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Grief Moves: An Embodied Artistic Inquiry Into Losing And Finding The Self, Joanna Taubeneck
Grief Moves: An Embodied Artistic Inquiry Into Losing And Finding The Self, Joanna Taubeneck
Creative Arts Therapies Theses
The purpose of this embodied artistic inquiry self-study was to investigate the role and felt-experience of grief during the process of professional identity loss. The use of this particular methodology offered the researcher an opportunity to use movement as the means towards both collecting and analyzing data so that the relationship between grief and identity transition could be sensed physically. Data was collected with a research consultant during six sessions of movement improvisations inspired by each of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ (1969) five stages of grief. The researcher and research consultant met six times as a result of their decision to include …