Arts Approaches to Conflict

by Marian Liebmann (Editor)

Overview

Conflict is an increasingly common feature of modern life, and often has disastrous and destructive outcomes. Arts Approaches to Conflict explores how various arts approaches can both raise our understanding of conflict and lead to its constructive resolution. Practitioners and experts from a wide range of art forms examine their own fields as approaches to conflict, encompassing:

- visual arts

- drama, puppetry and masks

- music

- storytelling

- dance and movement

- the combined arts

Arts Approaches to Conflict is a rich resource of new ideas, practices and information which explores the creative ways to address conflict. It is fascinating and eye-opening reading both for students and practitioners in arts therapies, psychotherapy, counselling, social work, mediation, probation and prison services.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853022937
Publisher:	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date:	07/01/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.17(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Marian Liebmann has worked in education, art therapy, victim support and probation, and has been involved in community, victim - offender and schools mediation. For eight years she worked for Mediation UK, the umbrella organisation for mediation, as director and projects adviser. She has written/edited seven books in the fields of art therapy, mediation and conflict resolution, and contributed chapters to many others. She currently divides her time between freelance mediation training, art therapy, supervision and writing.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Marian Liebmann. 1. Raising Self-Esteem in Situations of Conflict, Michael Dalton. 2. Conflict, Knowledge and Transformation: Three Drama Techniques, Francis Gobey 3. Playing with Fire: The Creative Use of Conflict, Nic Fine and Fiona Macbeth. 4. Stage Frights: Violence, Conflict and Drama, James Thompson. 5. The Violent Illusion: Dramatherapy and the Dangerous Voyage to the Heart of Change, John Bergman and Saul Hewish. 6. CROSS-TALK: Community Conflict Resolution Through Drama, Caird Forsyth. 7. Conflict at School: The Use of an Art Therapy Approach to Support Children who are Bullied, Carol Ross. 8. Giving it Form: Exploring Conflict Through Art, Marian Liebmann. 9. Conflict Resolution Through Art with Homeless People, Dorothy F. Cameron. 10. Getting Our Acts Together: Conflict Resolution Through Music, June Boyce-Tillman. 11. Discord or Harmony: Issues of Conflict in Music Therapy, Alison Levinge. 12. Torture - The Body in Conflict: The Role of Movement Psychotherapy, Karen Callaghan. 13. Transforming Tales: Exploring Conflict Through Stories and Storytelling, Belinda Hopkins. 14. Exploring Conflict with Classroom Puppets, Val Major. 15. Childhood Without Fear: The Heartstone Project, David W. Rose. 16. Arts Approaches to Conflict in Northern Ireland, Dave Duggan. 17. The Open Closing Door: Impossible Theatre's Video Art Work with Offenders, Victims and Observers of Crime, Chris Squire.

CONTENTS: Introduction, Marian Liebmann.

BIG CONTENTS:

PART A: DRAMA. 1 Raising Self Esteem in Situations of Conflict, Michael Dalton, Pop-Up Theatre. 2 Conflict, Knowledge and Transformation: Three Drama Techniques, Francis Gobey. 3 Playing with Fire: The Creative Use of Conflict, Nic Fine and Fiona Macbeth, LEAP Confronting Conflict, London. 4 Stage Fights: Violence, Conflict and Drama, James Thompson, Theatre in Prisons and Probation Centre, Manchester. 5 The Violent Illusion: Dramatherapy and the Dangerous Voyage to the Heart of Change, John Bergman, Saul Hewish and Simon Ruding, Geese Theatre Company, Birmingham, UK and East Swanzey, NH, USA. 6 Drama and Meetings elderly/youth, Caird Forsyth

PART B: VISUAL ARTS. 7 Conflict at School: The Use of Art Therapy to Support Children who are Being Bullied, Carol Ross, Islington Learning Support Service. 8 Giving it Form: Exploring Conflict Through Art, Marian Liebmann. 9 Conflict Resolution Through Art with Homeless People, Dorothy Cameron.

PART C: MUSIC. 10 Getting our Acts Together: Conflict Resolution Through Music, June Boyce Tillman, King Alfred's College of Higher Education, Winchester. 11 Discord and Harmony: Issues of Conflict in Music Therapy, Alison Levinge, Music Therapist, Bristol.

PART D: MOVEMENT. 12 Torture - The Body in Conflict: The Role of Movement Psychotherapy, Karen Callaghan.

PART E: STORYTELLING. 13 Transforming Tales: Exploring Conflict through stories and storytelling, Belinda Hopkins.

PART F: COMBINED ARTS 14 Exploring Conflict with Classroom Puppets, Val Major, Bristol Mediation Schools Project Coordinator. 15 Childhood without Fear: The Heartstone Project, David Rose, Roehampton Institute, London. 16 Arts Approaches to the Conflict in Northern Ireland, Dave Duggan, Derry, Northern Ireland. 17 Open Closing Door: Impossible Theatre's video art work with offenders, victims and observers of crime, Chris Squire, Impossible Theatre, Holmfirth, Yorkshire.

Editorial Reviews

This challenging book invites and enables us to extend our work with victims of torture, homeless people, violent offenders and victims, bullied children, ethnic minorities and the partisans and peacemakers of Northern Ireland, as well as with other marginalized individuals and groups for whom the contributors provide active therapy. Its editor, Marian Liebmann…has attracted diversely gifted specialists and produced with them a valuable text for counsellors.

Counselling

This book contains seventeen chapters offering a unique and valuable insight into the issue of conflict. The authors discuss all aspects of conflict and its effects on the individual, community and society... This book is an inspiration for anyone working with conflict. The clinical examples are discussed sensitively and appropriately and engage the reader. This book is recommended reading.

Dramatherapy

This is page turning stuff and the book as a whole is more than a dry account of rehabilitation techniques. The descriptions of the drama workshops are in themselves dramatic. The illustrations are stark and compelling.

Criminal Justice (Magazine of the Howard League)

Replete with suggestions, techniques, structured exercises and strategies for mediating and resolving conflict that will be of help to artists, therapists and others working in this area... interesting, informative and in places very moving.

Inscape

Various attempts at resolving conflict using every conceivable art form: drama, visual arts, music, movement, storytelling and combined arts are described here. The recurring themes of self-esteem, bullying, violence, assertiveness, responsibility, anger, power and control are explored in schools, prisons, hostels and youth clubs from New York to Northern Ireland. The book describes how art therapy can be used to support homeless people and children who are bullied; and how listening to music, performing and composing can resolve inner and outer conflict. This is a magnificent book. An inspiration for mental health workers, teachers, artists and art therapists.

Nursing Times

Art Approaches to Conflict is a substantial volume, covering an enormous breadth and depth of human experience. It is a testament to people's imagination, showing many daring attempts to understand and resolve conflict using every conceivable art form. Chapters range across the recurring themes of self-esteem, bullying, violence, assertiveness, responsibility, anger, power and control...these themes are crucial to every aspect of mental health. This book is a source of inspiration to all those who work in mental health, as well as teachers, those who work with offenders, refugees and homeless people, in fact anyone seriously trying to resolve conflict in this war-torn world.

Mental Health Nursing

Each chapter provides a foundation for the work presented later providing the reader not only with the experience which they can replicate but also knowing the reason such an activity was attempted... this book provides the therapist with many thought provoking ideas, expanded foundations on which to build sessions, as well as practical activities... it has potential benefit for persons in the mental health fields both while they are in their pre-professional training as well as professionals with many years experience.

Music Therapy Perspectives

Seventeen articles cover various arts approaches for understanding and resolving conflict. A large number of articles are directed toward working with children, and several others deal with offenders--especially those who have been convicted of violent crimes. Organization is in sections on the use of drama, the visual arts, music, movement, and storytelling; chapters which describe approaches using a combination of art forms, such as puppetry, stories and pictures; video, play and visual arts; stories, movement and crafts; and movement, drama, painting and myth work. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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