Embodied Relating and Transformation: Tales from Equine-Facilitated Counseling
1 January 2015, Pages 1-136
Abstract
"What kinds of
embodied and relational learning can come from developing a responsive
relationship with a horse? What insights might such ways of learning
offer counselors and educators? In this book, the authors explore how
women challenged by disordered eating develop transformative relational
and embodied experiences through Equine-Facilitated Counseling (EFC).
Embodiment refers to how we engage with others and the world in often
habitual and taken for granted ways that shape who we are and the
relationships we have. These habitual ways of being provide us with a
sense of stability, but they can sometimes become constraining and
problematic (as in the case of eating disorders). Our corporeal
engagement with the world structures such habits, but it can also afford
us opportunities to experiment, modify, and challenge problematic
patterns, and in some instances, create new and preferred ones. The
horses that participate in EFC present a vastly different sort of other
who can help clients interrupt their sedimented ways of being and foster
moments of responsivity that hold the power to become transformative.
This theoretical context presents a different way of thinking about and
practicing counseling - one that adds to a growing language of
embodiment across a variety of disciplines. Chapters set forth a
theoretical context for understanding the following: relationally
embodied processes of stability and change, EFC, client stories from our
research associated with riding horses in EFC, and implications we see
for practice across different healing and learning contexts." © 2015
Sense Publishers. All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-946300268-4;978-946300267-7
Original language: English
DOI: 10.5822/978-94-6300-268-4Document Type: Book
Publisher: Sense Publishers
© Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
