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

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.