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Embodied Relating and Transformation: Tales from Equine-Facilitated Counseling (Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, 111) by Hillary Sharpe, Tom Strong (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Embodied Relating and Transformation: Tales from Equine-Facilitated Counseling (Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, 111) about?

"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

Who reads Embodied Relating and Transformation: Tales from Equine-Facilitated Counseling (Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, 111)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Hillary Sharpe, Tom Strong (auth.)
Publisher
SensePublishers : Imprint : SensePublishers
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9789463002660
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Education, Medical, School Education & Teaching

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