Creative Bodies in Therapy Performance and Community

<p><em>Creative Bodies in Therapy Performance and Community</em> 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. </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>