Abstract
In this chapter, the authors describe their experience of training in embodied critical thinking (ECT). Over the course of the programme, they realised that they are concerned with a similar problem: the difficulty of many humans to attend to their lived experience and a related inability to forge meaningful connections to nature (DB's main topic of research) as well as art (KH's main topic of research). Sensing that ECT methods might be useful for tackling these phenomena, they started to meet regularly via Zoom to practise what they had learned. In this chapter, they invite the readers to follow this journey through a combination of diary-like descriptions of their shared time during the ECT summer school, edited transcripts of their consequent Zoom sessions and some more explanatory texts guiding the way. The chapter is designed to give readers a vivid impression of how environmental prompts, attentive listening to and articulation of subjective experience, allow for the documentation as well as the unfolding of felt senses that can open up new realms of thinking and acting. We also reflect on the ways these methods afford and perform a strong ethics of care and cultivate what the authors call "relational imagination.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Practicing Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning |
| Editors | Donata Schoeller, Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, Greg Walkerden |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
| Publication date | 15 Aug 2024 |
| Pages | 84-99 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032498720 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003397939 |
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| Publication status | Published - 15 Aug 2024 |