Art-educ-searcher?

SPACES OF CARE
Sally Hernández
 Heal Within

DISSOCIATION

The body keeps the score Change

Safe spaces context
Psychological violence

Inter-generational
trauma
 Trauma and violence in society

How to work with these issues ?

Fight or flight re-enact trauma
The need for safe spaces

My research for a safe space within was complemented by changing the context

NETWORKS OF CARE
 Ice-Breaker : what would you say is your current network Of care ?
where would you place it?

Place the different post-its

numbering them from 1
(highest) to 4 ( lowest) in Work
accordance with how Familiar context Friends Other groups
environment
important you would say
your network of care is in
these spaces.

In other, please specify by

writing a word
 Discrimination Allow creativity flow
Inequality Well-being

trauma
From Safe space For community

Violence Learning

Opression Inclusion
 Safe spaces within Safe spaces context

Licensed psychotherapist Community

Self-care Physical space

Self-compassion System
Resting adapted

Communities in the arts Pedagogies of care

Emotions, Social self CONTEXT
Personal identity
feelings

CONDITIONED BY
CONTEXT

EXPRESS

TRANSFORM
“A space can feel safe for members of one group (e.g., race, class, age,
gender) but un safe for others. These feelings are not universal”
(Cisneros and Bracho,2020, p.1495).

Ever-changing always re-evaluating

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 References
HIGHLY CONFESSIONAL ART
https://susanaskewdrawing.wordpress.com/researchforexercises/essay-part-one-confessional-art/

SAFE SPACES
Holttum, S., Chamberlain, M., Hollamby, E., Homer, E., Landes, J., Hackett, S., ... & Zhvitiashvili, N. (2020). Art therapy in
museums and galleries: Reframing practice. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Cisneros, J. and Bracho, C. (2020) ‘Undocuqueer Stress: How Safe are "Safe" Spaces, and for Whom?’, Journal of
homosexuality, 67(11), pp. 1491–1511. doi:10.1080/00918369.2019.1607684.

Noterman, E. (2014) ‘Safe Space: Towards a Reconceptualization’, Antipode, 46(5), pp. 1346–1365.
doi:10.1111/anti.12089.

PEDAGOGIES OF TAKING CARE

Atkinson, Dennis. Pedagogies of taking care: Art, pedagogy and the gift of otherness. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE

Van der Kolk, B.A. (2015) The body keeps the score mind, brain and body in the transformation of trauma. UK: Penguin
Books.
 MindMeister to add to the collective mind Map

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