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.

• ForewordMary-Jayne RustAcknowledgementsIntroduction by the editorsIan Siddons Heginworth and Gary NashPart I Environmental arts therapy in contextChapter 1. Turning: the emergence and growth of environmental arts therapy in the British IslesIan Siddons HeginworthChapter 2. Weaving the threads of theory and experience: a review of the literatureGary NashPart II Childhood, love and attachment: the heart of the matterChapter 3. The wild inside: offering children natural materials and an ecopsychological understanding of self within art therapyLydia BoonChapter 4. EarthWays: Environmental arts therapy for repairing insecure attachment and developing creative response-ability in an insecure world Lia PontonChapter 5. Bringing the outside in: reflecting upon mother within a pilot group in environmental arts therapyMichelle EdinburghPart 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 illnessSusie ThompsonChapter 7. The wood between the worlds: encountering the wounded healer in environmental arts therapyWilliam SecretanChapter 8. The tapping on the window: environmental arts therapy and the integrated selfAuriel EagletonPart IV The cycle of the year: working with the seasonsChapter 9. Taking art therapy outdoors: a Circle of TreesGary NashChapter 10. Creating connections: introducing environmental arts therapy in to London’s green spacesSimon WoodwardChapter 11. Space to move, explore and create: taking art therapy into the outdoor environment in adult mental health servicesPamela StanleyPart V Elderhood and endings: the wild road onChapter 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 careHannah MonteiroChapter 13. Growing elders: the cultivation and collaboration of an elder women’s group in the woodsDeborah Kelly and Vanessa JonesEpilogueIan Siddons Heginworth

"The deep connection with nature’s capacity for healing is intrinsic to all life throughout history and across all cultures. In recent times there has been renewed interest from psychotherapists to work with clients in nature. In this exciting new book, arts therapists Ian Siddons Heginworth and Gary Nash have chosen a collection of essays on Environmental Arts Therapy introducing new fresh voices to the discipline. As the practice develops and each Environmental Arts therapist forges a way with diverse emerging perspectives, there is simultaneously a return to older traditions where the wise elders are taking people back into nature for healing and growth. Our flourishing community of Environmental Arts therapists describe and reflect on their various considered and creative approaches."- Hephzibah Kaplan, Art Therapist and Director of the London Art Therapy Centre"This book is an exciting addition to the growing literature on environmental arts therapies. The editors show how this movement has become an established form of arts therapy, drawing on previous work by others, and leading to their environmental arts therapy course, the first of its kind, based on the cycle of the year. The book also contains fresh voices taking environmental arts therapies into new contexts. At a time of global environmental crisis, this book paves the way to a new way of envisioning therapy, showing the benefits of taking people and therapy out into nature, or bringing nature into the therapy room. It reminds us of the importance of our environment – not an optional extra but the ground of our being."- Dr Marian Liebmann, OBE, Art Therapist, teacher and author of art therapy books

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.

• ForewordMary-Jayne RustAcknowledgementsIntroduction by the editorsIan Siddons Heginworth and Gary NashPart I Environmental arts therapy in contextChapter 1. Turning: the emergence and growth of environmental arts therapy in the British IslesIan Siddons HeginworthChapter 2. Weaving the threads of theory and experience: a review of the literatureGary NashPart II Childhood, love and attachment: the heart of the matterChapter 3. The wild inside: offering children natural materials and an ecopsychological understanding of self within art therapyLydia BoonChapter 4. EarthWays: Environmental arts therapy for repairing insecure attachment and developing creative response-ability in an insecure world Lia PontonChapter 5. Bringing the outside in: reflecting upon mother within a pilot group in environmental arts therapyMichelle EdinburghPart 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 illnessSusie ThompsonChapter 7. The wood between the worlds: encountering the wounded healer in environmental arts therapyWilliam SecretanChapter 8. The tapping on the window: environmental arts therapy and the integrated selfAuriel EagletonPart IV The cycle of the year: working with the seasonsChapter 9. Taking art therapy outdoors: a Circle of TreesGary NashChapter 10. Creating connections: introducing environmental arts therapy in to London’s green spacesSimon WoodwardChapter 11. Space to move, explore and create: taking art therapy into the outdoor environment in adult mental health servicesPamela StanleyPart V Elderhood and endings: the wild road onChapter 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 careHannah MonteiroChapter 13. Growing elders: the cultivation and collaboration of an elder women’s group in the woodsDeborah Kelly and Vanessa JonesEpilogueIan Siddons Heginworth

"The deep connection with nature’s capacity for healing is intrinsic to all life throughout history and across all cultures. In recent times there has been renewed interest from psychotherapists to work with clients in nature. In this exciting new book, arts therapists Ian Siddons Heginworth and Gary Nash have chosen a collection of essays on Environmental Arts Therapy introducing new fresh voices to the discipline. As the practice develops and each Environmental Arts therapist forges a way with diverse emerging perspectives, there is simultaneously a return to older traditions where the wise elders are taking people back into nature for healing and growth. Our flourishing community of Environmental Arts therapists describe and reflect on their various considered and creative approaches."- Hephzibah Kaplan, Art Therapist and Director of the London Art Therapy Centre"This book is an exciting addition to the growing literature on environmental arts therapies. The editors show how this movement has become an established form of arts therapy, drawing on previous work by others, and leading to their environmental arts therapy course, the first of its kind, based on the cycle of the year. The book also contains fresh voices taking environmental arts therapies into new contexts. At a time of global environmental crisis, this book paves the way to a new way of envisioning therapy, showing the benefits of taking people and therapy out into nature, or bringing nature into the therapy room. It reminds us of the importance of our environment – not an optional extra but the ground of our being."- Dr Marian Liebmann, OBE, Art Therapist, teacher and author of art therapy books

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.

• ForewordMary-Jayne RustAcknowledgementsIntroduction by the editorsIan Siddons Heginworth and Gary NashPart I Environmental arts therapy in contextChapter 1. Turning: the emergence and growth of environmental arts therapy in the British IslesIan Siddons HeginworthChapter 2. Weaving the threads of theory and experience: a review of the literatureGary NashPart II Childhood, love and attachment: the heart of the matterChapter 3. The wild inside: offering children natural materials and an ecopsychological understanding of self within art therapyLydia BoonChapter 4. EarthWays: Environmental arts therapy for repairing insecure attachment and developing creative response-ability in an insecure world Lia PontonChapter 5. Bringing the outside in: reflecting upon mother within a pilot group in environmental arts therapyMichelle EdinburghPart 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 illnessSusie ThompsonChapter 7. The wood between the worlds: encountering the wounded healer in environmental arts therapyWilliam SecretanChapter 8. The tapping on the window: environmental arts therapy and the integrated selfAuriel EagletonPart IV The cycle of the year: working with the seasonsChapter 9. Taking art therapy outdoors: a Circle of TreesGary NashChapter 10. Creating connections: introducing environmental arts therapy in to London’s green spacesSimon WoodwardChapter 11. Space to move, explore and create: taking art therapy into the outdoor environment in adult mental health servicesPamela StanleyPart V Elderhood and endings: the wild road onChapter 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 careHannah MonteiroChapter 13. Growing elders: the cultivation and collaboration of an elder women’s group in the woodsDeborah Kelly and Vanessa JonesEpilogueIan Siddons Heginworth

"The deep connection with nature’s capacity for healing is intrinsic to all life throughout history and across all cultures. In recent times there has been renewed interest from psychotherapists to work with clients in nature. In this exciting new book, arts therapists Ian Siddons Heginworth and Gary Nash have chosen a collection of essays on Environmental Arts Therapy introducing new fresh voices to the discipline. As the practice develops and each Environmental Arts therapist forges a way with diverse emerging perspectives, there is simultaneously a return to older traditions where the wise elders are taking people back into nature for healing and growth. Our flourishing community of Environmental Arts therapists describe and reflect on their various considered and creative approaches."- Hephzibah Kaplan, Art Therapist and Director of the London Art Therapy Centre"This book is an exciting addition to the growing literature on environmental arts therapies. The editors show how this movement has become an established form of arts therapy, drawing on previous work by others, and leading to their environmental arts therapy course, the first of its kind, based on the cycle of the year. The book also contains fresh voices taking environmental arts therapies into new contexts. At a time of global environmental crisis, this book paves the way to a new way of envisioning therapy, showing the benefits of taking people and therapy out into nature, or bringing nature into the therapy room. It reminds us of the importance of our environment – not an optional extra but the ground of our being."- Dr Marian Liebmann, OBE, Art Therapist, teacher and author of art therapy books