Open Access
Published: September 2025
Licence: CC BY-NC-4.0
Issue: Vol.20, No.2
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September 2025
Cite this podcastGreen, D. (Host). (2025, September). Tip-TAP-Toe-ing into playful awe – Georgia Freebody in conversation with Deborah Green [Audio podcast]. JoCAT Podcasts. JoCAT. https://www.jocat-online.org/p-25-freebody-green
Georgia Freebody
Tip-TAP-Toe-ing into playful awe – Georgia Freebody in conversation with Deborah Green
Join Georgia Freebody, author of the article Therapeutic Art Play: Art therapy practices in education to nurture autonomy, creativity, and connection, published in JoCAT in September 2025, and JoCAT co-editor Deborah Green on a meandering journey. Discussing Georgia’s research, they tumble into conversation regarding playfulness and glitter-filled beachballs, being knee-deep in toddlers, animate materials and slipstreaming, nomadic artworking and becoming fugitive, ritual, growing muscular and stretchy to flourish in an ever-changing world. And they marvel at what happens when hooting small people in drumming circles usher in the restorative magic of awe.
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About Georgia Freebody
Georgia is the founder and facilitator of the Therapeutic Art Play (TAP) program, a research-informed initiative situated at the intersection of art therapy, education, and the visual arts. An artist, teacher, art therapist, and researcher, she lectures and workshops visual arts in education at the University of Sydney. Her ongoing art practice is integral to her scholarship, underpinning an arts-informed research praxis that is both relational and interdisciplinary. TAP embodies this praxis, positioning her artworking in educational settings. This artworking cultivates child and material led spaces for connection, becoming, and the development of dispositions supporting learning and well-being.