1st Edition
Body Questions in Practice Decision-Making Through Movement and the Arts
Preface
Acknowledgements
How to Use This Book
Activities Index (Movement Breaks)
Part 1: Decision Making Framework
1. Introduction: Decision Making through Movement: Human Development
2. Attention Stage: Environment & Alternatives
3. Intention Stage: Needs & Priorities
4. Action/Non-Action Stage: Timing & [Non] Commitment
5. Flow/Tension Stage: Bodily States
Part 2: Appying Our Body Questions
6. Movement Styles
7. Micro-Processes: Combining the Stages
8. Macro-Processes: Threading Themes Through
9. Book Conclusion
10. Epilogue: The Process behind the Process (with Ross Whyte & Eve Pyra)
Appendices
Index
Biography
Dr Thania Acarón (she/her) PhD, BC-DMT, R-DMP, FHEA is a Puerto Rican lecturer, researcher and dance movement therapist (DMT) based in Wales. She obtained her PhD at the University of Aberdeen on the role of dance/movement in violence prevention and is certified as a DMP in the US and UK. Thania currently works as course leader of the MA in Arts, Health & Wellbeing at the University of South Wales. She directs The Body Hotel CIC, a social enterprise that designs and implements dance/movement-for-wellbeing programmes about burnout prevention, employee wellbeing, menopausal health and decision making for organisations and marginalised communities. Acarón has taught in over 10 DMT training programmes around the world, and codirects Fflamingo CIC, and their flagship project House of Deviant, which advocates for LGBTQ+, disability-led and inclusion focussed performance projects. Readers can keep up with Thania's work on social media @thebodyhotel.
