Enhancing intergroup dialogues through art and art therapy

TL;DR: Community art therapy (CAT) graduate students experienced a shift from clinical to community models, emphasizing the potential of art to influence communities in distress.

TL;DR: The study explored the experiences of civilian participants who viewed a veteran art exhibition and engaged in responsive art making. The outcomes demonstrated that the interventions promoted empathy and understanding, engagement with veterans, and increased support for veterans.

TL;DR: Analysis suggests that the organization’s intentional arts based practices bring multiple understandings of community and art into meaningful dialogue through the generation of creative and social friction.

TL;DR: Hytten et al. as mentioned in this paper argue that while driven by compelling macro social and political visions, social justice teachers do not pay sufficient attention to the moral dimensions of micro, classroom-level interactions in their work.

TL;DR: The humanistic approach to mediation developed in parallel to Bush and Folger's transformative mediation in the 1990s as mentioned in this paper, which emphasizes a greater departure from skill-based techniques and gives less attention to problem solving.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the arts can activate four component elements: narrativity, compassion, storytelling, and empowerment of marginalised members of society, and advocate efforts focussed on holistic citizenship.