Embodying Health Symposium
UCLAN on the 19th and 20th of July
This 2-day Symposium will present ways in which somatic movement practices and improvisation are applied when working with individual patients and groups in hospitals, hospices and other health care environments.
Workshop events will be run by members of the Knowing Body Network, Lucinda Jarrett, Jasmine Pasch, Filipa Pereira-Stubbs; Miranda Tufnell, and Penny Collinson. A somatic approach holds our human nature or human-ness as central in relationship.
Practitioners bring to their work a sense of connection and bodily support as resources to all we encounter in life. Dancers approach working with people in healthcare environments through a holistic view aiming to meet the whole person and offer person-centred creative practice.
It is a valuable role which can complement and support medical interventions and contribute to the patient’s wellbeing and experience of living with illness. Dancers use the tools they have honed – sensory perception, movement, touch, spontaneity – above all listening to what is moving in themselves and another. The ‘conversations’ are often non-verbal exchanges where dancer and patient meet in movement, feeling and imagination.
During the symposium practitioners will share ways that they attend to building relationships when working with others.
Through workshops, films, presentations and discussions, the Embodying Health Symposium will:
• present ways in which dancers work alongside medical staff and complement the patient process in hospital
• share the ‘tools’ which dancers use when working with patients and with healthcare practitioners
• invite questions, feedback and responses from those healthcare professionals attending, regarding the ways in which they perceive dancers and somatic practitioners can support the health of patients in their settings.
Lunch will be available on both days with refreshments twice a day.
Further details are available from Penny Collinson on pscollinson@uclan.ac.uk 01772 895349.
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