|mu| was a live dance theatre performance accompanied by a photography and art exhibition. It captured the thematic development of a PhD research process investigating the phenomenon of kinaesthetic empathy combining dance movement psychotherapy, phenomenology and cognitive neuroscience. The public performance considered questions such as (i) how do we perceive through our moving bodies, (ii) how does embodied practice inform our empathic relating to another’s lived experience and (iii) what are the emerging concepts of embodied empathy arising in clinical contexts?

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/25728