Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community: Research and Practice that Brings us Home

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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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures Acknowledgements List of contributors Foreword 1 Arriving, becoming and arriving again 2 Check-in, please! Exploring movement check-ins as a tool for embodied psychotherapeutic practice 3 Arts-based research and self-reflexive autobiographical performance 4 Kinaesthetic entanglements and creative immersion in embodied performance 5 The cat, the foal and other meetings that make a difference: Posthuman research that re-animates our responsiveness to knowing and becoming 6 Offerings tells the stories of our lives in movement 7 Lives transformed through dance: The art of dance as a catalyst for personal transformation 8 Breath, belly and back. Dropping into body as ground 9 'Is that yoga or are you just making it up?' 10 Being seen and seeing self: Explorations in the creative process in performance and therapy 11 Finding my way home: An embodied journey to building an inclusive dance community 12 Dancing in the kitchen: Using creativity and embodiment to promote a decolonising approach to psychotherapy 13 Sing your way home: Designing a creative group intervention in the women's prison as a Dance Movement Therapist in Singapore 14 Borderlands: Exploring creativity as a practice of liminality in the arts therapies 15 Indominus Rex; developing mentalisation with offenders through externalisation and creativity in a Dance Movement Psychotherapy group 16 Dancing with Stephen: Reconnecting with the body in a search for closure 17 The matriarch and the mollusc and all things in between 18 Happening upon a cobweb Index