The Compassionate Imagination: Things that bring emotional intelligence to life (360G-Wellcome-203697_Z_16_Z)

£4,779

This grant will fund inaugural workshops for six core members of the Compassionate Imagination network. The network builds upon established professional connections, including collaborations with theatre makers. Progressing current thinking about critical medical humanities (Viney, Callard, and Woods, 2015) it addresses an Arts and Health remit, working in conjunction with the Compassionate Mind Foundation’s leading practitioners of compassion-based approaches to education. The network’s pilot activities will involve school students as participant-researchers in a project to bring emotional intelligence (Mayer and Salovey, 1990; Goleman, 1995) to life, using material objects to invoke the flow of compassion. The inaugural network workshops, scheduled for 23rd-24th June 2016, centre upon knowledge exchange towards honing a Wellcome Seed Award application (deadline: 5 August 2016). Our discussions will address three key questions: How are compassion and imagination related in: a) contemporary clinical psychology, b) contemporary performance and live art, c) recent findings from the archaeology of human origins. From these perspectives, what is understood about material engagement (of humans with objects) and its relation to compassion? Inspired and informed by knowledge exchange amongst the core network, what research and development strategies are best suited to experiential learning in this field?

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 4779
Applicant Surname Iball
Approval Committee Internal Decision Panel for C&S
Award Date 2016-06-30T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2015/16
Grant Programme: Title Small grant in H&SS
Internal ID 203697/Z/16/Z
Lead Applicant Dr Helen Iball
Partnership Value 4779
Planned Dates: End Date 2017-01-23T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2016-06-23T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Yorkshire and the Humber