Main description:

Includes an international and multidisciplinary list of contributors.

Contents:

Table of contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Foreword: Dr Jill Westwood

Chapter 1

Arriving, becoming and arriving again

Caroline Frizell and Marina Rova

Chapter 2

Check- in, please! Exploring movement check-ins as a tool for embodied psychotherapeutic practice

Heidrun Panhofer

Chapter 3

Arts-based research and self-reflexive autobiographical performance

Ditty Dokter

Chapter 4

Kinaesthetic entanglements and creative immersion in embodied performance

Marina Rova

Chapter 5

The cat, the foal and other meetings that make a difference: Posthuman research that re-animates our responsiveness to knowing and becoming

Caroline Frizell

Chapter 6

Offerings tells the stories of our lives in movement

Sarah Black-Frizell and Angela Pierre Louis

Chapter 7

Lives transformed through dance: The art of dance as a catalyst for personal transformation

Ellen Steinmuller

Chapter 8

Breath, belly and back: Dropping into body as ground

Paul Beaumont

Chapter 9

'Is that yoga or are you just making it up?'

Helen Poynor

Chapter 10

Being seen and seeing self: Explorations in the creative process in performance and therapy

Claire Burrell

Chapter 11

Finding my way home: An embodied journey to building an inclusive dance community

Juliet Diener

Chapter 12

Dancing in the kitchen: Using creativity and embodiment to promote a decolonising approach to psychotherapy

Archana Ballal

Chapter 13

Sing your way home: Designing a creative group intervention in the women's prison as a Dance Movement Therapist in Singapore

Agnes Law

Chapter 14

Borderlands: Exploring creativity as a practice of liminality in the arts therapies

Marina Rova and Marrianne Behm

Chapter 15

Indominus Rex; developing mentalisation with offenders through externalisation and creativity in a Dance Movement Psychotherapy Group

Dawn Batcup

Chapter 16

Dancing with Stephen: Reconnecting with the body in a search for closure

Goretti Barjacoba-Souto

Chapter 17

The matriarch and the mollusc and all things in between

Caroline Frizell and Helen Poynor

Chapter 18

Happening upon a cobweb

Caroline Frizell and Marina Rova

Index