Meditations on a Green Light Bulb

Jonathan Wyatt

doi:10.1525/dcqr.2019.8.3.49

Meditations on a Green Light Bulb

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This essay is drawn from the author’s book, Therapy, Stand-Up, and the Gesture of Writing: Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry, which explores the connections between therapy,stand-up comedy, and writing as a method of inquiry. The essay is a poetic meditation on being given the green light and not taking it. A meditation on permission, a meditation on warning: on the insistent green flash the performer heeds or ignores; and the invitations the client gives—there, then gone—there, then gone—there, then gone—that the therapist takes or misses. It is a meditation on hope, regret, and shame.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	49-54
Journal	Departures in Critical Qualitative Research
Volume	8
Issue number	3
Early online date	18 Sept 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2019.8.3.49
Publication status	Published - 30 Sept 2019

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

materiality
stand-up come
therapy

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Published as Meditations on a Green Light Bulb Jonathan Wyatt Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Vol. 8 No. 3, Fall 2019; (pp. 49-54) DOI: 10.1525/dcqr.2019.8.3.49. ©2019 by the Regents of the University of California/Sponsoring Society or Association. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by [the Regents of the University of California/on behalf of the Sponsoring Society] for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified fee via Rightslink® or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center.
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1 Book

Therapy, Stand-Up, and the Gesture of Writing: Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry
Wyatt, J., 4 Dec 2018, 1 ed. New York; Abingdon: Routledge. 226 p. (Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives)
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'Creative-relational inquiry': What work can it do?
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6 Nov 2018
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Psychotherapy, stand-up comedy, and everyday life: Propositions via Félix Guattari's refrain
Jonathan Wyatt (Keynote speaker)
23 Feb 2018
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

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Therapy, Stand-Up, and the Gesture of Writing: Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry

Activities

'Creative-relational inquiry': What work can it do?

'Out here a man settles his own problems': fathers, identity, and learning from John Wayne

Psychotherapy, stand-up comedy, and everyday life: Propositions via Félix Guattari's refrain

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