Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community

Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community champions several diverse and innovative approaches in the professional engagement with the creative body as a catalyst for change in therapy, education, somatics, and performance.

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Caroline Frizell, PhD, is senior lecturer and researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as therapist and supervisor working indoors and out. She is committed to posthuman, eco-feminist perspectives, working at the intersections of dance movement psychotherapy, ecopsychotherapy and critical disability studies.

Marina Rova, PhD, is programme convenor, lecturer and researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London and co-founder of Arts Minded CIC. Her work is nourished by embodied and relational approaches to knowing and being-in-the-world and led by a curiosity about the developmental, existential and socio-political contexts that shape our narratives.

Klappentext

Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community champions several diverse and innovative approaches in the professional engagement with the creative body as a catalyst for change in therapy, education, somatics and performance. With contributors from the wide-ranging fields of performance and visual arts, psychotherapy, dance and somatics, this book articulates practice-based experiences in a creative language. The readers are invited to move from the process of reading, into the experience of being in and making sense of the world through a moving body. The book meanders purposefully through practice-led embodied approaches in research that generate new knowledge, methodological frameworks that have emerged in response to the needs of different contexts, as well as offerring a window on first-hand experience as practice. The book will appeal to a wide range of practitioners and trainees in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, arts therapies, counselling and psychotherapy, somatics, community practice and performance.

Inhalt

Table of contents

• List of Figures

• Acknowledgements

• List of contributors

• Foreword: Dr Jill Westwood Chapter 1

Arriving, becoming and arriving again

Caroline Frizell and Marina Rova

Chapter 2

Check- in, please! Exploring movement check-ins as a tool for embodied psychotherapeutic practice

Heidrun Panhofer

Chapter 3

Arts-based research and self-reflexive autobiographical performance

Ditty Dokter

Chapter 4

Kinaesthetic entanglements and creative immersion in embodied performance

Marina Rova

Chapter 5

The cat, the foal and other meetings that make a difference: Posthuman research that re-animates our responsiveness to knowing and becoming

Caroline Frizell

Chapter 6

Offerings tells the stories of our lives in movement

Sarah Black-Frizell and Angela Pierre Louis

Chapter 7

Lives transformed through dance: The art of dance as a catalyst for personal transformation

Ellen Steinmüller

Chapter 8

Breath, belly and back: Dropping into body as ground

Paul Beaumont

Chapter 9

'Is that yoga or are you just making it up?'

Helen Poynor

Chapter 10

Being seen and seeing self: Explorations in the creative process in performance and therapy

Claire Burrell

Chapter 11

Finding my way home: An embodied journey to building an inclusive dance community

Juliet Diener

Chapter 12

Dancing in the kitchen: Using creativity and embodiment to promote a decolonising approach to psychotherapy

Archana Ballal

Chapter 13

Sing your way home: Designing a creative group intervention in the women's prison as a Dance Movement Therapist in Singapore

Agnes Law

Chapter 14

Borderlands: Exploring creativity as a practice of liminality in the arts therapies

Marina Rova and Marrianne Behm

Chapter 15

Indominus Rex; developing mentalisation with offenders through externalisation and creativity in a Dance Movement Psychotherapy Group

Dawn Batcup

Chapter 16

Dancing with Stephen: Reconnecting with the body in a search for closure

Goretti Barjacoba-Souto

Chapter 17

The matriarch and the mollusc and all things in between

Caroline Frizell and Helen Poynor

Chapter 18

Happening upon a cobweb

Caroline Frizell and Marina Rova

Index