I am always proud to contribute to evidence on the interconnectivity of mind-body and spirit for health and wellness, especially when I can publish with my students! This research on meditation and health has just been published with @SpringerNature in peer-reviewed Journal of Religion and Health (JORH). “Spiritually focused meditation practices appear to increase the… Read More New Meditation & Spirituality Research
Thank you for the many participants who joined me for today’s presentation on self-care at St. Michael and All Angels Church, Sanibel Florida. The presentation is now available to attendees. Click on the link below to access: Self-Care (Fortune 2019) St Ms-40 min vrs You can contact me at lfortune@saybrook.edu with any questions.
Bentz, V. M. & Giorgino, V. (2016) Contemplative social research. Santa Barbara, CA: Fielding Press. Newly released, this edited scholarly work includes chapters on infusing research and scholarship with embodied, including Luann Fortune’s chapter, Retracing the Labyrinth, which describes her application of actual labyrinth walking to support indepth analysis in phenomenological research. To view an… Read More Now Available: Contemplative Social Research
Contemplative Social Research, edited by Valerie Bentz and Vincenzo Giorgino (University of Turin), brings together 11 chapters from scholars around the world on theories of self, mind, culture, and society. The University of Lodz, the University of Basque Country, the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona as well as Drexel, Claremont, Saybrook University, and U. of Pennsylvania… Read More Soon to be Released: Contemplative Social Research
This recording of a body scan exercise was a research tool for the self-study on use of body-scan technique for somatic awareness (Fortune, 2011). Fortune, L. D. (2011). Essences of somatic awareness as captured in a verbally directed body scan: A phenomenological case study. In R. L. Lanigan (Ed.), Schutzian Research: A Yearbook of Worldly… Read More
Today I was fortunate to participate in a Labyrinth Workshop conducted by Turning Point Consultants (see http://www.Turningpointconsultants.com). This group has introduced a wide range of populations to labyrinth as a tool for completive practice and healing. Setting aside the profound personal experience I enjoyed, it reminded me of the power of labyrinth walking as a discernment… Read More Embodied Research Techniques
One of my student colleagues and I recently embarked on a conversation about educating children for improved somatic awareness. I think this is a topic ripe for attention. I have long been an advocate of teaching young children somatic awareness and experiential anatomy (Olsen, 1998). While the Mindfulness movement has taken off for kids, I… Read More Discussions on somatic education
by Luann Drolc Fortune, PhD Stage of Change theory (Prochaska et al., 1994) provides a frame for incorporating embodiment perspectives and somatic techniques into the research process. It assumes five stages: (a) precontemplation: what about this situation is calling to my scholarship; (b) contemplation: how is this question relevant; (c) preparation: how do I design… Read More The Embodied Researcher: Stages of Change in the Research Process
This panel on recent research and scholarship was presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of THE SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES (SPSH) in Atlanta on October 8, 2015. The purpose of this panel was to share a conceptual model and experiential methods for incorporating embodiment into scholarship and research. Phenomenological literature abounds with references for… Read More Embodied Research: A Scholarly Panel
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