TY - JOUR AU - Allie Manners AU - Arijana Ruznic-Beyer AU - Ayaka Shima AU - Beth McGuinness AU - Brett Harrington AU - Carrie Leigh AU - Danielle Mitchell AU - Eve Cunnane AU - Istvan Csata AU - Judy O’Byrne AU - Julie Dobson AU - Louise Morton AU - Mary Weir AU - Naomi Pears-Scown AU - Renee Barker AU - Rosa Heney AU - Ruth Foulkes AU - Sarah Moore AU - Scarlett Jeong AU - Serena Corless PY - 2018/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A Living Quilt: The Journey of a Cohort of Emerging Arts Therapists in Aotearoa JF - Creative Arts in Education and Therapy (CAET) JA - CAET VL - 0 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://caet.inspirees.com/caetojsjournals/index.php/caet/article/view/144 AB - Creative Arts Educ Ther (2018) 4(2):118–130 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2018/4/19A Living Quilt: The Journey of a Cohort of Emerging Arts Therapists in AotearoaAbstractThis article traces the collaborative creation of a final gift–a symbolic weighted quilt–recently given by a cohort of third year trainee arts therapists to their faculty and fellow students. The article uses poetry and narrative to present and explore the process of this group of emerging arts therapists being woven together via their experiences of creativity, uncertainty and trust during their time on the Master of Arts in Arts Therapy program. It notes the interconnectivity between the singular and shared identities found during this journey, and explores the precious, expansive, and universal nature of the arts therapy experience and profession. This creative collaboration is a representation of the experience of student arts therapists who, having been soaked in the heavy liquids of creative encounters and felted together as a community, are now on the cusp of taking this deep fluid identity and experience out into the wider community. ER -