BAAT Conference |Workshop| ABR+A: The arts of making sense by Deborah Green
Deborah Green's Workshop Rationale : Arts-Based Research through Autoethnography (ABR+A) makes sense of art therapy by inviting heart+head+body+soul+context+theory into creative conversations. I story-tell ABR+A journeys as we use playful ABR+Aesque processes to explore pre-journey jitters+joysm, traverse topographic highs+lows, and gaze back upon emergent map/s visible only at journey s end. In this proposed training workshop, I lean into arts-based processes and cast myself as a weaver of stories, a montage assembler (Yardley. 2008), stitching together storied accounts of ABR+A that contain both factual and fictional re-craftings (Leavy, 2013) alongside artworks and photographic images. Following this, participants will be invited to use creative and playful ABR+A processes to express and explore their own lived experiences of research. My experience: When I first entered the workshop room to start setting up (I was an assistant volu