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This chapter is about creativity as deeply connected to what it means to be a fully embodied human. Creativity is necessary for all of living, including researching, writing, teaching, artmaking, and mentoring. The author brings her background as an arts-based researcher, dancer, poet, and curriculum theorist to articulate ways the body can be central to inspiring creativity. Explored are ways for the reader to reflect on connections between inhabiting the body more fully as a guiding principle and releasing the creative in multiple forms and pathways. In poetic and visceral language, being emphasized is the importance of an embodied awareness and provides pragmatic guidelines for opening up to the reservoir of creativity within. Practices of physicality as walking and connecting to the natural world are presented as a visceral creativity. The body as a threshold is considered as a way to listen to the body’s wisdom and loosen the muscles of making and creating. Specific concepts described are ways to develop a more hospitable and imaginative relationship to one’s own body, and literally walk, exploring the body as a place of generativity for creativity in dangerous times. A goal is to inspire readers to listen to their bodies and inhabit a more embodied creativity to inform their research, teaching, and living.
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Snowber, C. (2019). Embodied Perspectives on Creativity, Inquiry, and Research. In: Mullen, C.A. (eds) Creativity Under Duress in Education?. Creativity Theory and Action in Education, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90272-2_11
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