Cultural adaptations of Dance Movement Psychotherapy experiences: from a UK higher education context to working with communities in southern Africa facing water related inequality
- Copteros, Athina, Karkou, Vicky, Palmer, Carolyn G
- Authors: Copteros, Athina , Karkou, Vicky , Palmer, Carolyn G
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141995 , vital:38022 , ISBN 9780199949298 , https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199949298.001.0001
- Description: Water plays a key role in all our lives and in South Africa epitomizes a space in which political inequalities have played themselves out with devastating consequences. The current ecological crisis demands new ways of engaging with ourselves, each other and nature. This research is an initial exploration on the use of a body-based creative movement approach within a transdisciplinary complex social-ecological systems researcher group. The research objective discussed in this chapter is to develop culturally relevant themes from professional Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) training in the UK for application in a South African water resource management context. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to identify culturally relevant themes based on the recorded perceptions of the phenomenon of the training while it was taking place. The themes of: Awareness of Power and Difference; Therapeutic Adaptability; Sharing Leadership and Connecting with the Environment were identified. Artistic Inquiry was used to creatively reflect on the themes and add an embodied response to the discussion. The cultural adaptations of DMP can contribute to a more engaged and non-hierarchical collaboration between practitioners and the people and communities they serve, which would facilitate a therapeutic practice that works with both internal, external (and even transcendental) factors.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Copteros, Athina , Karkou, Vicky , Palmer, Carolyn G
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141995 , vital:38022 , ISBN 9780199949298 , https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199949298.001.0001
- Description: Water plays a key role in all our lives and in South Africa epitomizes a space in which political inequalities have played themselves out with devastating consequences. The current ecological crisis demands new ways of engaging with ourselves, each other and nature. This research is an initial exploration on the use of a body-based creative movement approach within a transdisciplinary complex social-ecological systems researcher group. The research objective discussed in this chapter is to develop culturally relevant themes from professional Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) training in the UK for application in a South African water resource management context. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to identify culturally relevant themes based on the recorded perceptions of the phenomenon of the training while it was taking place. The themes of: Awareness of Power and Difference; Therapeutic Adaptability; Sharing Leadership and Connecting with the Environment were identified. Artistic Inquiry was used to creatively reflect on the themes and add an embodied response to the discussion. The cultural adaptations of DMP can contribute to a more engaged and non-hierarchical collaboration between practitioners and the people and communities they serve, which would facilitate a therapeutic practice that works with both internal, external (and even transcendental) factors.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Report containing learning, reflection and evaluation based on social learning:
- Burt, Jane C, Wilson, Jessica, Copteros, Athina, Lotz-Sisitka, Heila, Pereira, Taryn, Mokoena, Samson, Munnik, Victor, Ngcozela, Thabang, Lusithi, Thabo
- Authors: Burt, Jane C , Wilson, Jessica , Copteros, Athina , Lotz-Sisitka, Heila , Pereira, Taryn , Mokoena, Samson , Munnik, Victor , Ngcozela, Thabang , Lusithi, Thabo
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142005 , vital:38023 , ISBN WRC Report no K5/2313 Deliverable 7
- Description: This report forms the seventh deliverable in the NWRS2 citizen monitoring project and builds on the previous 6 deliverables, which include methodology for the project (Del 1), an assessment of civil society involvement in water policy (Del 2), an overview of the social learning approach and introduction to the case studies (Del 3), draft citizen monitoring guidelines (Del 4), an update on social learning to-date, including action plans (Del 5) and a report on a description and assessment of the case studies (Del 6). This report describes the last social learning module of the ‘Changing Practice’ course and highlights preliminary reflections on the learning that has taken place during this course. The report also describes the plans that were taken at the follow up research meeting. Finally we present the approach towards evaluating the role of social learning in the project as a whole.
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- Date Issued: 2016
- Authors: Burt, Jane C , Wilson, Jessica , Copteros, Athina , Lotz-Sisitka, Heila , Pereira, Taryn , Mokoena, Samson , Munnik, Victor , Ngcozela, Thabang , Lusithi, Thabo
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142005 , vital:38023 , ISBN WRC Report no K5/2313 Deliverable 7
- Description: This report forms the seventh deliverable in the NWRS2 citizen monitoring project and builds on the previous 6 deliverables, which include methodology for the project (Del 1), an assessment of civil society involvement in water policy (Del 2), an overview of the social learning approach and introduction to the case studies (Del 3), draft citizen monitoring guidelines (Del 4), an update on social learning to-date, including action plans (Del 5) and a report on a description and assessment of the case studies (Del 6). This report describes the last social learning module of the ‘Changing Practice’ course and highlights preliminary reflections on the learning that has taken place during this course. The report also describes the plans that were taken at the follow up research meeting. Finally we present the approach towards evaluating the role of social learning in the project as a whole.
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- Date Issued: 2016
Visit the exotic birthplaces of transdisciplinarity
- Burt, Jane C, Cockburn, Jessica J, Fox, Helen E, Copteros, Athina
- Authors: Burt, Jane C , Cockburn, Jessica J , Fox, Helen E , Copteros, Athina
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68442 , vital:29256 , https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.1511.7048
- Description: Publisher version , Preface: Why a new approach to science? The world we live in is very different to the world of one hundred years ago. The world has never been so populated by humans and never before have the spe-cies ‘human’ influenced and manipulated the natural world in the way in which we do now. Academics are calling it the age of the Anthropocene. In the age of the Anthropocene we face different challenges to what hu- mans faced centuries ago. As we find ourselves in this new age we have had to not only question ‘what we know’ but also ‘how we know’ and whether the ‘how we know’ is the right kind of ‘how’ for the problems that we face today. This has led to a questioning of the way in which we generate knowledge and the way in which this knowledge is used. This critique is not aimed at all knowledge generation it is mostly a frustration that has arisen out of the physical and biological sciences with the realisation that doing good science is just not enough to bring about meaningful change in the world. Trans-disciplinary scientists and practitioners have begun this journey in search of a new kind of science - A science in service of society! This tourist trip will re- trace the few first steps of these emerging ideas so that we can understand where these new ideas have come from and how they may influence our own research. , This document was developed for a postgraduate course on Transdisciplinary research held at Rhodes University. It explores three key theoretical approaches to transdisciplinarity in relation to the question 'Why TD?'.
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- Date Issued: 2016
- Authors: Burt, Jane C , Cockburn, Jessica J , Fox, Helen E , Copteros, Athina
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68442 , vital:29256 , https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.1511.7048
- Description: Publisher version , Preface: Why a new approach to science? The world we live in is very different to the world of one hundred years ago. The world has never been so populated by humans and never before have the spe-cies ‘human’ influenced and manipulated the natural world in the way in which we do now. Academics are calling it the age of the Anthropocene. In the age of the Anthropocene we face different challenges to what hu- mans faced centuries ago. As we find ourselves in this new age we have had to not only question ‘what we know’ but also ‘how we know’ and whether the ‘how we know’ is the right kind of ‘how’ for the problems that we face today. This has led to a questioning of the way in which we generate knowledge and the way in which this knowledge is used. This critique is not aimed at all knowledge generation it is mostly a frustration that has arisen out of the physical and biological sciences with the realisation that doing good science is just not enough to bring about meaningful change in the world. Trans-disciplinary scientists and practitioners have begun this journey in search of a new kind of science - A science in service of society! This tourist trip will re- trace the few first steps of these emerging ideas so that we can understand where these new ideas have come from and how they may influence our own research. , This document was developed for a postgraduate course on Transdisciplinary research held at Rhodes University. It explores three key theoretical approaches to transdisciplinarity in relation to the question 'Why TD?'.
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- Date Issued: 2016
An exploration of the principle of Dance Movement Therapy in water resource management research practice:
- Authors: Copteros, Athina
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142016 , vital:38024 , ISBN PECS Conference: Social-ecological dynamics in the Anthropocene, Spier Estate, Cape Town, 2-5 November , http://www.pecs-science.org/research/news/news/2015pecsconferencesocialecologicaldynamicsintheanthropocene.5.40768cbb14b32a0480b694.html
- Description: An exploration of the principle of Dance Movement Therapy in water resource management research practice
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- Date Issued: 2015
- Authors: Copteros, Athina
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142016 , vital:38024 , ISBN PECS Conference: Social-ecological dynamics in the Anthropocene, Spier Estate, Cape Town, 2-5 November , http://www.pecs-science.org/research/news/news/2015pecsconferencesocialecologicaldynamicsintheanthropocene.5.40768cbb14b32a0480b694.html
- Description: An exploration of the principle of Dance Movement Therapy in water resource management research practice
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- Date Issued: 2015
Participatory Action Research into ways in which Dance Movement Psychotherapy can promote personal and social change in a South African:
- Authors: Copteros, Athina
- Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142027 , vital:38025 , ISBN Healing and Social Transformation in Mental Healthcare in South Africa Conference, University of Cape Town, 14-15 July
- Description: Participatory Action Research into ways in which Dance Movement Psychotherapy can promote personal and social change in a South African.
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- Date Issued: 2014
- Authors: Copteros, Athina
- Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142027 , vital:38025 , ISBN Healing and Social Transformation in Mental Healthcare in South Africa Conference, University of Cape Town, 14-15 July
- Description: Participatory Action Research into ways in which Dance Movement Psychotherapy can promote personal and social change in a South African.
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- Date Issued: 2014
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