Embodied leadership: A Perspective on Reciprocal Body Movement

Helen Payne; Pauliina Jääskeläinen

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Embodied leadership: A Perspective on Reciprocal Body Movement

Helen Payne, Pauliina Jääskeläinen

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This chapter explores the concept of embodied leadership and its ontological and epistemological underpinnings in educational and other organisational settings. Embodiment, derived from phenomenology, emphasises body-mind entanglement and the human body’s embeddedness in its cultural, historical, and social context. In this chapter, we explore what it means at the concrete level of body movements if we consider leadership as an embodied, relational phenomenon. To concretize these ideas, we use examples from dance movement therapy-based leadership facilitation. The purpose is to show how defining embodiment as reciprocal bodily movement in the ‘flesh’ of organisations can lead to a more holistic understanding of leadership.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook on Leadership in Education
Editors	Philip A. Woods, Amanda Roberts, Meng Tian, Howard Youngs
Place of Publication	Cheltenham, UK and USA
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing
Chapter	5
Pages	60–73
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781800880429
ISBN (Print)	9781800880412
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880429.00011
Publication status	Published - 17 Nov 2023

Keywords

Embodiment
leadership development
experiential learning
phenomenology
dance movement therapy

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