trouble a creative arts therapist’s ecological and professional identity/ Naomi Pears-Scown

The pact of Zariel Deer and Tarak Hawk: A youth Zoom group journey / Marion Gordon-Flower

Working with layers: A heuristic study utilising single-canvas art-making to illuminate personal responses of the therapist / Amanda Brown and Maggie Wilson

/practice papers

Drumming, rhythm and regulation through a polyvagal lens / Simon Faulkner

/reflections and essays

Mandala: Reflecting on my experience of the embodiment of Tibetan Buddhism in the moulding of mato (clay) with women in Nepal and Australia / Tricia Ong

Untying knots of emotions with threads: A reflection on the curative powers of memorialisation with yarn / Li June Han

/creative contributions

Sponge, ink, snow, and hand / Jo Davies

Nature-based art at Pablos Art Studio / Sarah Rossiter and Pablos artists

/podcasts

A tender tracing of a mother/child ‘us’ / Ariel Moy in conversation with Stacey Bush

Intra-active identity stories / Naomi Pears-Scown in conversation with Amanda Levey

Raw Art podcast series – Nature-based art at Pablos Art Studio / Sarah Rossiter in conversation with Amanda Levey, and Pablos artists

Clay work for embodiment with women in Nepal / Tricia Ong talks to Amanda Levey

/reviews

Book review – Dramatherapy with elders and people with dementia: Enabling developmental wellbeing, by Joanna Jaaniste / Reviewed by Kirsten Meyer

Book review – A feminist approach to sensitive research: Designing the Clay Embodiment Research Method, by Tricia Ong / Reviewed by Tania Blomfield

/videos

A walk of im/possible snails / Ariel Moy