Abstract
In this panel presentation and paper, I draw on personal experience regarding the challenges of facilitating visually-oriented workshops for students and professionals. I critically examine and reflect on my core beliefs and values as a researcher and my roots in dialogic communication theory, and phenomenological approaches to arts therapy.
A general characteristic of using visual methods is that they promote emergence and transformation of meanings. Typically, many associations and metaphors emerge and alter rapidly as people work collaboratively with images and stories in a workshop setting. My experience is that the use of visual and narrative methods is a dance with participants, which I conceptualize as a mutual meaning-making process that emerges in a specific context. In the discussion, I consider how I
try to develop a dialogic dance inspired by a dialogic understanding of empowerment and phenomenological approach to emergence.
A general characteristic of using visual methods is that they promote emergence and transformation of meanings. Typically, many associations and metaphors emerge and alter rapidly as people work collaboratively with images and stories in a workshop setting. My experience is that the use of visual and narrative methods is a dance with participants, which I conceptualize as a mutual meaning-making process that emerges in a specific context. In the discussion, I consider how I
try to develop a dialogic dance inspired by a dialogic understanding of empowerment and phenomenological approach to emergence.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Book of Abstracts for CCCS 2013 Conference “Cultural Memory” |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Place of Publication | Skopje |
| Publisher | Center for Culture and Cultural Studies |
| Publication date | 5 Sept 2013 |
| Pages | 111-112 |
| Publication status | Published - 5 Sept 2013 |
| Event | CCCS Annual Conference 2013 : Cultural Memory - Hotel Continental, Skopje, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Duration: 5 Sept 2013 → 7 Sept 2013 http://www.cultcenter.net/conf2013.php |
Conference
| Conference | CCCS Annual Conference 2013 |
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| Location | Hotel Continental |
| Country/Territory | Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of |
| City | Skopje |
| Period | 05/09/2013 → 07/09/2013 |
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