Eco dance movement psychotherapy (EDMP) and queer embodied kinship with the more than human world

Abstract

This article interweaves personal and professional experiences of embodied encounters with the more-than-human world. It presents ideas around the benefits of an eco-dance movement psychotherapy (EDMP) approach, particularly emphasising queer experiences and perspectives, interweaving perspectives which situate both embodiment and the climate crisis to be deeply entangled in social and political issues. I will consider how an EDMP approach can disrupt and support the unmaking of these embodied scripts and how situating the body as an embodied ecology can offer new ways of thinking, feeling, perceiving and imagining in kinship with the more human world. Dance movement psychotherapy (DMP), with its attention to the embodiment, felt sense, and relationship, can offer us a radical way to emotionally wake up to our interrelation to the more than human earth.