Resources

Websites

• Earth Artists www.earthartists.org Artists working with Nature
• Ecological Living Site home of University of the Wild www.instituteforenvironmentalawareness.org/uofw/elp
• Project Nature Connect www.ecopsych.com Michael Cohen’s Global Education courses and practices for sensory awakening to Nature.
• International Community of Ecopsychology www.ecopsychology.org On-line community and home of Gatherings e-journal
• Transformative Learning Centre www.oise.utoronto.ca/tlc at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto
• Islands Institute www.islandsinstitute.com On-line environmental art courses and home of Art of Engagement community
• Arts and Healing Network www.artheals.org/inspiration/books.php A rich selection of books on art therapy and creativity
• Centre for Touch Drawing www.touchdrawing.com Instructional Resources for Touch Drawing. Many great links to expressive arts programs and spiritual awakening resources
• Drawing Closer to Nature www.peterlondon.us Art Educator Pater London’s work and book by the same name
• Porosity Dissertation and website www.porosity.ca M J Barrett’s work on researching with animate Earth
• Nature Art Education www.naturearteducation.org A research group focused on arts-based environmental education based at Aalto University, School of Art and Design, Helsinki Finland
• Alliance for Wild Ethics www.wildethics.org Writers, storrytellers and organizations joining to deepen our connection to animate Earth

Books on Creative Practice

• Allen, P. (1995). Art is a Way of Knowing. Boston Mass: Shambhala Press.
• Cameron, J. (1997) The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart New York, N.Y.: Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Putnam Book
• Cameron, J. (1992) The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity New York, N.Y.: Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Putnam Book
• Edwards, B. (1999) Drawing on the right side of the brain. N.Y. : Jeremy P. Tarcher
• Field, J. (1957). On Not Being Able to Paint. Los Angeles: Tarcher.
• Franck, F. (1993) Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action. New York: Bantam Books
• Gold, A. (1998) Painting From the Source New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers.
• Henry, R. (1923) The Art Spirit. Colorado: Westview Press
• Koff-Chapin, D. (1996) Drawing Out Your Soul: The Touch Drawing Handbook. Langley, Washington: Quality Books Inc.
• McNiff, S. (1992). Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination. Boston, Mass.: Shambala.
• McNiff, S. (1998b). Trust the Process: An artist's guide to letting go. Massachusetts: Shambala Publications.
• Nachmanovitch, S. (1990) Free Play: Imporovisation in Life and Art. Los Angeles: Jeremy T. Tarcher Inc.

Scholarly Books and articles that link creativity with human-Nature relationships

• Abram, D. (1996). The spell of the sensuous. New York: Vintage Books.
• Adams, C. (Ed.) (1996). The soul unearthed: Celebrating wildness and personal renewal through Nature. NY, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
• Beath, S. Consciousness in action: The power of beauty, love and courage in a violent time. New York: Lantern Books.
• Berman, M. (1981). The re-enchantment of the world. New York: Cornell University Press.
• Berman, M. (1989). Coming to our senses: Body and spirit in the hidden history of the west. London: Unwin Paperbacks.
• Berry, T. (1988). The dream of the Earth. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
• Berry, T. (1999). The great work: Our way into the future. New York: Bell Tower.
• Berry, T. and M. Tucker (2009) Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as sacred community. Sierra Club Books
• Bigwood, C. (1993). Earth muse: Feminism, Nature and art. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
• Bishop, P. (1990). The greening of psychology: The vegetable world in myth, dream and healing. Dallas, Texas: Spring Publications.
• Bohm, D. (1998). On creativity. New York: Routledge.
• Briggs, J. (1992). Fractals The patterns of chaos: Discovering a new aesthetic of art, science and Nature. Toronto: Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster.
• Carson, R. (1956). A sense of wonder. New York: Harper & Row Publishers.
• Clinebell, H. J. (1996). Ecotherapy: Healing ourselves, healing the earth. New York.: Haworth Press.
• Cobb, E. (1977). The ecology of imagination in childhood. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Cohen, M. (1997). Reconnecting with Nature: Finding wellness through restoring your bond with the earth. Corvallis, Oregon: Ecopress
• Coleman, M. (2006). Awake in the wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a path of self-discovery. San Francisco: Inner Ocean Publishing.
• Colquhoun, M. & Ewald, A. (1996) New eyes for plants: A workbook for observing and drawing plants. Gloustershire, UK: Hawthorn Press
• Conforti, M. (1999). Field, form and fate: Patterns in mind, Nature and psyche. Woodstock, Connecticut: Spring Publications Inc.
• Cubley, S. & M. Cassou (    ) Life, paint and passion.
• Devereux, P. (1996). Re-Visioning the earth: A guide to opening the healing channels between mind and Nature. New York: Schuster.
• Dissanayake, E. (1992). Homo aestheticus: Where art comes from and why. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
• Dissanayake, E. (1995). What is art for? Seattle, University of Washington Press.
• Dissanayake, E. (2000). Art and intimacy: How the arts began. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
• Duer, H. P. (1985). Dreamtime: Concerning the boundary between wilderness and civilization. Trans. Felicitas Goodman, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
• Elkins, J. (1996). The object stares back: On the Nature of seeing. New York: Simon and Schuster.
• Elkins, J. (2000). What painting is: How to think about oil painting, using the language of alchemy. New York: Routledge.
• Exeter, N. (1988). Magic at our hand: Releasing our lives into order and beauty. B. C.: Foundation House Publications.
• Gablik, S. (1991). The re-enchantment of art. New York: Thames and Hudson.
• Gablik, S. (1995). Conversations before the end of time. New York: Thames and Hudson.
• Glendinning, C. (1994). My name is Chellis and I’m in recovery from western civilization. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications.
• Gendler, J Ruth (2007) Notes on the need for beauty: An intimate look at an essential quality. Decapo Press
• Gore, A. (2006) An inconvenient truth: The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press.
• Griffin, S. (1978). Women and Nature: The roaring inside her. New York: Harper & Row.
• Haekel, E. (1904). Art forms in Nature. New York: Prestel
• Halifax, J. (1993). The fruitful darkness: A journey through Buddhist practice and tribal wisdom. New York: Grove Press.
• Hillman, J. (1997). Dream animals. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.
• Kellen-Taylor, M. (1998). Imagination and the world: A call for ecological expressive therapies. The Arts in Pstchotherapy, 25(5), 303-311.
• Kellen-Taylor, M. (1998). Mindscape into landscapes: Towards changing worldview. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, California Institute of Integral Studies.
• Kidner, D. (1998). Culture and the unconscious in environmental ethics. Environmental Ethics 20(1) Spring, 61-80.
• Kornfield, J. (!993). A path with heart: A guide through the perils and promises of spiritual life. New York: Bantam Books.
• Kryder, R.P. (1994). Sacred ground to sacred space: Visionary ecology, perennial wisdom, environmental ritual and art. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bear and Company Publishing.
• LaChapelle, D. (1988). Sacred land, sacred sex, rapture of the deep: Concerning deep ecology and celebrating life. Silverton, Colorado: Finn Hill Arts.
• LaChapelle, D. (1992). Not laws of Nature but Li (pattern) of Nature. In M. Oeschlaeger (Ed) The wilderness condition: Essays on environment and civilization. (pp. 220-244) Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
• Laura, R. S. & Cotton M. C. (1999). Empathic education: An ecological perspective on educational knowledge. Philadelphia PA: Falmer Press.
• Lipsett, L. (2004) Creative by Nature: Painting in communion with the earth. In Thomas Berry Tribute Book, monograph
• Lipsett, L. (2002) On Speaking Terms Again, In Expanding the Boundaries of Transformative Learning: Essays On Theory and Praxis; O’Sullivan et.al. (Eds.), Putnam
• Lipsett, L. (2001) Painting Fear, Gatherings 5, International Community for Ecopsychology
• Lipsett, L. (2001) The Burying Place, Gatherings, 4, ICE
• Lipsett, L. (2000) Cecropian Still Life, Gatherings, 2, ICE
• London, P. (2003). Drawing closer to Nature: Making art in dialogue with the natural world. Boston & London:Shambhala Publications Inc.
• London, P. (1989). No more secondhand art. Shambhala Publications
• Macy, J. (1991). World as lover, world as self. Berkeley, Calif.: Parallax Press.
• Macy, J. (1999). Coming back to life: Practices to reconnect our lives, our world. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers.
• Mandelbrot, B. (1983). The fractal geometry of Nature. New York: Freeman.
• Manes, C. (1995b). Making art about centipedes. In S. Gablik. Conversations before the end of time. (pp. 100-108). New York: Thames and Hudson.
• McLuhan, T. C. (1994). The way of the earth: Encounters with Nature in ancient and contemporary thought. New York: Simon and Schuster.
• McNiff, S. (2004). Art heals: How creativity cures the soul . Massachusetts: Shambhala Press.
• Metzner, R. (1995). The psychopathology of the human-earth relationship. In T. Roszak, M. E. Gomes, & A. D. Kanner (Eds.) Ecopsychology: Restoring the earth, healing the mind. (pp. 55-67). San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
• Nachmanovitch, S. (1990). Free play: Improvisation in life and art. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc.
• Naherniak, C. (1991). Wildness and domestication: An exploration of self. Unpublished Masters Thesis, Department of Environmental Studies, York University Toronto, Canada.
• Narby, J. (2005). Intelligence in Nature: An inquiry into knowledge. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Penguin.
• Narby, J. & Huxley, F. (2001). Shamans through time: 500 years on the path to knowledge.. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Penguin.
• Narby, J. (1998). The cosmic serpent: DNA and the origins of knowledge. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Putnam.
• O`Neill E. (2003). Holding Flames: Women Illuminating Knowledge of s/Self Transformation. In: Learning Towards Ecological Consciousness; Selected Transformative Practices. Palgrave Press. New York.
• Orr, David W. (1994) Earth in Mind. Washington: Island Press.
• Pinkola-Estes, C. (1992). Women who run with the wolves: Myths and stories of the wild woman archetype. New York: Ballantine Books.
• Reichel-Dolmatoff, G. (1996). The forest within: The worldview of the Tukano Amazonian Indians. Devon, UK: Themis Books.
• Roszak, T. (1992). The voice of the earth. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Roszak, T., Gomes, M. E., & Kanner A. D. (1995). Ecopsychology: Restoring the earth, healing the mind. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
• Sahtouris, E. (1999). Earthdance: Living systems in evolution. Online Book (www.ratical.org/Lifeweb)
• Saito, Y. (1998). Appreciating Nature on its own terms. Environmental Ethics 20(2), Summer, 135-149.
• Seed, J., Macy, J. Fleming, P. & Naess, A. (1988). Thinking like a mountain: Toward a council of all beings. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers.
• Selby, D. (2000). The signature of the whole: Radical interconnectedness and its implications for global and environmental education. Connections 25(1), Fall, 16-25.
• Sewell, L. (1999). Sight and sensibility: The ecopsychology of perception. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Putnam.
• Stone, M. & Barlow, Z. (2005 ) Ecological Literacy: Educating our children for a sustainable world. California: Sierra Club Books.
• Swimme, B. (1984). The Universe is a green dragon: A cosmic creation story. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bear & Co.
• Swimme, B. & Berry T. (1992). The universe story. San Francisco: Harper Collins.
• Thomashow, M. (1996). Ecological identity: Becoming a reflective environmentalist. Massachusetts: MIT Press.
• Wyly, J. (1988). Abstract art and the unconscious. Quadrant XXIII 1:23-33.
• Yanagi, S. (1972). The unknown craftsman: A Japanese insight into beauty. Tokyo: Kondansha International.