Our stories heal -- mind, body and soul : pivoting to a healing-centered engagement in an applied theatre residency

Professor, author, and youth development activist Shawn Ginwright proposes the importance of healing-centered engagement (HCE) for youth in urban communities and their facilitators. His scholarship invites readers to gain a unique perspective on how as youth development professionals engage and interact with young people to bring justice and support interactions that might be healing and restorative. Ginwright’s 2022 Book Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves argues how facilitators in social justice work with youth might move toward (HCE) from four pivots: awareness, connection, vision, and presence. This MFA thesis is a qualitative case study of a teaching artist facilitation experience during aa 9-week applied theatre residency at a group home facility in central, Texas. The researcher uses reflective practitioner and autoethnographic analysis to examine coded data representing how she pivoted (in relation to all four pivots) as a facilitator throughout the entire project, Our Stories Heal.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Theatre

Grantor

The University of Texas at Austin

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Manning, Courtney Nicole

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Dawson, Kathryn

Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember

• Alrutz, Megan

• Applied theatre
• Devised theatre
• Healing-centered engagement
• Community theatre
• Autoethnography
• Embodiment
• Dance
• Drama-based pedagogy

Language dc:language.iso

en

Identifier URI

http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/44094

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/117213