Creative & Arts-based Inquiry
Lyric essays, poetic representation, writing as inquiry and arts-based research. 11 records.
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Creative engagement with the voices of person-centred therapists: Using poetic illuminations to overcome data fragmentation and to highlight the nuances of lived experience
Increasingly, creative forms of data representation are being utilised within qualitative research as a way of gaining deep, varied and nuanced knowledge of a phenomenon.
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Falling into Glăveanu’s Gap: A lyric essay searching for resilience through creativity
This paper is in two parts comprising a literature review and a creative, non-fiction, lyric essay format to explore interplay between ambivalent emotions, creativity, and resilience.
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How storytelling impacts students in their psychotherapy training
The use and impact of storytelling in counselling and psychotherapy training was explored using a mixed-methods approach. An online survey completed by 30 therapists and 12 counselling tutors produced both quantitative and qualitative data.
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A story of psychotherapy
A story of psychotherapy.
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Reflexivity and an Arts-based Inquiry during Covid-19 times
This paper examines the role of reflexivity and arts-based activities as a medium for reflexivity during Covid-19 times.
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Stepping into the clearing: A researcher’s challenge to make sense of phenomenological philosophy
Philosophical texts have much to offer the phenomenological researcher, but can appear remote to novice researchers who are not versed in philosophy.
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Art-based activities and adverse events: An autobiographical inquiry
This critical arts-based, autobiographical inquiry shares how participation in art therapy contributed to the author’s health and wellness.
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RE-writing the Pain: A Lyric Essay
The creative, non-fiction approach of ‘lyric essay’ is used to flesh out my heuristic experience, building on earlier heuristic research about my experience of musculoskeletal pain.
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Two-eyed seeing, arts-based reflection and collaboration: Reflexivity tools for nursing practitioners working across cultures
This paper explores how the use of reflexivity provided a structural framework for a doctoral student as she conducted a literature review and worked across cultures.
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The case of the disappearing twin: How writing brought me closer to my self
Using writing as a means of inquiry, I aim to analyse a change over time in my creative writing and consider what this change tells me about myself.
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Epiphany Storytelling as a Means of Reinforcing and Embedding Transformational Therapeutic Change
The mental health field has seen a groundswell of interest in user perspectives as a crucial element of research, training and service enhancement.