My SiP examines how grounding and awareness of the physical presence through various therapeutic approaches, can help to feel present, authentic and connected in a virtual teaching and learning environment. Therefore I was quite excited when I came across Merleau-Ponty’s book “Phenomenology of Perception”. In it, he states: “The body is our general medium for …
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Vital to my research topic is the link between the physical, the mental and the emotional; the link between physical sensations, feelings and emotions. Hearing Timothy Morton talking about the importance of feelings and the need to be guided by them, was therefore valid and interesting to me. Around 14 mins in, he even took …
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I am catching up with putting my hand-written notes on my blog, on the reading I have done so far. Prior to our first SiP Workshop I read Jean McNiff’s “What is Action Research”. This was interesting. I am working on the MA Applied Imagination in the Creative Industries, and the research methodology of this …
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I had my first SiP tutorial today, with John O’Reilly and another participant, Richard Parry. It was a very fruitful session and I am left with a lot to think about. The lively discussions gave me plenty of ideas, and themes came up that I want to consider more: e.g. the concept of ‘rewilding’ – …
On 13th January 2021 we had our first SiP Workshop with Catherine Smith and John O’Reilly. During the day we worked through various tasks and touched on a variety of topics. Two of these I will certainly cover in further blog posts and will research more: research methods and ethical considerations. We also created a …
I have currently two roles, two professions. One is being an Associate Lecturer at CSM, the other being a cognitive behavioural hypnotherapist. In both roles I had to shift my work online since April 2020. When thinking about an idea for the SiP I reflected on what has happened recently in both my professional roles, …