| Presentation Proposal - NACADA Annual Conference |
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Code=632
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Conference Year:
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2024
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(LEC)
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Title:
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Moving and Being Moved: Exploring Embodied Empathy in Advisor-Student Relationship-Building |
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Lead Presenter:
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Lindsey Grites Weeks |
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Date:
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December 31, 1969 Time: 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
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Abstract:
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Moving and being moved: Exploring embodied empathy in advisor-student relationship-building
Empathy is commonly understood as a human capacity to put yourself in someone else's position, to participate in their feelings or ideas. "Empathetic listening" is embedded in NACADA's core value of Caring as a component of relationship-building. This presentation explores empathy as an embodied experience, combining sensorimotor/somatic understandings of ourselves with cognitive/affective inferences of another's position. Integrating dance, Laban Movement Analysis, and improvisation, movement activities delve into breath, posture, gesture, shape, effort/force, flow, time, and space. For ease of mobility, all movement activities can be done while seated. By engaging physically and kinesthetically, both individually and in groups, participants illuminate habitual movement patterns and investigate less-familiar movement qualities as potential points of empathetic connection. Through role-playing, participants apply these investigations to hypothetical academic advising scenarios. |
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Handouts
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Note: Handouts (if offered for this session) are accessible via the conference app. |
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