26isfam151
10.3205/26isfam151
urn:nbn:de:0183-26isfam1516
Meeting Abstract
Unchartered waters: Using film to demonstrate the embodiment of Kneipp hydrotherapy practice with children
Blakeslee
Blakeslee
Sarah
S
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
author
Leinich
Leinich
Thurid
T
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
author
Gerganova
Gerganova
Marinela
M
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
author
Czakert
Czakert
Judith
J
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
author
Stritter
Stritter
Wiebke
W
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
author
Seifert
Seifert
Georg
G
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
author
German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Düsseldorf
610
20260612
engl
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Dieser Artikel ist ein Open-Access-Artikel und steht unter den Lizenzbedingungen der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (Namensnennung).
M0652
151
International Society for Arts and Medicine
The Healing Arts – Forging Alliances of Arts & Medicine
Poster Abstracts
Berlin
20260618
20260620
26isfam151
TextBackground: Kneipp cold water hydrotherapy stems from a 150-year, holistic, traditional medicine practice and is applied to children in kindergartens, but this practice is little understood outside of German-speaking countries. Arts-based research is one way to better understand and communicate tactile practices involving children. Film provides a medium for communicating traditional Kneipp practice.Objectives: Through a film, the embodiment and experience of Kneipp cold water applications with children is communicated and supplements text-based findings.Methods: Using an ethnographic embodied phenomenological approach (Lock, 1993; Merleau-Ponty, 1980) children’s interactions with water were filmed and this practice was narrated. Visual documentation of kindergarten-based Kneipp water practices with children were captured through film as an ethnographic medium to communicate sensory with cold water exposure (Pink, 2009, 2015).Results & Insights: Visuals of cold-water applications on the skin communicate thermoregulatory applications and practices through children’s visual reactions and embodiment. This film demonstrates the self-efficacy that children gain with regular practice, as well as how children learn and teach others by engaging with cold water. At the same time, equally-important ethical considerations of intimacy remain about filming children’s bodies are discussed.Conclusion & Implications: Embodiment practices with children are well-communicated through film and augment and lend to the scientific evidence experiential practice of hydrotherapy.
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