Practice Research through Creative Bodies

Caroline Frizell, PhD, UKCP, RADMP, Dip. Sup. SAP is a research active, Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. She works as a private practitioner and consultant both indoors and in outdoor environments. Caroline brings principles of eco-feminism to her work as researcher, writer, educator and practitioner.Marina Rova PhD, MA, PGDip, BA Hons, SAP Dip is a Senior Lecturer, PhD supervisor and researcher at Goldsmiths University of London and clinical supervisor in private practice. She continues to explore creative inquiry as practice through collaborative writing and research projects.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of contributorsChapter 1Can we go a bit slower? Ethical meanderings through practice research: creating knowledge through and towards cultures of care.Caroline Frizell and Marina RovaChapter 2The entangled research team: research inquiry through collective and diffractive engagement with data.Caroline Frizell, Juliet Diener, Mark Taylor and Nicola Fay WestonChapter 3Creative Voices Collective: Empowering Communities Through Art and Expression.Esme GreenChapter 4Embodied investigation and performance activism as a catalyst for change.Dagmara BilonChapter 5Dear IZZI , Hi Mum.A soft approach to a movement practice between mother and daughter.Sarah Black-FrizellChapter 6Exploring radical self-care and community empowerment through The Body RoomMarina Rova, Emma Shapiro, Katherine BrownChapter 7Processes Evolving in the Wood Wide Web of Be-coming TreeO.Pen Be (AKA Penelope Best), Orcid, Danièle J Minns and Jatun RisbaChapter 8A journey through personal landscapes: An autoethnographic study of the embodied sense of placeJohanna RönkköChapter 9Dwelling within the body’s forgotten and neglected garden. Have you been on your bench today?Sue CurtisChapter 10aRTSjAM. A therapists’ collective for embodied processing and beingCornelia Bent, Céline Butté, Marina Rova, Geoffery Unkovich and Diana Whelan PorterChapter 11Opening Doors to Peer SupervisionHannah Murdoch and Sue CurtisChapter 12In Search of Existential JoyAllyson VuliChapter 13Pushing beyond limits and realigning togetherLorna HauffChapter 14Weaving the threads of trainer/trainee perspectives on embodied relational research during training; a tapestry of personal and communal transformation.Yeva Feldman and Annie DearnleyChapter 15Connection through separation: negotiating boundaries in dance movement psychotherapy with psychosisKlaudia WittmannChapter 16Living the questionsNicola Fay WestonChapter 17Scratching Beneath the Surface: In Search of BelongingClaire Burrell, Alice Sara and Emma Teixidor-CreightonChapter 18Echoes across the generations; the relationship between mover and witness in audience responses to an autobiographical performanceDitty DokterChapter 19Mapping the lived experience of a cultural nomad through relational stories that moveMarina RovaChapter 20Precarious health: Moving bodies and affirmative ethicsAmanda LightChapter 21Research and lived-experience; multi-directional spillageCaroline FrizellEpilogueCaroline Frizell and Marina RovaIndex