ABSTRACT
This chapter will discuss the generation of my new Participatory Practice-Based Research (PartPb) framework through which deep relational encounters between practitioners and participants can be enabled. It provides a scaffold for generating opportunities for sustained one-to-one encounters between creative practitioners operating in performance, arts and health contexts with participant-subjects. As part of my practice-based research creative strategy, I first introduce the methods included in my overall research design, interwoven with psychological, phenomenological and maternal theories tested in-action. This is then followed by an overview of my PartPb project Transformational Encounters: Touch, Traction, Transform (TETTT). I discuss the co-formation of my PartPb framework, which includes an outer PbR scaffold and inner Gestalt psychotherapeutic core, in interplay with TETTT. This chapter incorporates a discussion of the ethical and artistic challenges faced in the realisation of my PartPb research and signposts the new knowledge and insights gained.
