Dusty Columbia Embury
Author Archives: Dusty Columbia Embury
Columbia Embury www.wright.edu
Dusty Columbia Embury
From Cocoon to Butterfly: Use of Cooperative Inquiry Groups to Empower Practitioners in Healthcare Contexts
Blogpost by Sarah Donnelly and Sarah Morton Consider the analogy of a butterfly inside its cocoon. When we see a butterfly struggling, we are tempted to peel the cocoon off to free the butterfly so that it can fly away. But what happens to a butterfly when it does not have the necessary struggle to free […]
Read More...
1
We are not third parties: Exploring conflict between action researchers and stakeholders as the engine of transformation
Blog post by Miren Larrea We face the common challenge of letting the next generations have a planet where they can live, and the Action Research Journal has decided to focus on transformations as the concept that can guide us through this endeavour. If you are grappling with your role in action research for transformations, […]
Read More...Encouraging Interiority in Business Action Research
A blog post by David Coghlan and Rami Shani As experienced action researchers in the organization development (OD), we have been reflecting about published action research in the field of business and management. We offer this article to the readers of Action Research as we think it is essential for those who are engaging in action research […]
Read More...Introducing the AR Special Issue: ART and Climate Transformation.
Introduction by Hilary Bradbury Action-oriented Research for Transformations (ART) is a social learning process in which participants learn with one another. Moreover, it is a societal learning process in which stakeholders in an issue get to realize that they make up the system and therefore have the power to remake that system together. Imagine the […]
Read More...You defend what you feel: ‘Presencing’ nature as ‘experiential knowing’
Click to watch Hilary Bradbury interview Gioel Gioacchino about her work. Newly minted PhD., Gioel Gioacchino, writes about a youth-led action research process carried out in Cuba. Their action research supported a network of youth to champion sustainability in a country that is simultaneously more “sustainable” in an ecological sense than most countries, but with […]
Read More...