AR+ Members

Members are Action Research for Transformations (ARTists) invited to gather in the spirit of developmental friendship.  In our gatherings, online and in person, we aim to bring ART (action-oriented research for transformation) alive in - and have it ripple through - our personal and community micro-worlds.

Membership is by invitation. A minimal requirement for invitation is first to get to know other members through engaging in AR+ activity, such as a coLAB.

All members donate annually and are part of any and all coLABs that support their work.  

Let us know if you are interested in joining us!


Alastair Wyllie
Fife, Scotland
Linked In

Alastair writes... After a first career as a professional actor, and a second career as a European metropolitan city planning network and project manager, I now facilitate leadership and organizational development through action inquiry, executive and team coaching, and whole systems collaborative learning.

I have a growing practice in coaching and OD supervision, with a particular interest in working with internal coaches, business partners, organization developers, and change agents. I also teach and supervise on Roffey Park Institute’s Masters in People & Organizational Development. Much of my work is still within international and multicultural contexts.

I completed a first-person doctoral inquiry into professional practice and being and doing as a practitioner. It is an inductive inquiry, from which I drew universal conclusions from my unique reflections on my sense-of-self and my experiences as a series of experiments. By developing myself as a practitioner, and my capacity to intervene in my own systems and in those of my clients, I, thereby, continue to further develop my practice."


Alessandra Piccoli

Bolzano - Bozen, Italy

Alessandra writes... "Master's degree in social economy management and doctorate in social pedagogy with a thesis on solidarity agriculture. She has a 15 years’ experience in social and educational planning and project management. She is currently a research fellow at the Free University of Bolzano."


Alicia Forde

Boulder, Colorado, USA

LinkedIn

Alicia writes... "The Reverend Alicia Roxanne Forde serves with the Unitarian Universalist Association as the Director of the International Office. Alicia is passionate about engaging individuals and communities in discerning what they most care about and working alongside others as they seek to enact Love and Justice in this world. She has developed a profound appreciation for self-care, spiritually grounded leadership/organizational development, and the crucial importance of meaningful connections in establishing sustainable lives.

 Alicia was born and spent her formative years in Trinidad and Tobago. She identifies as an African-descent, queer, cis-gender female with deep roots in Tobago. She considers herself bi-cultural and is grateful that her formative years – and ongoing education – enabled her to cultivate a transnational feminist perspective. Alicia is a certified Spiritual Director and has a strong interest in health and wellness. When she's not hiking, you can find her reading, working-out, or walking with her favorite podcasts. She is a graduate of The Iliff School of Theology (MDiv ’03) and currently lives with her partner in Boulder, Colorado." 


Astrid Kunert

Astrid Kunert
Munich, Germany
Linked In

Astrid writes... "Having worked for many years in qualitative social and policy research and in change projects where the “research object” is to investigate or change, I am very happy to be able to combine working with and through AR projects with my inner quest for transformative and co-creative learning.  I value the interweaving of research, intervention, learning and communication, understood as a joint process, as particularly sustainable and - quite personally - meaningful.

In the face of the socio-ecological crisis that deeply affects us all, transformation is needed at many levels, in many dimensions - and the exchange of developmental friends. I'm looking forward to it!"


Andrea Rodericks

Andrea Rodericks
Live/work between state of Goa, India and Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Linked In

Andrea writes... "Over years of working on persistent development challenges and the pursuit of opportunities to overcome them, I found myself drawn to exploring their complexity and the behavioral, social, political, and institutional forces that shape them. In my consulting practice, I focus on multidisciplinary program design, learning and collaboration processes, and organizational transitions.

These days I am particularly interested in understanding and telling the story of people’s inner and outer developmental journeys (including my own). By that I mean, how purposefully overcoming our barriers and developing and transforming ourselves and our relationships with each other can help us more meaningfully contribute to a more just, happy, playful, and regenerative world in our lifetimes and for future generations.

I am trying to make more space in my life for creative writing, art, and experimenting with applying principles from the natural world in my work and play."


Ben Teehankee

Ben Teehankee

De La Salle U. Manila, Philippines
Linked In

"Dr. Benito "Ben" L. Teehankee is the Jose E. Cuisia Professor of Business Ethics at the Department of Management and Organization (where he served as founding Department Chairman in 2011-14) of the Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business of De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines.  He is Head of the Business for Human Development Network (BHDN) under the Center for Business Research and Development and president of the Association of Faculty and Educators of DLSU. He teaches strategic management, management theory, humanistic management, action research and sustainable business.

He serves as member of the Ethics Committee of the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP), co-chair for the Shared Prosperity Committee of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) and  board trustee of the Shareholders Association of the Philippines (SharePhil) where he advocates inclusive and humanistic corporate governance among Philippine companies.  He also serves on the governing board of the International Humanistic Management Association  (IHMA) and the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management ASEAN group.

His research areas are in business ethics, humanistic management, action research and critical realism. He writes columns on business ethics and humanistic management  for The Manila Times and BusinessWorld."


Bjørn Uldall

Bjørn Uldall
Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark
Linked In
Website

Bjørn writes... "I continue to question how I, as a privileged white male with from a Scandinavian culture, may join with the rest of the human race in finding our collective way out of this dead-end civilization street we currently seem to be racing down.

The pieces of that puzzle that I seem to connect to and wish to explore further with others involve the intersection of adult development, next-stage organisations and leadership, relational action inquiry, regenerative ecology, and the notion of potential meta-modern cultures evolving.

I am a partner of re:lead where I support the development of business leaders and organisations, and engage in action research initiatives towards this end."


Chris Riedy

Chris Riedy

Blog


Chris writes... "Chris Riedy is Professor of Sustainability Transformations and Director of Graduate Research at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney. He is a trans-disciplinary action researcher working on governance, communication and social change for sustainable futures. Chris draws on sociological and political theory, narrative theory and futures thinking to design, facilitate and evaluate practical experiments in transformative change towards sustainable futures. He is an Advisor to the Transformations Community, a Senior Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance project, a member of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network and the New Economy Network Australia, and is on the Editorial Board of Futures and Action Research. He writes a blog on living within planetary boundaries called Planetcentric."


Dana Carmen

Dana Carman
Portland, Oregon
Dana's Website

Dana writes... "A key life theme for me is how to have global wings and local roots. My interests lie at the intersection of where our current global climate crisis meets our own psychological development and awakening. I'm motivated by the possibilities that arise when individual and collective healing meets creative action."


Heidi Gutekunst

Helsinki, Finland

LinkedIn

Heidi's Website

Heidi writes... "It is terrifyingly intriguing to be living on this earth at a time facing multidisciplinary needs for change. It makes me overwhelmed as I think of my children and future grandchildren and hope for a community of deep and safe inquiry in AR+. My current interest is in transformation on three levels, the individual, the relational and the systemic. In 2014 I co-founded Amara Collaboration with the intention to double the worldwide number of leaders and communities capable of creating a sustainable and safe world for generations to come.

Another topic close to my heart is working with gender dynamics and supporting women’s journeys to decision-making position as I believe we need a greater number of women leaders for creating a sustainable future for generations to come."


Hilary Bradbury

Ireland

Hilary's bio

Hilary Bradbury, founder & curator at AR+ Foundation writes "I have the (im)modest intention of living a life of beauty and friendship while also muddling toward a more life enhancing civilization with interesting people.  

I became aware of the necessity for inner change when working as an elected official (Green Party) in Los Angeles. It was a baptism by fire as I learned to combine curiosity and empathy with accomplishing tangible political change. That grew me up and calls me forward!   

In AR+ I seek to weave together my inner political actor - the one concerned with external change for the world - to a more purpose centered "Zen-Druid inspired practice."  Practically this means supporting co-leadership among change agents in the work of transformations" as we practice together in being a community of change."


Ilaria Distefano

Ilaria Distefano
San Diego, California, USA – and Italy and France
Ilaria's Website

Ilaria writes... "I am delighted to be part of AR+ and explore, express, and expand power-and-love-in-action in such wonderful company!

I have been working in People & Organizational Development in the corporate world all my career, practicing ericksonian hypnosis and metaphysical explorations in parallel.

My experience with deep grief decisively brought our spiritual essence and Oneness to the forefront, in my life as in my work, and I am now enjoying integrating different aspects of my practices (and myself!) in service of personal and systemic regeneration.

I love working with leadership practitioners and leaders in organizations and in the community who intend to dismantle obsolete patterns that are holding us back and disconnected, and live and lead from our essential Oneness.

My recent doctoral dissertation gathered a group of fellow leadership coaches embracing the perspective of Wholeness and wishing to expand consciousness and capacities together through action inquiry.

My current ARTistic endeavors focus on the expansion of our individual and collective capacities for intuitive and embodied ways of knowing/being in relation/co-creating, leadership as love, growth through grief and trauma healing."


Jemma Llewellyn

Jemma Llewellyn
Wales, UK and Canada.

Jemma writes... "Originally from Wales, UK, I am currently living, studying, and working on Turtle Island, colonially known as Canada. My PhD in Critical Studies in Improvisation is located at the University of Guelph, which resides within the Between the Lakes Purchase (Treaty 3), treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Dish with One Spoon territory; an allied agreement between the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Attawandaron peoples who have cared for the land since time immemorial.

Since moving to Canada, I have been drawn to Indigenous ecologies, languages, ceremonies, ways of knowing and being due to the relationship to land and song that is inherent in Welsh culture. This resonance has led me to explore the colonial history of Welsh citizens trying to save their language from erasure by English colonizers through their establishment of Y Wladfa (The Colony) in Patagonia, Argentina at the beginning of 1865.

Through the process of engaging with complex histories, reflective practices, deep and active listening my critically community-engaged PhD work commits to the process of decolonization of curriculums, classrooms, and community-based practice, through action-oriented arts practices that focus on anti-racism and anti-oppression approaches. Informed by my experience of working internationally in education settings, social services, and youth arts organizations, with children and young people from the ages of 6 to 25, including ESL students, and students with additional and complex learning needs, I believe that to make real social change in the world decision-makers need to address the transhistorical hierarchy paradigm between children/youth and adults, through youth-led dialogical participatory practices."


Julie Borup Jensen

Aalborg, Denmark

Julie writes... "Coming from an artistic profession as classical violinist, followed by the nurse profession, I found a home - research-wise - in action research. For me, action research is a place, from which I can go out into the world and work with forms of knowledge and knowing that are related to artistic dimensions of professional practice, and that are difficult to put into words, as for instance professional judgement, aesthetic knowing and thinking, and creative action. In my understanding, all these aspects are part of professional and life world knowing, but a part, for which it is necessary to create a language and new ways of communicating in order to truly understand knowledge, learning and change in communities and individuals.

Since 2009, I have been affiliated Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Denmark, as first a Ph.D.-student, then assistant and associate professor, and now as a full professor in Professional and Organizational Development through Aesthetic and Creative Processes. I am also the head of the research group Capacity Building and Evaluation, a group of 20 change-based researchers within the Danish public, private and volunteer sectors. I look forward to be a part of AR+."


Lone Hersted

Aalborg/Aarhus, Denmark

Lone writes... "For more than a decade, action research has captured my interest. I combine this approach with my research interests in relational leading, organizational learning, dialogical process, co-creation/co-production, sustainability, roleplaying, and creativity.

Drawing on my professional background as an actress, dramaturg, family therapist, and organizational consultant, I try to integrate my former work experience with my work as an action researcher.

Since 2011 I’ve been working as an Assistant Professor at Aalborg University (AAU), where I coordinate a Master’s program in Process Leading and Organizational Change. In this program action research forms a central part. In addition, I’m the responsible head of the research group named Processes and Learning in Organizations (POLO), which is a group of researchers dedicated to action research, organizational learning, sustainable leadership, and co-creative processes for learning and development. I look forward to meeting you all in the AR+ network!"


Louie Gardiner

Louie Gardiner
Edinburgh, Scotland
Website

Louie writes...

A poem composed 15th April 2016; last 3 verses amended 8th October 2018.

Lay to rest, Descartes

She (1) has risen, finally to lay to rest, Descartes – he who tore asunder that which was clear, and held as One so dear, by Heraclitus.

What grave distress and disarray we find ourselves amidst! Catastrophes abound, made mani-fest by man upon the ground, which, in arrogance, he claimed was his inviolable domain.

What shame befalls the man and men who swallowed whole the pill of Grand Delusion?

What shame for he – Descartes – and they, who clutched for power o’er universal destiny?

What shame for those who lost regard for what which held the pulse and purity of Life in tune – community?

That which is riven – into bit- parts and nonsense shards – proves its irreducibility.

We are undone by spit parts, razor minds and boundary lines, used as keys to bend and break the world to man’s design.

We are undone, unless – until she re-turns her in-fluence (2); reverts the thrust that threatens to obliterate her periodic gait.

We are undone, unless – until to her receptive space we yield; to go the way of inward flow, ‘enforming’ Nature’s gathering in.

(1)She refers to Nature as naturally inclusional (Rayner, 2018)
(2)Origins of “influence” – meant “inflow/influx”. In 13-16 Century this turned around to be-come “imperceptible and indirect action exerted to cause changes” outwardly.


Luea Ritter

Cyclades, Greece

Luea writes... "I serve as a process steward, action researcher, and co-founder of Collective Transitions, an action-learning organization dedicated to offering spaces and refining practices to deepen and widen collective capacities for navigating complexity. I facilitate participatory organizational and community development that embraces our times’ complexity, challenges, and potential.

In my work, I integrate social innovation and leadership processes, transformative change practices, and healing modalities to foster multi-sector collaboration and co-create the inner-outer conditions for long-term regenerative actions.

Pursuing a cutting-edge research-to-innovation Process for Holistic Development (PHD) with the Geneva-based TRANS4M Center for Integral Development, I explore the power of social fields and the art of building and maintaining coherence."


Máille Faughnan

New Orleans, USA

Maille writes... "Máille Faughnan is a social innovation instructor and research fellow at Tulane University with a Ph.D. in international development. She explores the potential of social changemaking methodologies (e.g., design and systems thinking) with many audiences, including educators, non-profit professionals, community organizers and students. Faughnan’s interdisciplinary work centers ethnographic, community-based research and critical, praxis-oriented pedagogy. Her field research has tested these approaches in Louisiana, Central America and East Africa across diverse changemaking arenas such as youth development, women’s micro-entrepreneurship, cultural development programs, reproductive health and university-community engagement."


Meghna Guhathakurta

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Meghna writes... "Dr. Meghna Guhathakurta taught International Relations at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh from 1984 to 2006. She is currently Executive Director of Research Initiatives, Bangladesh (RIB) a research support organized based in Dhaka, which specializes in participatory action research with marginalized communities. Dr. Guhathakurta graduated from the University of Dhaka and received her Ph.D from the University of York, UK. in Politics. Her field of specialization has broadly been international development, gender relations and South Asian politics. She is well published in migration trends in Partition histories, peace-building in post conflict societies and minority rights in South Asia. Meghna was Member, National Human Rights Commission, Bangladesh from 2016 to 2019 and is advisor to the International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission."


Miren Larrea

Basque, Spain

Miren writes... "Dr. Miren Larrea is an action researcher at Orkestra in Spain’s Basque region with a PhD in economics. Her work focuses on participatory policy & ‘power to the people’ governance. She teaches action research to students as a way of doing research that can make actual change and make people happier in the process. Her work is all about action and discussing conflict, even when it is hard, for without talking to each other about hard things, no progress can be made." 


Nancy Zamierowski

Portland, OR

Nancy writes... "Nancy Zamierowski is passionate about making the invisible valuable and improving upon the “how” of working together. She co-stewards Collective Transitions together with Luea Ritter, an action-learning and research organization dedicated to building shared capacity for transformational shifts. When not working, she can often be found on a nearby mountain top."


Simon Divecha

Europe

Dr. Simon Divecha writes... "Since unexpectedly coming to live in Europe I’ve been very much appreciating the depth of social innovation and energy here for making positive and powerful shifts.This is, and has been, the core of my passion and motivation. It lead to action research, a PhD with the University Medal for it, and many wonderful big-picture systems-change engagements (especially across the health and sustainability-corporate sectors). 

My home was North America and Australia/New Zealand before the pandemic, I did not expect to be in Europe! Yet, the strengths of engagement here have me (in a more formal work sense) connecting with organisations needing a good coach and/or Integral Sustainability assistance. Plus, I’m bringing Pacific Integral’s Generating Transformative Change program to Europe.

As a meta perspective across those parts: I'm looking to connect with, and amplify, all that seeks to create positive influences.

I am the co-founder of (be) Benevolution - https://be-benevolution.com/"


Søren Frimann

Aalborg, Denmark

LinkedIn

Soren writes... "Søren Frimann works with leadership development, action research, organizational learning processes, coaching. My background as a trained psychotherapist has founded an interest in working with challenges, patterns, and development individually, in groups and in organizations. My PhD in Organizational Communication and Dialogue led to an increased awareness of how we construct our inner lives, our relationships, our organizational lives, and our world through the use of language, metaphors, and narratives. Just before the turn of the millennium, I started working with action research and action learning in organizations. A central theme for me is to work with development, change and learning through dialogue and communication, which connects the individual with the relational, the local and organizational with the wider global and socio-ecological challenges in the world in a co-creative and relational perspective. The key interest for me is how we can co-create better relationships, learning and development spaces in organizations that focus on human equality, well-being and development, and the same time act in relation to the current global issues, which involves a wide range of imbalances that needs to be changed.

I am an Associate Professor working with leadership development, organizational learning and change through action research and action learning at Department of Culture and Learning, Aal­borg University, Denmark. I like to involve in organizational change and learning projects. I am section head of a section consisting of two research groups: Processes and Learning in Organizations (POLO) and Capacity Building and Evaluation (CaBE). I am a member the research group POLO, and member of the Danish Action Research Network."


Sujata Khandekar

India

Sujata writes... "Dr. Sujata Khandekar is the founding director of Community of Resource Organizations, one of India's foremost organizations for grassroots leadership and activism. CORO raises awareness of rights and challenges social norms. Sujata's work over the past three decades has further led her to explore empowerment of grassroots women in urban and rural contexts." 


Susanna Carman

Susanna Carman
Byron Bay, Australia
Website

Susanna writes... "I am a Strategic Designer who helps people solve complex problems - the types of problems that have to do with services, systems and human interactions. My sweet spot is at the intersection of design, leadership and learning where I bring a trans-disciplinary toolkit and myself as Thinking Partner to those who are tasked with delivering sustainable solutions amidst disruptive conditions. My consulting, facilitation and coaching services are designed to wrap an ecosystem of support around practitioners who are committed to their own conscious leadership, and to fulfilling potential in others.

I am also the founder of Transition Leadership Lab a 9-week learning lab for design, leadership and change practitioners who already have a sophisticated set of tools and mindset, but still feel these are insufficient to lead WITH others in a rapidly transforming world.

In another life, I was a professional musician who performed at Australia’s top festivals. More recently I’ve taken up playing the drums and spending as much time as possible paddle boarding in northern New South Wales where I live with my husband and teenage daughter."


Yvonne Buysman


Yvonne writes... "A key interest of mine is how we may connect and create spaces of inclusion, belonging and feeling at home in organizational and everyday life. As a technology leader in practice and an academic researcher by curiosity, I explore how experiential knowing may foster a participatory worldview.  Spending time in nature, gathering groups to collectively enjoy outdoor activities, and engaging community dialogue on topics such as eco-crisis open spaces in which I believe drive transformational systems change in new ways.

I embrace my approach to change through relational and developmental theories. My passion projects involve mentoring young leaders in social entrepreneurship and engaging communities in dialogue on sustainability and social justice. When I am not working or studying, then you can find me with my camera chasing down photos of Florida sunsets and wild birds and dreaming about my next travels to eco-centric, majestic places such as Antarctica." 


Friends of Personal Members/Founding Members

Bill Torbert

Bill Torbert
Boston, Massachusetts
Website

Bill writes.. "I am on the brink of completing a long-time book project, a kind of memoir of my first 33 years of trying to learn 'action inquiry' and transformational change.

I'm calling it Numbskull in The Theatre of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science. I hope to share discussions of it with members of AR+, ART, and the wider action research community."


Jean Hartmann

Jean Hartmann
Fort Lauderdale, FL by way of Pacific NW and the Island of Formosa
Linked In
Website

Jean writes...

"What is in my awareness:
From the edge of moon, the humanity lens can see into men and women
translucent without ego and agenda; only light waves of creativity and connectedness
We are oneness with each other and for each other

In our earthly beings, our bodies hold that gravitational pull
to be seen in light/shadow and feel acceptance and acknowledgment
to be embraced in love/power and not be denied affirmation and affection

How many more lifetimes have we left to give to and receive from each other
I give my allegiance to our developmental work together
Togetherness between us, around us, beyond us


My inner-outer developmental work:
I am healing … leaning into imagery to connect deeper with my embodied traumas, inviting my hidden selves (of different ages) to retell the pains and sufferings, while letting go the struggles and higher expectations that became my adult stuckness. A circling back to ease the un-settling memories and bringing forward the insights that are now available. Join me in AR+ MICA coLAB to explore our own reintegration journey using ‘collage circles’!"


Kent Glenzer

Kent Glenzer

Kent writes... "Pretty much obsessed these days with how action research can lead to structural, long term, and lasting alterations in relationships of power, privilege, and inter-generational inequity.   What, if anything needs to be different?  What practices from the discipline’s past need recalling?  What might this mean for the very identity of an action researcher?  More prosaic: underground hip-hop and punk lover, tennis fanatic, world’s worst-yet-most-committed birdwatcher."


Lara Catone

Lara Catone
Resides on the Unceded Territory of the Haudenosaunee Central New York State, USA
LinkedIn
Website

Lara writes... "As I stumble my way into scholarship, my primary interests in practice and research are 1. how to transform dynamics of gender and sexuality to harness relational power as a life-giving, generative force and 2. cultivating leadership that sources from somatic and intuitive ways of knowing . . . oh, and transforming/democratizing scholarship and research paradigms.

I love adult development and I am playing with mapping and scaffolding embodied sexual/erotic development. I am committed to co-creating spaces that heal collective trauma and inspire a deep, passionate love affair with all of life. When I'm not doing any of these things, I am developing my feral self by rolling around on the floor or wandering through the forest."


Lake Sagaris

Santiago, Chile

Lake writes... "Dr. Lake Sagaris co-leads a social change lab in Santiago Chile – Laboratorio del Cambio Social. PAR – Participative Action Research – is at the heart of their work to build collaboration between university and urban community. She started out learning urbanism and planning as a citizen fighting a highway project and that's when she got into the world of transportation. The lab’s action research projects emphasize civic culture, mobility and sustainable urban development. She emphasizes the importance of microcosms in our current global issues." 


Oguz Baburoglu

Turkey

Oguz writes... "Oguz Baburoglu is a professor and action researcher in the socio-technical tradition. His consultancy, ARAMA, has become the premier search conferencing team in Turkey. Bringing participative methods to all sorts of governance and university redesign has made them popular. Oguz is especially intent on helping to redesign the Future University about which he offers  a chapter in the AR+ Cookbook. The practice of ARAMA is to always seek opportunities to bring to people together to design or transform their institution. Future Design conferences seek every opportunity to mix different stakeholders or simply put, people, together both within the institution as well as between that institution and many other ones relevant to its success."


Petra Schweizer-Ries

Petra Schweizer-Ries
Bochum, Northrine-Westfalia, Germany

Petra writes... "My recent learnings are in the sector of science and spirituality and also in teaching about this. Since 2017, when I prepared and carried out a transition training at my own University and later joined the u.lab-MOOC, I am more involved in 1st and 2nd person research. 

From u.lab research community, that I am currently helping to moderate, and our meeting in Gothenburg (AR+T-Community) I feel empowered and confident, that this kind of transformative research can change the world. What we need is community, connectedness and practice. My main research interests center around the themes of societal change in my own University, one town quarter of Bochum and the Saarland, where we just started with this kind of process also including the art of hosting knowledge. 

My selected photo shows me in moderating and experiencing one meeting in our Bochum-Community."


Silvie Le Muzic

Silvie Le Muzic
Nesoddtangen - close to Oslo, Norway

Website

Silvie writes... "I love international communities and hang out, and train tools & skills, with global groups such as systems coaches, system design communities, women's circles and AR+ coLABs. I run a small coaching business and enjoy collaborating with women internationally. I am trained as an architect, in Systems Coaching, and in Co-Active Coaching.

I'm working on a doctoral thesis situated within Construction Management and applying AR and Systems Intelligence (Hämäläinen and Saarinen, 2004) in practice. We are a focus group of eleven practitioners from four key disciplines that explore the role of softer (human) factors in interdependent, multidisciplinary collaboration. There is progressive mention of softer factors as an untapped but important resource within the ongoing technological revolution and the future of construction jobs.

My learning edges are first and foremost, hacking the "academic game", i.e., writing and publishing. Second, I'm committed to transcending limiting emotions, and re-inventing myself having (voluntarily) removed myself from the professional privileges of larger corporate settings. Last, I am feeling the ´dimensional squeeze` of our times profoundly."


Sofia Kjellstrom

Sweden

Sofia writes... "Dr. Sofia Kjellström is an action researching Professor of Welfare and Social Sciences at Jönköping University in Sweden. She started a center for co-production that centers on healthcare personnel working with patients and co-producing better health outcomes. She is interested in research on adult development--how we interact when we are coming out of the dependent stage of childhood and moving into the self-authoring as we really come into our own and how that translates into how people think and act. This could be a useful tool for action research." 


Verna Delauer

Verna Delauer
Juniper Hill, New Hampshire, USA
Website

Verna writes... "I teach and conduct research at an undergraduate university in the northeastern United States. My courses and research focus on environmental and health decision-making. Using an adult developmental lens and primarily qualitative methods, I am interested in how young adults make meaning of lifestyle choices (related to sustainable and health behavior) and the varia-bles that are considered important for personal change. I love thinking about adult learning strategies in real-time. I also work with students in my research lab. We are working on a mul-ti-year study to understand the transition young adults experience when faced with more inde-pendence of and responsibility for their health decisions with a particular focus on sexual health and vaccinations.

At home, I live in an off-the-grid, solar-powered house on a piece of land named, Juniper Hill. Living in this way for 20 years is why I’m so interested in studying sustainable lifestyle choices. Choosing a way of life that is not status quo comes with its challenges. Real-estate value (strangely) decreases (a disincentive to be more sustainable), guests are given guidelines about their energy use which can be socially uncomfortable for the guests especially! When the inverter (changes DC energy to AC energy) malfunctions, it’s difficult to find someone who knows what to do. Yet in storms, when everyone on the street loses electricity, the lights at Juniper Hill are still on.

Home-life and work-life meet for me at the moment and my fascination with the environmen-tal, social, and personal implications of life choices becomes both personally and professional rich."