Motown and Body Movement Therapy

Dr. Robert McInerney

The Mobile Thriving Respite has been wonderfully successful. I’d post pics but I’m waiting for permissions. At Motown Night, lots of people came (approx. 40), lots of smiles, tapping their feet, and “almost” dancing. The student ethnographers were impressive – they socialized and talked in-depth with folks as I saw many in long conversations, serious looking at times, laughing at times, and so on.

Yesterday we had body movement therapy. Again, a nice size group showed up. The students made sandwiches and we played music. Peyton lead the way with the BMT.

As Kelsey Long, the Director of the activities describes “Some of the people participated in the BMT, some people were unable to because of physical issues but did what they could sitting down, some got really into it with the group. All that participated seemed to have a great time with it, regardless. I spoke to some folks there, and everyone seemed to have a nice relaxing time. Conversations that I had with folks varied from tearful conversations about difficult situations that someone was going through, to our favorite moments from Seinfeld.”