Dawson, L.;
Hay, J.;
Rosling, N.;
(2021)
Therapeutic creativity and the lived experience of grief in the collaborative fiction film Lost Property.
Research for All
, 5
(2)
pp. 227-245.
10.14324/RFA.05.2.04.
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Abstract
This collaborative project aimed to represent the embodied experience of grief in a fiction film by drawing on research, and on the personal and professional experience of all involved: academics; an artist; bereavement therapists and counsellors; and professional actors, cinematographers, sound engineers and other film crew. By representing grief in a more phenomenologically minded manner, the project sought to capture the lived experience of loss on screen while contributing meaningfully to the discourse on practice-as-research. Hay, Dawson and Rosling used a collaborative fiction film and participatory action research to investigate whether storying loss, and representing it through narrative, images and embodied movement, is therapeutic. Participatory action research was beneficial in facilitating changes in the co-researchers’ thinking, feeling and practice, and in enabling participants to inhabit multiple roles in a manner that expanded their disciplinary boundaries. However, while the project’s effect on some of the participants demonstrated the ways that creativity and meaning making can support adaptive grieving, it also revealed the risks of using participatory action research and fiction film to investigate highly emotive topics such as grief.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Therapeutic creativity and the lived experience of grief in the collaborative fiction film Lost Property |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/RFA.05.2.04 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.05.2.04 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 Dawson, Hay and Rosling. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | grief, creativity, meaning making, practice-as-research, participatory action research (PAR) |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10136993 |
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