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Availability & Cost
The MIECAT Research Papers multimedia CD is available for
purchase at a cost of AUD$30 including postage and handling (AUD$25 to MIECAT
students). Copies can be ordered from our Melbourne office).
About the CD
Nearly a decade in production, this CD contains a wealth
of research material dating all the way back to the genesis of the MIECAT
approach to experiential & creative arts therapy.
The CD has been created to auto-start upon loading in the CD/DVD drive of a Windows®
PC and uses a web-interface for easy navigation. Apple Mac® and Linux® users
can access content, however this requires manual starting of the web interface.)
Content
There are four papers contained on the CD:
Intersubjective & Multimodal Inquiry: The Arts of Resonance
- Commencing in 1992 at
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia this magnum opus contains the
heart of what is now considered the "MIECAT approach to Experiential
& Creative Arts Therapy."
- A large paper using extensive material collected
from post-graduate creative arts therapy masters students assimilated over
a three-year period. Both personal and client material is used and thus
identities have been concealed. The paper is a conjunctive presentation
of two smaller research papers.
- The first paper "Dialogues at the Edges"
reports on the progress of a small group of colleagues working, studying
and teaching across the fields of the arts, counselling, teaching and learning.
The co-researchers came together to explore and research their own experiencing
of personal learning in a programme titled "Self as Therapist."
- The second paper "The Arts of Resonance"
builds upon the work done in the first. The colleagues moved into a larger
group to implement and develop further the inquiry into personal meanings
found in life experiences. Over a two-year period, this group met regularly,
committed to the exploration of a variety of approaches, techniques and
variations of forms of inquiry into personal experiencing, still set in
social interactions. Data collected was so extensive that of fifteen completed
and researched self-inquiry protocols, only five are presented fully.
- The major import of these studies lies in the development
of procedures of inquiry into personal knowing. It is not a theory of personal
experiencing, but makes potential contributions to the procedures that may
be used in the exploration of experiencing, and to an epistemological conception
of ways of knowing, incorporating the various modes of knowing into an integrative
connectedness.
- Included are dozens of original artwork images,
four recordings of musical improvisations and two movement/drama videos.
- 350+ pages.
Intersubjective & Multimodal Inquiry: A Experiential Procedure
- Originally presented at the conference on Phenomenological
Research, Trondheim, Norway, 1996.
- Paper discusses concepts of the therapist/client
dialogue as a narrative with voices not unlike those in a theatrical performance.
This is then expanded upon to include the full process of inquiry: entry
points, the creation of texts, indwellings over time, depictions of meaning
and creative synthesis. A brief discussion of current concepts of intersubjectivity
then follows.
- 19 pages.
Experiential & Creative Arts Therapy Learning: The
Depiction of Experiential Learning of Graduate Students
- Originally presented at the Forms of Inquiry conference,
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 1995.
- Paper uses programmatic material from first-year
creative arts therapy masters students as a basis for discussion of the
value of learning experientially. Issues covered include: preconceptions
of experiential methodologies and the associated dangers of these preconceptions,
what it was student felt they had learned, how they felt they had fared
(learned) and the actual student understandings of the process.
- 41 pages.
Experiential & Creative Arts Therapy Learning: Grounded
Theory / Conceptualisation
- Originally presented at the Forms of Inquiry conference,
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 1995.
- Paper uses an array of material from eleven students
as a basis for discussion of conceptions of the kinds of learning that are
created experientially in a creative arts therapy context. The term "Grounded
Theory" (after Guba & Lincoln, 1985; Glasser & Struass, 1967)
refers to the idea of moving from description of being-in-experience to
a conceptualisation-from-outside experience.
- 37 pages.