Walking With: An Emerging Dialogue with Art Therapists in the Cultural Commons

We are delighted to announce the publication of Walking With: An Emerging Dialogue with Art Therapists in the Cultural Commons, compiled by Tzafi Weinberg and Monica Carpendale.

Walking With: An Emerging Dialog with Art Therapists in the Cultural Commons
Compiled by Tzafi Weinberg and Monica Carpendale

Walking With is a unique compilation of writings and art from nine geographical and culturally diverse groups of people. In her Foreword, Dr. Lynn Kapitan writes: 

 “The circle of storytellers by the campfire grows larger as more and more people come to rest, reflect, dream, and commit to walk with one another. ‘Listen,’ I hear them say. ‘It is time to learn our history and shape a new story for our future. We all are still growing; there is still so much to learn. Sit beside us in our sharing what it means to do our work within and upon this land.’” 

“I read their words in each chapter and imagine the world as they see and feel it. I stretch out my arms to them, as if in that gesture I could hold the wide expanse of the horizon that spans a continent, and feel both the bracing cold and the thawing heart together…” 

“There is still a need to liberate art therapy from its decontextualized, monocultural orientation. I thank Tzafi, Monica, and all the authors of this text for honouring our multiple ways of knowing and being, and for recovering and moving art therapy forward along Indigenous, decolonial, postcolonial, antiracist, and transnational pathways.” 

Collectively, we are experiencing seismic shifts in our communities and our cultures. Art therapy has the potential and the power to accept, honour, and validate our differences and diversity, to heal trauma and encourage creativity during these turbulent times.  

This work explores the theory and practice of art therapy, cultural differences, ethics in art therapy, the business of art therapy, and Open Studio models. Tzafi Weinberg and Monica Carpendale have created a wonderful space for a diverse gathering of writers and art therapists to explore how art therapy can be a common ground between cultures for communication, connection, and healing.  

This 377-page 8x10 full colour textbook is now available directly from KATI as well as through Amazon. If you live in the Nelson area, please come by the office for a copy of the book. The retail price for Walking With is $100; 25% of net profits will fund IBPOC scholarships at KATI.