ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces Body Mapping as developed in South Africa in the work with persons living with HIV. She lays out the method and applies it to women in times of transition in Kenya as well as in the UK. Body Maps are life-size creations that start with a person being traced around her whole body on paper. The drawings are then individually coloured paying attention to how body parts feel and are related to, rather than how the body appears. The work is transdisciplinary and includes elements of art therapy and poetry therapy. It is also partly based on the witnessing practice of authentic movement.
