The Diversity in Motion Research Collective.
The Diversity in Motion Research Collective brings a fresh, innovative viewpoint to trauma research that is both qualitative and quantitative. Our approach facilitates mind, body and spirit experiential learning and healing through a diverse cultural lens. Our team fuses principles of psychology, education and dance theory for a well-rounded strength based, trauma informed and person-centered embodied experience.
Doctoral Dissertation.
My doctoral dissertation explores embodied White supremacy, dance/movement therapy, therapeutic relationships, and arts-informed embodied research. Using an arts-informed, embodied, qualitative research design, this study examined how White-identifying dance/movement therapists experience, recognize, and articulate embodied White supremacy within therapeutic relationships.
This research also informs the development of Creative Sensory Inquiry, an emerging framework that uses creative, sensory, movement-based, and reflective practices to explore lived experience, deepen relational awareness, and support accountability, healing, and social change.
