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Embodied relational research: How can researchers' competences in exploring existential aspects be enhanced?
Janne Brammer Damsgaard1, Morten Pilegaard2, Svend Brinkmann3
1Health, Department of Public Health, Nursing, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark.
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
|October 18, 2022
Summary
Enhance researcher skills for exploring existential healthcare aspects through an aesthetic-holistic approach. This involves developing embodied relational research methods to understand patient experiences beyond rational language.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare research methodology
- Existential phenomenology
- Qualitative research
Background:
- Addresses the need to enhance researchers' competences in exploring existential aspects of healthcare.
- Highlights the importance of understanding patient experiences through an aesthetic-holistic research approach.
- Emphasizes the necessity of developing skills for comprehending embodied, ethically sensitive, and sustainable caring practices.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify personal competences and approaches for research that explores the subjective human existence ('what it is like').
- To enhance understanding and communication of patient experiences and issues that matter most.
Main Methods:
- Discusses theoretical and practical approaches to enhance researcher competences.
- Proposes an 'Embodied Relational Research' approach.
- Emphasizes finding oneself through self, language (dialogue), and the other, involving ontological listening.
Main Results:
- Argues for a research approach that integrates self-reflection, dialogue, and relational understanding.
- Suggests that emotions and bodily sensations can be barriers to deeper, metaphysical listening.
- Advocates for an attentive pace and aesthetic attunement to grasp tacit existential dimensions.
Conclusions:
- Researchers exploring humanity should cultivate awareness, sensitivity, and openness towards others' experiences.
- Contemplative and creative dimensions are crucial for enhancing research competences in existential inquiry.
- The proposed 'Embodied Relational Research' facilitates a deeper, more holistic understanding of human existence in healthcare.
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