Main description:

Draws from feminist Earth-based and Indigenous worldviews supported by healing and transformational, and arts and place-based methods. Authors have been honing these methods for more than 30 years. Offers practices that can be adapted for numerous community-based settings.

Contents:

Foreword: Bracha L. Ettinger; Preface; PART 1: Communidreaming on Theory; 1: Introduction: Art-as-Process; 2: Care-in-the-Making; 3: Creativity-in-Communion; 4: A Story of Collaboration: Spontaneous Creation-Making; 5: Art-Care and Spiritual Activism in a Time of Crisis; 6: Beyond Method: Matrixial Mediators; 7: Birthing a Matrixial Gift Economy; 8: Matrixial Time Freedom; PART 2: Spontaneous Creating on Practice; 9: Spontaneous Creation-Making: Communal Rituals and Expanding Imaginaries; 10: Spontaneous Creation-Making: Orienting Intentions and Body Grounding; 11: Spontaneous Creation-Making: Responding and Closing the Circle; PART 3: Gestating on Service; 12: Nurturing a Communal Art-Care Practice; 13: An Arts-Based Reenchantment: Following Nature; 14: Afterword: Forging New Intersections by Geraldine Burke; 15: A Turnabout Postscript; Appendix 1: Thirteen Matrixial Aesthetic Practices; Appendix 2: Facilitating Art-Care Online; Appendix 3: A-D-ness Model by R. Michael Fisher; Appendix 4: Excerpt from Opening Doors: A Guidebook to Spontaneous Creation-Making; Appendix 5: Participant-Informed Research Creation Consent Form