Journal articles

Authored by McCoy, Nikki

Author Title Issue Keywords Abstract Sequence
Cassidy, Reitu; Close, Helen; Howard, Katherine; McCoy, Nikki; Merhtens, Jean; Pelvin, Bronwen Magical writing (PDF, 234.5 KB) Journal 33 December 2024 auxiliary, director, love, protagonist, role, soul “Now that’s the book I want to read!”. These words spoken by Geneen Marie Haugen at the “Writing the Wild Soul” workshop in November 2017 activated a sequence of roles in me over the following years. Geneen is a well-known poet writer who lives on the west coast of America — she had come to Australia to run this 4-day residential workshop. Geneen spoke these words in response to my reading of a piece of writing I had completed in the workshop, “a Letter to my Beloved”. 4 2024-12
McCoy, Nikki Living not Acting (PDF, 43.0 KB) Journal 32 December 2023 In the second session of a group I was running with Aboriginal men who had acted violently, we did a Psychodrama with one man who had been in a previous group and was very familiar with Psychodrama. He had recently returned to my group and had a big yearning to explore why he kept doing the same thing again and again. 3 2023-12