This article proposes a methodology and theoretical foundation for practice-based transpersonal research in the arts, which involves an immersive engagement with place and matter. This kind of engagement allows the artist-researcher to move beyond their conscious mind, to let work emerge directly from the felt experience of being in an outdoor location and from the interaction of the place’s...
This paper will show the results of a study into the experience of using ritual in contemporary psychotherapy*. Dr. Kress and Kerr have named this experience psycheritual as it is relevant for psychotherapy work and is a form of transition ritual which has transformative properties. Psycheritual can be defined as: an intentional act of communication between the conscious and the unconscious,...