Section 1: Foundations: Creative Practice as Wellbeing in Academia 1. A call for change: Creative and making practices as essential practices to support wellbeing and the transformative potential of education. Narelle Lemon, Sharon McDonough, and Mark Selkrig 2. Reviving the Creative Academic: Integrating the Creative Being and Values Flow Models to Promote Wellbeing in Higher Education Cedomir Ignjatovic, Katie Beresford, and Margaret L. Kern 3. Intersecting Identities and the Pracademic Paradigm Cheri Flewell-Smith 4. Comic-making as Wellbeing: Supporting International Students during Professional Experience Fiona Boylan and Karen Nociti Section 2: Embodied Knowledge: Sensory and Physical Dimensions of Making 5. Thinking Through the Ground: Art, Ecology, and Relational Wellbeing Cassandra Tytler 6. Exploring Experiences and Impacts of Creative Arts Therapies Catherine Oxworth 7. Embodied Connections Conversation Series: Women's Conversations in Landscape and Climate through Collaborative Nature-based Photographic Practices Alyson Agar 8. From Family Legacy to Care: An Autoethnographic Journey of Music and Memory Simone Marino Section 3: Relational Making: Collaborative and Community Approaches 9. Ex:Change - Validating Conversations about Waste and Sustainability through Craft Joanna Rucklidge and Wendy Ward 10. New Ways of Workshopping: Research-based Theatre and Collaborative Creativity for Wellbeing Richard Sallis, Chris Summers, and Prue Wales 11. Filmmaking 'With' as a Creative Process that Uses Relational Ideas of Care Catherine Gough-Brady 12. Providing a Voice: Using Creative Ethnographic Collaborative Methodologies to Explore and Represent Cultural Heritage in the Commonplace. Maxine Beuret Section 4: Identity and Transformation: Navigating Academic Life Through Making 13. Moving through Liminal Space: Visual Journaling as a Creative Ritual and Spiritual Practice Christopher M. Strickland and Jane E. Dalton 14. Creativity Under Constraint: The Academic Struggle and the Need for Systemic Reform Bronte van der Hoorn 15. Loki's Tail Karen Kenny 16. Navigating Academia with a Design Mindset: A Project of Ambiguity, Prototyping, and Failures
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