통합예술치료박사과정생의 즉흥춤(Improvisation Dance)ㆍ난화(scribble) 작업 경험에 관한 자문화기술지

Abstract

This study describes the process in which a researcher, who is a counseling professional and a doctoral student in integrated art therapy, explored and gained insight into themselves through improvisational dance and expressive art activities, leading to personal growth and professional development as a counselor. The reflective self-inquiry technique was used to analyze this process and draw conclusions. The results of the study are as follows: First, the researcher, who had experienced attachment insecurities in childhood, found that the flow between their internal and external environments of the body had been blocked, leading to stiffness and tension. However, through improvisational dance and expressive art activities, the connection between body and emotions began to be reestablished. The researcher's body, which through these issues had their self esteem shrink within itself as if this was their original personality, started to relax and regain its natural resilience as their body opened up and engaged in a communication of will, support, and physical communion with group members. Through this experience, the researcher's body became more free and creative on stage, and the previously apprehensive and unstable body became a source of stability, firmly establishing self-esteem. Therefore, the implication of this study lies in using improvisational dance and expressive art activities in integrated art therapy as a method of exploring personal experiences in a cyclical and repetitive process, leading to the unconscious healing of self-wounds and the expandment and transforming of life domains. Additionally, the significance of the rare attempt of the usage of integrated art therapy-based reflective self-inquiry in the self-healing process of counseling clients in Korea can be recognized.