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Rehabilitation and recovery
Published in Alex Jelly, Adel Helmy, Barbara A. Wilson, Life After a Rare Brain Tumour and Supplementary Motor Area Syndrome, 2019
The highlight of my week on the Lewin Unit was the Friday movement session held by a dance/movement specialist, Felipa Pereira-Stubbs. Felipa had studied in the US as part of a month-long scholarship to see how they implemented dance practice in US hospitals, and to visit dance practitioners who worked with older populations. She was perfect for me as I’d already had experience of what’s known as “authentic movement”, in other words, letting your body move as it feels like doing, intuitively. I’d done a course in it – twice – at Schumacher College, but outside of the Master’s: once in the summer before I signed up for my MSc, to try to get to know Schumacher, and again for my dissertation on “How we know the world through our bodies”. And she (Felipa) was lovely.
Expressive Art Therapy
Published in Diane Gibson, Group Protocols: A Psychosocial Compendium, 2014
The structure of dance/movement therapy groups is built on themes and content that come from group members themselves. There are several levels of movement work. The basic and most structured level Involves awareness of body states, feelings, and their interconnections; work on body boundaries, sensory and perceptual-motor deficits, and the rudiments of self-expression and sharing, verbally and nonverbally, of body and feeling states. The next level builds on the first level principally into the areas of interpersonal awareness and sharing on a movement level and involves exploration of such areas as intimacy, defenses, acceptance, reaching out, and the creation of spontaneous group dances. The third level extends the earlier work into areas of authentic movement expression and response, individual and group improvisation. This level of movement work can also involve in-depth individual expression of fantasies, dreams, action, or situational imagery.
Parental Experiences of Coming Out: From “Un-doing Family Bonds” to “Family Generativity”
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2023
Agostino Carbone, Jessica Pistella, Alessandro Gennaro, Chiara Petrocchi, Roberto Baiocco
The second cluster, referring to “perceived gender typicality in childhood,” concerned the (naive) theory through which parents explained their child’s non-heterosexual orientation, referring to their child’s behaviors and interests at a young age, in terms of gender norm typicality. Parents reported memories of their child’s preferred toys and games, which were often more “typical” of the opposite gender; however, they considered play authentic movement, whereby the true self emerges. In addition, parents looked for “evidence” of their child’s sexual orientation during childhood, in terms of their child’s external appearance and feminine or masculine play and interests. In doing so, the parents overlapped gender typicality and sexual orientation and expressed regret that they had not been able to read the “clues” relating to their child’s non-heterosexual orientation at an early age, and thereby support their child’s well-being and identity development prior to the CO event (Baiocco et al., 2021).
From Compassion Fatigue to Vitality: Memoir With Art Response for Self-Care
Published in Art Therapy, 2020
While exploring this insight through authentic movement, I had a vivid kinesthetic sensation and visual image of severed, tamped-down golden energy threads pulled close to my body. In this movement meditation, I explored opening and reaching out with those threads. In the weeks that followed, my memoir writing revealed how thwarted efforts at attachment and living in this overly independent, false aloneness had made me susceptible to further adult-life attachment injuries and compassion fatigue. To encourage my willingness to seek new connection, I began making a sculptural vessel expressing the unfurling of that attachment-seeking, golden life energy.