Exploring Creative Wellbeing Frameworks in Context Nature, Culture, and Sustainable Futures

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2025; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Explorations in Mental Health
• Subjects: action competence; aesthetics; anthropocentric; Clinical psychology; creative wellbeing; Creativity; culture; eco-philosophy; eco-psychology; Ecopoiesis; Education; Educational administration and organization; indigenous Sami perspectives; innovation; interdisciplinarity; life skills; Medical specialties, branches of medicine; Medicine and Nursing; Moral and social purpose of education; NaKuHel; nature; nature-culture-health; natureculture; Nordic perspective; Philosophy and theory of education; posthumanism; posthumanist; Psychiatry; Psychology; Psychotherapy; Self-help; sensory ethnographic approach; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; sustainability; Teaching of a specific subject; transformation; Vygotskian sociocultural perspectives of creativity; wellbeing; anthropocentric; eco-psychology; Nordic perspective; action competence; indigenous Sami perspectives; natureculture; Ecopoiesis; wellbeing; creativity; innovation; art; nature; life skills; aesthetics; transformation; sustainability; interdisciplinarity; Vygotskian sociocultural perspectives of creativity; eco-philosophy; creative wellbeing; NaKuHel; sensory ethnographic approach; posthumanism; culture; nature-culture-health; posthumanist
• ISBN: 9781032278896; 1032278897; 9781032278889; 1032278889; 1040269273; 9781040269206; 9781003294498; 1003294499; 9781040269275; 1040269206
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003294498

This timely edited monograph develops conceptual frameworks for creative wellbeing, exploring the impact on people’s lives and its contribution to a sustainable future, by examining case studies of how creative wellbeing is practised in a variety of contexts. Using sociocultural perspectives of creativity, the authors call to attention everyday wellbeing and the possibilities for a rich life using creative wellbeing as an action competence. Chapters use a diverse range of epistemological positions, embracing quantitative, qualitative, and posthumanist methodologies to explore how integrated nature-culture perspectives can enhance the understanding of creative wellbeing when informed by engagement in natural contexts, but also by the deep connection between nature and culture in creating meaning. Ultimately furthering research into creative wellbeing, improving practice, and inspiring nature and culture practices for all, this book will be of benefit to researchers, postgraduate students, and scholars interested in creative approaches to mental health, positive psychology, and environmental psychology, and creativity and transcendence more broadly.