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        Social dreaming and creativity in South Africa : Imagi(ni)ng the unthought known

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        Berman, Hayley
        Manley, Julian
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        2299/20601
        Abstract
        In this chapter, we introduce social dreaming and image-making as a visual research method illuminating some of the more unconscious and latent psychic textures of the complexities of the South African psyche and the resilience and creativity that can emerge. The process makes manifest realms of experience that can be actively spoken about, engaged with, and utilised as a public story with the potential to bring about social justice and a reflective social engagement. It also facilitates understanding and experience as channelled through collective acts of transformation that might usefully be applied to other situations afflicted by acts of violence leading to trauma. The data used in this chapter come from on-going art therapy programmes for processing traumatic processes in South Africa. These programmes form part of the Lefika la Phodiso -‘The Rock of Healing’ – project in Johannesburg. Lefika was founded by Hayley Berman to contribute to the process of healing trauma through art therapy. Lefika’s training programme empowers community workers to work psychodynamically and creatively in groups as ‘Community Art Counsellors’ (CAC) (Berman 2011; 2016)
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        2018-09-01
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        Violent States and Creative States - From the Global to the Individual
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        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/20601
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