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Introduction Introduction
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Context and Background on Moving Pieces Context and Background on Moving Pieces
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Core Components of the Moving Pieces Approach Core Components of the Moving Pieces Approach
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Creating a ‘Poetic Space’ Creating a ‘Poetic Space’
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Building a Poetic Space Online Building a Poetic Space Online
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The Body as a Safe Container: Rebalancing, Mutual Regulation, and Embodied Empathy The Body as a Safe Container: Rebalancing, Mutual Regulation, and Embodied Empathy
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Ventral Vagal Activation Ventral Vagal Activation
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Rebalancing Rebalancing
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Psychomotor Function Psychomotor Function
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The Feldenkrais Method The Feldenkrais Method
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Mutual Regulation and Embodied Empathy Mutual Regulation and Embodied Empathy
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Sensations to Image Making as an Implicit Basis for Self-Knowledge Sensations to Image Making as an Implicit Basis for Self-Knowledge
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Attention to Polarities as they Emerge through the Body, Movement, and Imagination Attention to Polarities as they Emerge through the Body, Movement, and Imagination
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Case Study Illustration 1 Case Study Illustration 1
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Performative Sharing: Audience as Witness and Collaborator Performative Sharing: Audience as Witness and Collaborator
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Case Study Illustration 2 Case Study Illustration 2
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Bridging Implicit to Explicit Experience, Assimilation, and Ending Bridging Implicit to Explicit Experience, Assimilation, and Ending
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Evaluation and Application: A Feminist Interdisciplinary Investigation into the Efficacy of the Moving Pieces Approach to Managing Medically Unexplained Symptoms Evaluation and Application: A Feminist Interdisciplinary Investigation into the Efficacy of the Moving Pieces Approach to Managing Medically Unexplained Symptoms
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Conclusion Conclusion
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46 The Moving Pieces Approach: Poetic Space, Embodied Creativity, Polarity, and Performance as Aspects of Aesthetic Experience
Get accessCharlie Blowers, Founder and Artistic Director of Moving Pieces Collective; Arts and Body-Oriented Psychotherapist; Practice-based Researcher in Collaboration with the Department of Dance and Psychology, Roehampton University, London, UK
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Published:20 November 2023
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Abstract
There is a growing focus on the impact of stress and trauma on the body, particularly the autonomic nervous system, and concomitant disruption to both physical and mental health. The Moving Pieces Approach (MPA) is an innovative group-based approach to support mental health and manage persistent medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). This is facilitated through sensorimotor integration, combining the performing arts, psychotherapy, and somatic movement education, particularly the Feldenkrais Method. MPA offers an opportunity to integrate more tacit knowledge at the edges of awareness, accessed through rebalancing the nervous system, sensing into the body, improvisational movement, image making, storytelling, and group connection. Fundamental to this approach is establishing a safe and textured container, a shared ‘poetic space’ where unconscious embodied experience can safely emerge, be expressed through different art forms, and shared performatively. Polarities often emerge as part of the process, manifesting as conflicting impulses in the body, movement, opposing qualities in image making, and interpersonal conflict within the group. This chapter considers the main phases of MPA with a focus on polarities as a vehicle to access sequestered experience, discover new insights, and a revised personal narrative. It includes two case studies, one highlighting the dynamic of working with polarity and a second illustrating the potential benefits of performative sharing. Aesthetic experience is revealed as integral to MPA, influencing each phase of the process. Finally, there is reference to current research into MPA, combining artistic and scientific inquiries to investigate the potential benefit of this approach to people experiencing MUS.
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