Sarah Lawrence College
Not a member yet
1285 research outputs found
Sort by
The Hero\u27s Journey in Dance/Movement Therapy: Answering the Call by Entering Experiences Through the Doorway of Awe
Get PDFThe hero’s journey tells the story of an ordinary person leaving their known life, setting out on an adventure into the unknown to fulfill a quest, and returning to their known world with some form of gift for their society. This storyline can be traced throughout myths and legends across time and cultures and is still used in current books and films to this day. The hero’s journey can also be traced throughout the course of an average person’s life and can be entered into at any time as the person encounters and overcomes trials to develop self-trust and resiliency in their life. Dance/movement therapy, which is a guided process of tuning into one’s bodily experience, intuitively moving with images, sensations, and associations as they arise, increasing awareness of oneself and others, and working towards greater integration of the many dimensions of one’s life experience follows a similar cyclical process as the hero’s journey. Dance/movement therapy utilizes the expressive and symbolic qualities of movement to help participants enter, explore, and engage with their own story in a new way. This thesis explores the parallels between the hero’s journey and the process of dance/movement therapy and how these processes can lead people into experiences of awe to promote self-exploration, greater capacity for connection with others, the ability to feel all of life’s experiences more deeply, and to foster resilience and lasting transformation
Aging and Dance: Insights, Imagination, and Potential
Get PDFAging is universal. It is the passage of time. It is the formation of one’s ontologies, epistemologies, maturity, wrinkles, wisdom, memory, and more. Aging is universal for all people. However, much like social categorizations –including gender, race, class, religion, and nationality– age adds a layer of difference, another intersection of identity, and thus another hierarchy of dominance. Much like aging, all people dance; we move and groove across time and space. As we dance and as we age, our social standing and understanding change. Within the United States, the cultural (mis)understandings and systems around aging impact and shape the ideals and expectations of aging within the dance discipline, industry, and community. As with all art forms, dance performance holds opportunities for socio-political change and resistance; it is a site to challenge socio-cultural structures and create new understandings and methods for action. In conducting this research, I interviewed two renowned artists: Eiko Otake and Ishmael Houston-Jones. These artists shared their experience of teaching, making, and performing in New York City (and internationally) for over 40 years. This thesis is a phenomenological telling and analysis of these artists’ experiences of aging in the 21st-century dance-art discourse. Simultaneously, this is a phantasmographical reflection and analysis of my imagination and biases of aging as an emerging dance artist and scholar. Insights from these artists inspire my efforts to articulate the immense potential in dance and performance. My research converges with the broader effort to dismantle oppressive mechanisms in our culturally-conditioned knowledge, understanding, and imagination of aging and dance
Emotion Regulation: Preschool Children During Outdoor Play
Get PDFThe purpose of this thesis is to help understand preschool children’s ability to regulate their emotions through outdoor play. There has been extensive research indicating the positive effects of play on a child’s ability to regulate their emotions. Keeping this in mind, the thesis explores preschool children’s outdoor play and emotion regulation. The findings suggest that preschool children are able to regulate their emotions through social interaction/play. The observations also help understand the different ways in which children interact with each other when a child expresses negative or positive emotions. The thesis further highlights the importance of play in relation to their understanding of various topics that can often be distressing and the ways in which they navigate their emotions around these topics. Two main themes include the use of risky play to regulate emotions and the expression of emotions regarding the topic of death through play
Evaluation of Targeted On-Demand Genetic Counseling Model for Familial Variant Cascade Testing
No full textCascade testing is the process by which family members of an individual with a familial pathogenic variant are sequentially offered genetic counseling and testing. This process is important for tailoring preventative services and improving health outcomes. Despite these benefits, there has been historically low uptake of genetic counseling and testing by at-risk relatives. We sought to determine whether offering a targeted on-demand genetic counseling service could reduce barriers and improve experience for patients, potentially leading to improved uptake of cascade testing. The on-demand model offers same-day call-back and targeted session by a genetic counselor after patients contact the clinic. We offered this model as an option for one month through Geisinger’s MyCode® Genomic Screening and Counseling Program. The clinic was contacted by 16 at-risk relatives during this time, 12 of whom were eligible for the study. Of those eligible, six (50%) elected to have on-demand genetic counseling; two patients returned surveys and indicated a positive response to the model. There were insufficient enrollees and responses for statistical analysis. Participating genetic counselors also indicated an overall positive view of the model. These are promising results that could be further explored in future research to determine efficacy of the model.
Cascade testing is the process by which family members cascade of having of an individual with a familial pathogenic variant are sequentially offered genetic counseling and testing. This process is important for offeringtailoring preventative services and improving health outcomes. Despite these benefits, there has been historically low uptake of genetic counseling and testing by at-risk relatives. We sought to determine whether offering a targeted on-demand genetic counseling model servicecould help reduce barriers and improve experience for cascade patients, potentially leading to improved uptake of cascade testing. The on-demand model offers same-day call-back and targeted session by a genetic counselor after patients contact the clinic. , and brief targeted genetic counseling session. We offered this model as an option for one1 month through Geisinger’s MyCode® Genomic Screening and Counseling Program. The clinic was contacted by 16 at-risk relatives during this time, 12 of whom were eligible for the study. Of those eligible, six (50%) elected to have on-demand genetic counseling; . two patients returned surveys and indicated a positive response to the model. There were insufficient enrollees and responses for statistical analysis. Participating genetic counselors also indicated an overall positive view of the model. These are promising results that could be further explored built upon in future research to determine efficacy of the model
