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Taking care of the researcher – a nature and art-related activity retreat : Sharing natural space put humanity in perspective
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- Bojner Horwitz, Eva (author)
- Kungl. Musikhögskolan,Karolinska Institutet,Institutionen för musik, pedagogik och samhälle,Dep Public Health and Caring Sciences, Allmänmedicin /Family medicine, Uppsala Univ. and Dep of Clinical Neuroscience Karolinska Institutet
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Spännäri, Jenni (author)
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Langley, Julia (author)
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Jacobs, Bette (author)
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- Osika, W (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- IOS Press, 2020
- 2020
- English.
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In: Work. - : IOS Press. - 1051-9815 .- 1875-9270. ; 67:3, s. 535-548
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- BACKGROUND: There has been insufficient study about how academic working life of researchers can be supported. OBJECTIVE: We examine the use of a nature and art-related activity retreat designed for researchers. The purpose was to evaluate if and how researchers perceived different workshop experiences set in nature as meaningful and important with regards to their self-care. METHODS: A mixed group of six researchers from Sweden, Finland, and the United States met for a three-day retreat consisting of self-selected nature and art-related activities. From data constituted from participant reflections, a focus group interview, a three months follow-up questionnaire, and an analysis of the workshops undertaken; three major themes were identified: “Sharing and connection”, “Embodiment” and “Nature”.RESULTS: Analysis of the workshop-style exercises did not show significant variance in reported meaningfulness and usefulness related to the activity itself. However, there was a strong correlation between perceived value and shared experience where the sharing of the natural space was felt to put humanity in perspective. CONCLUSION: Organizing and systematizing health preventive retreats for researchers in academia may be an important part of the sustainabile academic community in which the researcher needs to be better taken care of in a more embodied way. Although this study was conducted prior to COVID-19, such retreats and potentially also on-line versions) could be useful for managing through the pandemic and afterwards, in our new “normal”.
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- academic stress; embodiment; nature retreat ; perception
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