Academic Archive

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Get instant access to the academic articles I wrote over the years as well as my Ph.D. thesis. If you don’t have an academic library subscription, purchasing all the articles and/or books in this Archive would cost at least €250 (and that is with 4 or 5 of them being freely accessible!). With the "Choose what you pay" you help me to develop further Wild Soul Resources. Thank you so much for your donation!

Contents

Welcome and Roadmap

Thank you so much for your interest in my written work. Publishing is an important part of the academic endeavour. It is truly a labour of love, because you never get paid for what you write!

I am deeply grateful that you are honouring the many months and years that have gone in crafting these articles, book chapters for edited volumes, book reviews and one editorial that I wrote together with Amanda Williamson, and which is significant for the Way of the Wild Soul. 

Under copyright law, I cannot give you all the articles exactly as they have appeared in print. Some articles were fine as they are already in the public domain. For others you will find what is called the "pre-print version" which is the final text (of which I have copyright), before it went through the layout process of the journal or book. The content is exactly the same, but it is a simple text document instead of a printed layout. 
I organised the pieces by type of content, because sometimes you might want to read something short (go for a book review or an editorial), sometimes a bit more in-depth, like the articles or book chapters for edited volume. The character of a chapter in an edited volume is also slightly different to that of an article. Within each section, the pieces are ordered chronologically.

If you're interested in something really detailed, you'll find my PhD thesis included. Although you might have already seen this through the University of Roehampton's website, their upload misses the introductory chapter (no matter how often I've tried to rectify it, they continue to ignore this). So here you've got the full monty.

Chronological Order of Appearance

Articles & Performances

2020: Four body- and nature-based practices to move your life force
2020: Dancing with the Spirits: Being grounded and being able to fly are not mutually exclusive (pre-print)
2020: Embodied Methodologies: The Body as Research Instrument (online presentation with three separate videos
2020: East Wind: Dancing the Story of my Ectopic Pregnancy
2017: A Personal Relationship with the Mysteries: (Re)discovering the Enchanted Garden Through Movement and the Body
2014: Dance as a moving spirituality: A case study of Movement Medicine

Chapters in Edited Volumes

2026: Nature, the Environment and Solitude (in print)
2021: Calibrating the Body: Embodied Research Strategies for Attuning to Subtle Information. Chapter 17 in: Subtle Agroecologies
2020: Soul loss and retrieval: Restoring wholeness through dance. Chapter in: Spiritual Herstories: Call of the Soul in Dance Research (pre-print)
2018: Clearing the way towards soulful scholarship. Chapter 22 in: A World of Muscle, Bone and Organs
2017: Dance, Empowerment and Spirituality in Movement Medicine. Chapter 9 in: Danswetenschap in Nederland (pre-print)
2024: The Way of the Wild Soul: a map for embodied and nature-based spirituality

Book Reviews and Editorial

2019: Review of The Embodied Teen by Susan Bauer (pre-print)
2017: Editorial by Williamson and Kieft. Movements of deities and the Goddess: Contemporary applications and perspectives
2016: Review of Landscape of Now by Kent de Spain (pre-print)
2016: Review of Embodied Inquiry by Celeste Snowber (pre-print)

Books & PhD Thesis

2013: Doctoral Thesis: Dance, Empowerment and Spirituality
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2013: Doctoral Thesis Title Page
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2022: E-Book Food as Medicine: Culinary Alchemy in Your Body
2016: Integraal Denken en Doen in de Landbouw: Naar 10 denkstappen van Jaap van Bruchem.