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Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE)

This week Post-Graduate students Pablo Troccoli, Paula Kramer and Gina Giotaki will be presenting their research as part of C-DaRE's continuing seminar series. The seminar is free to attend and open to all that are interested, but please let us know if you would like to attend by emailing Lily Hayward-Smith. Here is a taster of what they will be sharing with us;

things and thanks: practising gratitude and rest 

The Sense of Self in Somatics: Exploring the Space Between Pedagogy and Psychotherapy

 

Somatic practitioners often talk about the way their practice may contribute to developing a ‘sense of self’ (Hartley 2004 & 2005, Smith 2002).  This presentation will present findings from an ethnographic and practice-based research to date. It will explore some of the meanings the notion of ‘sense of self’ might take in Body-Mind Centering® (BMC™) informed dance practice and pedagogy. By drawing parallels between the way therapy and BMC™ approach human existence and a client, a case will be made for the need of a cross-disciplinary lenses through which to examine the cultivation of a ‘sense of self’.