Writing & Perspective

This writing forms part of the Arc & Anchor practice. Grounded in expressive arts research and global creative work, it examines how creative expression shapes human health and experience, influencing our capacity for connection, resilience, and meaning across individual, relational, and cultural contexts.

This space is for those interested in how creativity functions within human systems, including our bodies, relationships, communities, and cultural life, and how these practices are being engaged across disciplines and borders.

How this writing is approached

These pieces bridge expressive arts research, lived creative practice, and global examples of arts-based work. It is non-clinical and reflective in nature, intended to inform, contextualize, and invite thoughtful engagement rather than offer instruction or treatment.

Creativity in social and cultural context

This writing also engages creativity as a cultural and relational practice, raising questions of care, access, belonging, and participation in everyday creative life. These reflections consider how social contexts, policies, and cultural narratives shape who has access to creative life, how participation is supported or constrained, and how care is expressed through creative practice.

Areas of Inquiry

Creativity & Human Experience

An exploration of creativity as a fundamental human capacity, this pathway examines how creative expression shapes our nervous systems, relationships, sense-making, and wellbeing, drawing on expressive arts research, psychology, neuroscience, and cultural practice.

Expressive Arts in Practice (Global)

This area of inquiry looks at how creative practices are being engaged in real-world contexts. This pathway explores how expressive arts approaches are used across healthcare, education, community, and cultural settings, highlighting patterns, tensions, and possibilities emerging from practice.

Practice-adjacent reflections

Here, reflective writing emerges alongside creative practice. This space includes field notes, observations, and short-form essays that trace questions, insights, and tensions arising through facilitation, research, and engagement with creative process.

Recent Writing

Writing will appear here as pieces are published.

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This writing develops over time, alongside the broader Arc & Anchor practice. If you’d like to receive occasional reflections or new pieces as they’re published, you’re welcome to stay connected.