Happy New Year 2024
Hello, everyone. I hope you and your family had a good Christmas and restful holidays. I have been slowly coming back to work since the 2nd week of January. I wanted to begin my work with a movement and creative exploration. So today, I dedicated my time to doing a warmup, moving, drawing, and extending this to create a somatic body map of 2024.
Movement Response to 2024
Movement Response is a self-reflective practice through the body and movements and can be practiced by any practitioner of professions. The theoretical underpinnings are Winnicott’s concept of play. Play allows us to enter the unknown and remains between the subjective experience and objectively perceived reality (Winnicott, 1971). Movement Response further takes us to the practice of Jungian’s active imagination and Authentic Movement. The body is invited to remain as an authentic self for expression and explore actively through imagination.
I allowed myself to move freely today after the warmup. I recall my creative query here in the present sentences.
I am on the ground, and suddenly see my left thigh shaking.
I notice my heart beating slightly. I can hear it as I begin to tune my body.
I dance under the spiky tree and sometimes my back feels something prickly.
As I continue to move as the body wants, I suddenly begin to elongate my arm and leg against each other. I then widen my arms to both sides. I continue to extend my arm while starting to feel more grounded in my lower body.
It was a short and sweet exploration. I am always in awe to know the body brings surprises and helps me to clarify what it is that I am experiencing. I then drew images that popped up in me and added words.
Widen
Elongate
Learn and grow
I am scared and excited.
Move and understand
Listen to my body
For the next two years, I will commit to learning and growing; I will take up the training called Somatic Intersubjective Self-Psychology Psychotherapy. I am hungry for knowledge and feel humble to learn from the senior psychotherapists based in Canberra. I would like to strengthen my skills and knowledge in 2024.
Please check the upcoming events and new Group Supervision. In my new group supervision for practitioners, I am hoping to deliver understanding and techniques to use the body and movements to help supervisees and their clients to learn about themselves. One of the techniques I am willing to impart is that a movement response that I describe above.
I hope you all have a moment of moving, creating, or/and looking after yourself in 2024 too.Thank you for reading the newsletter.
References
Frizell, C (2014). Movement Response Lecture Note. Goldsmiths University of London.
Rogers, C (1961). On Becoming a Person. Constable & Co, London.
Winnicott, D. (1971). Playing and Reality. Penguin
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