´EMBODIED REFLECTION´ – A PHASE OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL HEURISTIC RESEARCH A process-oriented study to introduce a method of reflection centered in the body
Roberta Legros Štěpánková, Ivo Čermák
Abstract: This article aims to shed some light on the importance of embodiment and an embodied attitude towards data analysis, within the framework of a heuristic phenomenological inquiry. It is a process-oriented study, by which the authors want to point out that it is a partial/temporal interception of a larger body of research. It presents embodied reflection (ER), through the original concepts it stems from – embodiment and reflective practices, as a step/phase in the phenomenological analysis of experience. Thus it is proposed to the reader as a systematically described, newly designed tool, which can serve psychologists and psychotherapists in practice, qualitative researchers, or social workers in research and practice, to reach a fuller understanding of the researched/experienced phenomenon. ER is also presented as part of the data analysis procedure in a concrete research inquiry centered in the essence of improvisation in dance and body-oriented psychotherapy contexts. An added value of this tool and/or a contribution to any kind of phenomenological or psychotherapeutic qualitative study is discussed in relation to the existing literature. Some further possible ways of employing this method are proposed.
Keywords: embodied reflection, embodiment, improvisation, heuristic phenomenology
Pages: 40-57
Doi: 10.17846/PP.2024.7.1.40-57
Source: Pomáhajúce profesie, 2024, vol. 7, issue 1, pp. 40-57 (PDF)
Language: English
