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Creative writing has been a mainstay of my career as a music researcher, author, and occupational therapist. I love crafting words into descriptions of the environments that  I belong to, within: galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM sector), and working from home.  My clients each have unique environments in which they study, work, live, recreate, and socialise. Our social environment is our creative milieu--the context in which we meet,  collaborate for research, writing, or therapy. Being and Becoming Writers Each person brings their own unique lens to their creative writing milieu. Listening and describing our surroundings is creative and empirical--based on what we see, hear, smell, taste. Our feelings and thoughts are complex, built from our experience, recollections, conscious and unconscious ideas. We respond in various ways, and we can choose to select aspects which we want to share with others, or ignore. This is our focus and our intentions for writ...

  Making Neurons: Music Health Connections Karen Benjamin, Artist The activity was used to better understand and creatively explore the neural structures of the brain in relation to music-making. We worked collaboratively with Karen Benjamin (artist), music and health professionals. Karen Benjamin led this creative workshop during the 2015 Brain Waves, Music Health Australia gathering at Moreton Bay Research Station on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). Karen is a Brisbane-based, self taught artist that recycles plastic materials into astounding creative works. http://www.karenbenjaminartist.com/   EQUIPMENT NEEDED : Recycled plastic bags, scissors, pipe cleaners, heat gun and extension cord. Take one grey recycled plastic bag and scrunch it into a ball.   Tie ball together with strips of plarn (yarn made from plastic). Slip pipe cleaners through plarn and twist to make dendrites and dendrite branches. Wrap ball and pipe cleaners with thick ...