Carolyn B. Kenny – Reflections on a Humanitarian, A Scholar, A Master Teacher, an Elder – and a Friend.

Alpha Woodward

doi:10.15845/voices.v18i3.2566

Abstract

Highlights

Ecological and Systems perspectives fit with her affinity to phenomenology and to her indigenous roots; her authentic way of being – which required her to behold and to bear witness while participating in that witnessing
A Canadian colleague observed these coherent threads in a different way: Carolyn [ ... ] always seemed to be processing the present moment in a way that allowed it to fit properly into the greater universe of knowledge and experience
Ecological thinking and phenomenology were a potent combination and may have accounted for Carolyn’s “grounded otherly-ness” – at least as it appeared to me. Her introduction of Field Theory and systems thinking (1989) into the music therapy landscape freed us to think of relationship and the nonhierarchical nature of reality and disciplinary epistemologies in different ways

Summary

Introduction

“The forest represents my journey through life. It is my life. She developed her scholarship as she lived her life - through a phenomenological framework enriched by her deep connection to nature, and which was a rich personal resource.

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