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 Sensory Creative Inquiry (SCI), 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.
