Exploring Embodied Experience via Videoconferencing: A Method for Body Mapping Online.

ABSTRACT: Faced with a series of COVID-19 related lockdowns in Australia across 2020 and 2021, and anxious about the safety of our research participants, we developed a novel approach to body mapping, an arts-based research method typically undertaken in-person. We produced a facilitated body mapping workshop hosted via an online videoconferencing platform. Workshops brought together 29 participants with disability, mental distress and/or refugee background who used body mapping to represent their embodied experiences of stigma and discrimination. These workshops generated rich data, and participants reported a high level of satisfaction with the process. In this paper we describe our novel approach to body mapping, and share practical tips for others who wish to undertake body mapping remotely. We

SUBMITTER: Vaughan P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9749065 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature