Self-discovery, flow, and facilitating transformative threshold spaces as an act of self-care in higher education

Author Identifier

Narelle Lemon: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1396-5488

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Title

Navigating Tensions and Transitions in Higher Education: Effective Skills for Maintaining Wellbeing and Self-care

First Page

124

Last Page

137

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

School

School of Education

RAS ID

71811

Comments

Silk, M., & Lemon, N. (2025). Self-discovery, flow, and facilitating transformative threshold spaces as an act of self-care in higher education. In Navigating tensions and transitions in higher education (pp. 124-138). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032701349-13

Abstract

Unexpected delights can be found in myriad places and expressed in many ways. The actions and interchanges presented here demonstrate how two people – educators, creative practitioners, and collaborators – embed the possibility of such delight into tasks and activities for others to share. As we embrace dialogic writing as our guiding framework in this chapter, we extend an invitation for you as the reader to become an active participant in this shared space. Here, you will find an opportunity to engage in thinking, reflection, writing, conversation, and the exchange of experiences centred around the topics of individual self-care and our collective wellbeing. Stories recounted in the dialogue will expose the effects of our experience design on individual participants, the collective, our self and selves. Experience designers must take all senses into account when inviting others into a liminal space, that odd sensation of being in between not-knowing and knowing. For some of you, this space may feel familiar and comforting, allowing you to acknowledge and share your insights openly. Yet, we also recognize that for others, this may be a new and uncharted territory. It might be a realm that you have previously kept concealed, hidden away from the watchful eyes of colleagues and peers. Our conversation breaks free from the confines of secrecy to float new ways of knowing, being, and becoming. Hence, the request of you is to meet the unexpected delight we encounter in designing experiences of self-discovery, through a collective expression of achievement, understanding, and joy.

DOI

10.4324/9781032701349-13

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