Celebrating Bill Torbert’s life
I’m just back from a memorial for Bill Torbert in Boston. It was soul-nourishing to be among developmental friends. It was a friendship themed ceremony at the garden campus of the Boston College Law School. Revs. Cara Miller and David Mc Callum led us ‘Quaker style.’ Each of the 100+ gathered were asked to listen into […]
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In memoriam Bill Torbert: Timely action to the end
William Rockwell “Bill” Torbert died on October 21, 2025 at his home in Boston, having been in home hospice since the summer. Surrounded by family and friends, Bill died mindfully and well. Bill was 81. The global action research community remembers his integrative contribution: collaborative developmental action inquiry. This has been key in mainstreaming language […]
Read More...Yes/ And Podcast #1. Origins & Intersections Jemma Llewellyn talks with Hilary Bradbury and Bill Torbert.
There’s a new Yes/ And podcast series for AR+. The inaugural podcasts are by Jemma Llewellyn, Ph.D. Cand., who hosts us in getting underway in a conversation with Hilary Bradbury and Bill Torbert. Jemma shares the backstory and introduces the inaugural podcast: “Although the conversations in each podcast episodes are inspired by the ART 2022 […]
Read More...Numbskull in the Theatre of Inquiry. Bill Torbert’s new book.
Numbskull in the Theatre of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science by William R. Torbert (Waterside Productions, Cardiff CA, 2021) is now available at Amazon. Numbskull is an anti-heroic memoir of Torbert’s life of discovering and enacting a theory and practice of leadership development, organization development, and scientific development. This highly readable book illustrates […]
Read More...Developmental Friendships in ART with Bill Torbert and Jean Hartmann.
What is the role of friendship in ART? Bill Torbert hosted a preGathering conversation which Jean Hartmann illustrates in the delightful video snippet. Bill shares: “So far I’ve learned most about whatever I think and feel about developmental friendships from the book Hilary Bradbury and I wrote, Eros/Power: Love in the Spirit of Inquiry (Integral […]
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