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Papers by Hillary Keeney
Dance, Movement and Spiritualities, 2014
Seiki jutsu is a unique self-healing and revitalization practice based on spontaneous expression.... more Seiki jutsu is a unique self-healing and revitalization practice based on spontaneous expression. The transformative art of handling seiki, the presumed vital life force, consists of transmitting enhanced seiki, a daily practice for its development, and healing modalities that address body movement and therapeutic conversation. Seiki jutsu differs from other movement-based practices in that it emphasizes spontaneity over choreographed form, and has little concern with explanation. This article introduces a brief history of seiki jutsu, and its relevance and application as a member of the somatic and conversational healing arts.
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
The Ju/’hoan Bushman origin myth is depicted as a contextual frame for their healing and transfor... more The Ju/’hoan Bushman origin myth is depicted as a contextual frame for their healing and transformative ways. Using Recursive Frame Analysis, these performances are shown to be an enactment of the border crossing between First and Second Creation, that is, pre-linguistic and linguistic domains of experience. Here n/om, or the presumed creative life force, is infused into the community. As the Ju/’hoan Bushmen struggle to maintain their way of life in the face of economic and political change, they are likely to increasingly come into contact with social service and other aid programs. Any future for social work with the Bushmen is served by an understanding of how they relate to n/om. In particular, supporting Bushman communities requires highlighting the importance of the way changing forms arise in their recurrent mythological border crossings, the heart of Bushman transformative
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
Dance, Movement & Spiritualities, 2014
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2011
We celebrate Robert Musikantow's encouragement to conceptualize hypnosis as an interactional... more We celebrate Robert Musikantow's encouragement to conceptualize hypnosis as an interactional event organized by circular causality where neither therapist nor client is seen as the sole (or primary) agent of action. It is an important theoretical step forward to go ...
This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Qualitative Report at NSUWorks... more This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Qualitative Report at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Qualitative Report by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks.
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
Abstract: There is an expressed desire across academic disciplines to move beyond the limitations... more Abstract: There is an expressed desire across academic disciplines to move beyond the limitations of linear, reductionist epistemologies and infuse teaching and learning with a greater recognition of relational interdependence, circular causality, patterns of ...
The early promise of family and systemic therapy arose as the field moved from the psychodynamic ... more The early promise of family and systemic therapy arose as the field moved from the psychodynamic emphasis on analysis and interpretation, to an emphasis on systemic interaction and circular interactivity. However, therapy as an interactional, systemic dance faded as the notion of 'systemic' regressed to another way of interpreting, rather than enacting. Cybernetics and systemic metaphors became usurped and translated as another form of interpretation, and the epistemological leap into cybernetic recursivity was never made. Hillary Keeney and Bradford Keeney highlight a crucial distinction for a more generative future for therapy: the shift from interpretative narrativity to an alternative of improvisational performance guided by interactivity. Readers are invited to consider how models of therapy can become obstacles to theraputic presence, turning into shackles that retard creative expression and foster worn out, cliched habits of action. The authors explore the limitations...
The Qualitative Report, 2012
The origin of recursive frame analysis (RFA) is revisited and discussed as a postmodern alternati... more The origin of recursive frame analysis (RFA) is revisited and discussed as a postmodern alternative to modernist therapeutic models and research methods that foster hegemony of a preferred therapeutic metaphor, narrative, or strategy. It encourages improvisational performance while enabling a means of scoring the change and movement of the contextual organization of communication. Here we revisit the origin of RFA, its subsequent development, and new directions it may pursue both in the domains of organizing therapeutic discourse and post hoc critical analysis. Key Words: Therapy Research, Qualitative Methods, Cybernetics, Recursive Frame Analysis, Improvisational Therapy. In the mid to late 80’s Bradford Keeney developed a qualitative research method named “recursive frame analysis” (RFA). A brief history and summary of its development can be found in Chenail (1990, 1991, 1995). Here we provide some reflection on its early development and propose some ways in which the tool can be ...
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
Dance, Movement and Spiritualities, 2014
Seiki jutsu is a unique self-healing and revitalization practice based on spontaneous expression.... more Seiki jutsu is a unique self-healing and revitalization practice based on spontaneous expression. The transformative art of handling seiki, the presumed vital life force, consists of transmitting enhanced seiki, a daily practice for its development, and healing modalities that address body movement and therapeutic conversation. Seiki jutsu differs from other movement-based practices in that it emphasizes spontaneity over choreographed form, and has little concern with explanation. This article introduces a brief history of seiki jutsu, and its relevance and application as a member of the somatic and conversational healing arts.
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
The Ju/’hoan Bushman origin myth is depicted as a contextual frame for their healing and transfor... more The Ju/’hoan Bushman origin myth is depicted as a contextual frame for their healing and transformative ways. Using Recursive Frame Analysis, these performances are shown to be an enactment of the border crossing between First and Second Creation, that is, pre-linguistic and linguistic domains of experience. Here n/om, or the presumed creative life force, is infused into the community. As the Ju/’hoan Bushmen struggle to maintain their way of life in the face of economic and political change, they are likely to increasingly come into contact with social service and other aid programs. Any future for social work with the Bushmen is served by an understanding of how they relate to n/om. In particular, supporting Bushman communities requires highlighting the importance of the way changing forms arise in their recurrent mythological border crossings, the heart of Bushman transformative
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
Dance, Movement & Spiritualities, 2014
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2011
We celebrate Robert Musikantow's encouragement to conceptualize hypnosis as an interactional... more We celebrate Robert Musikantow's encouragement to conceptualize hypnosis as an interactional event organized by circular causality where neither therapist nor client is seen as the sole (or primary) agent of action. It is an important theoretical step forward to go ...
This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Qualitative Report at NSUWorks... more This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Qualitative Report at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Qualitative Report by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks.
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019
Abstract: There is an expressed desire across academic disciplines to move beyond the limitations... more Abstract: There is an expressed desire across academic disciplines to move beyond the limitations of linear, reductionist epistemologies and infuse teaching and learning with a greater recognition of relational interdependence, circular causality, patterns of ...
The early promise of family and systemic therapy arose as the field moved from the psychodynamic ... more The early promise of family and systemic therapy arose as the field moved from the psychodynamic emphasis on analysis and interpretation, to an emphasis on systemic interaction and circular interactivity. However, therapy as an interactional, systemic dance faded as the notion of 'systemic' regressed to another way of interpreting, rather than enacting. Cybernetics and systemic metaphors became usurped and translated as another form of interpretation, and the epistemological leap into cybernetic recursivity was never made. Hillary Keeney and Bradford Keeney highlight a crucial distinction for a more generative future for therapy: the shift from interpretative narrativity to an alternative of improvisational performance guided by interactivity. Readers are invited to consider how models of therapy can become obstacles to theraputic presence, turning into shackles that retard creative expression and foster worn out, cliched habits of action. The authors explore the limitations...
The Qualitative Report, 2012
The origin of recursive frame analysis (RFA) is revisited and discussed as a postmodern alternati... more The origin of recursive frame analysis (RFA) is revisited and discussed as a postmodern alternative to modernist therapeutic models and research methods that foster hegemony of a preferred therapeutic metaphor, narrative, or strategy. It encourages improvisational performance while enabling a means of scoring the change and movement of the contextual organization of communication. Here we revisit the origin of RFA, its subsequent development, and new directions it may pursue both in the domains of organizing therapeutic discourse and post hoc critical analysis. Key Words: Therapy Research, Qualitative Methods, Cybernetics, Recursive Frame Analysis, Improvisational Therapy. In the mid to late 80’s Bradford Keeney developed a qualitative research method named “recursive frame analysis” (RFA). A brief history and summary of its development can be found in Chenail (1990, 1991, 1995). Here we provide some reflection on its early development and propose some ways in which the tool can be ...
The Creative Therapist in Practice, 2019