Ian Siddons Heginworth is the author of Environmental Arts Therapy and the Tree of Life, the book that has inspired the growth of the environmental arts therapy movement in the UK. He leads the postgraduate certificate course in environmental arts therapy at the London Art Therapy Centre and runs a private practice in Devon.

Gary Nash is an art therapist and educator in art and environmental arts therapy training. He co-founded the London Art Therapy Centre in 2009 where he is Clinical Co-Director providing individual art therapy, supervision and group environmental arts therapy.

Foreword

Mary-Jayne Rust

Acknowledgements

Introduction by the editors

Ian Siddons Heginworth and Gary Nash

Part I Environmental arts therapy in context

Chapter 1. Turning: the emergence and growth of environmental arts therapy in the British Isles

Ian Siddons Heginworth

Chapter 2. Weaving the threads of theory and experience: a review of the literature

Gary Nash

Part II Childhood, love and attachment: the heart of the matter

Chapter 3. The wild inside: offering children natural materials and an ecopsychological understanding of self within art therapy

Lydia Boon

Chapter 4. EarthWays: Environmental arts therapy for repairing insecure attachment and developing creative response-ability in an insecure world

Lia Ponton

Chapter 5. Bringing the outside in: reflecting upon mother within a pilot group in environmental arts therapy

Michelle Edinburgh

Part III Feminine and masculine: putting feeling first

Chapter 6. Meeting the wounded feminine: trauma-informed environmental arts therapy as an approach to working with physical illness

Susie Thompson

Chapter 7. The wood between the worlds: encountering the wounded healer in environmental arts therapy

William Secretan

Chapter 8. The tapping on the window: environmental arts therapy and the integrated self

Auriel Eagleton

Part IV The cycle of the year: working with the seasons

Chapter 9. Taking art therapy outdoors: a Circle of Trees

Gary Nash

Chapter 10. Creating connections: introducing environmental arts therapy in to London¿s green spaces

Simon Woodward

Chapter 11. Space to move, explore and create: taking art therapy into the outdoor environment in adult mental health services

Pamela Stanley

Part V Elderhood and endings: the wild road on

Chapter 12. Trees of life and death: a journey into the heart of Transylvania to use environmental arts therapy with groups of adults and staff in palliative care

Hannah Monteiro

Chapter 13. Growing elders: the cultivation and collaboration of an elder women¿s group in the woods

Deborah Kelly and Vanessa Jones

Epilogue

Ian Siddons Heginworth