26isfam167 10.3205/26isfam167 urn:nbn:de:0183-26isfam1674 Meeting Abstract Araque Araque Eliana E

EcoSomatics - Art & Science of Well-Being, BIH Berlin (External Facilitators)

author Kanitz Kanitz Anna A

EcoSomatics - Art & Science of Well-Being, BIH Berlin (External Facilitators)

author German Medical Science GMS Publishing House

Düsseldorf

610 20260612 engl This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Dieser Artikel ist ein Open-Access-Artikel und steht unter den Lizenzbedingungen der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (Namensnennung). M0652 167 International Society for Arts and Medicine The Healing Arts – Forging Alliances of Arts & Medicine Poster Abstracts Berlin 20260618 20260620 26isfam167 TextBackground: What difference does embodied and artistic practice make for how early-career-researchers relate to themselves, each other, and well-being as a relational, ecological process within academic communities? Amid ecological crisis, social fragmentation, and pervasive stress, EcoSomatics emerges at the intersection of art, science, and well-being. It understands health as a living, relational process unfolding within bodies, communities, and academic environments.Objectives: This workshop investigates how embodied and artistic practices foster well-being across individual, collective, and ecological levels among early-career-researchers. Rather than defining EcoSomatics, it explores what difference it makes as a lens and practice, shifting attention from isolated selfhood toward relational, process-based belonging. It asks what becomes possible when the body is experienced as a living organism within interdependent systems, and how an embodied, ecological perspective can strengthen belonging and well-being in academic contexts.Methods: Participants engage in embodied research through artistic practices, movement, sensory attention, ritual, reflective dialogue, scientific inquiry, and listening practices. The workshop functions as a living laboratory, a temporary ecology in which perception, embodiment, and relational presence generate shared sense-making and situated knowledge.Insights: Participants report shifts in bodily awareness, relational dynamics, and their sense of embeddedness within larger social and ecological contexts, alongside increased responsiveness and mutual support.Conclusion: EcoSomatics offers an alternative way of relating, sensing, and participating within the academic ecosystem. By weaving art and science into lived experience, it supports practices of re-membering – reconnecting body, society, and ecosystem as co-creative partners in health. 0 0 0 0