Cultural adaptations of Dance Movement Psychotherapy experiences: from a UK higher education context to working with communities in southern Africa facing water related inequality

Copteros, Athina; Karkou, Vicky; Palmer, Carolyn G

Title: Cultural adaptations of Dance Movement Psychotherapy experiences: from a UK higher education context to working with communities in southern Africa facing water related inequality
Creator: Copteros, Athina
Creator: Karkou, Vicky
Creator: Palmer, Carolyn G
Date Issued: 2017
Date: 2017
Type: text
Type: book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141995
Identifier: vital:38022
Identifier: ISBN 9780199949298
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199949298.001.0001
Description: Water plays a key role in all our lives and in South Africa epitomizes a space in which political inequalities have played themselves out with devastating consequences. The current ecological crisis demands new ways of engaging with ourselves, each other and nature. This research is an initial exploration on the use of a body-based creative movement approach within a transdisciplinary complex social-ecological systems researcher group. The research objective discussed in this chapter is to develop culturally relevant themes from professional Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) training in the UK for application in a South African water resource management context. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to identify culturally relevant themes based on the recorded perceptions of the phenomenon of the training while it was taking place. The themes of: Awareness of Power and Difference; Therapeutic Adaptability; Sharing Leadership and Connecting with the Environment were identified. Artistic Inquiry was used to creatively reflect on the themes and add an embodied response to the discussion. The cultural adaptations of DMP can contribute to a more engaged and non-hierarchical collaboration between practitioners and the people and communities they serve, which would facilitate a therapeutic practice that works with both internal, external (and even transcendental) factors.
Format: pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Relation: Copteros, A., Karkou, V. and Palmer, T., 2017. Cultural adaptations of Dance Movement Psychotherapy experiences: from a UK higher education context to working with communities in southern Africa facing water related inequality. In The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing. Oxford University Press.
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Palmer, Carolyn Gay (Tally) (Prof)

Copteros, Athina (Ms)

RU Department of Psychology

RU Institute for Water Research, including the Unilever Centre for Environmental Water Quality (IWR)

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