Hilary Brad
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Hilary Brad
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Mindfulness and first person action research: Context matters
Ron Purser, who originally shared his provocative views on corporate mindfulness – enticingly titled “Corporate mindfulness is bullsh*t” – has now produced a new book. Catchy title too: McMindfulness. This is a provocative and important book if we care about self inquiry, especially the kind we practice around AR+ such as MICA which brings mindful […]
Read More...Action Research with Children: Reintegrating Heart and Mind.
I am just back from EECERA’s 25th anniversary which met in Barcelona. Over 1000 scholar-practitioners in the field of early learning met there for a week with tons of workshops and presentations. I was invited to offer a keynote about ActionResearchChildren_EECERA on contemporary action research, something I refer to more and more as “not your fathers’ action research.” […]
Read More...Ken Gergen on AR and Social Construction
My interview with Ken Gergen explores his journey from a conventional training as an experimental psychologist to the foremost articulator of the social construction paradigm. At the heart of Ken’s work lies a deeper question, namely what is the point of our research? What is worth doing? Listen in on the interview. Read More […]
Read More...AR and Social Construction
I first met Ken Gergen (click here for video) when I requested a piece for the first Handbook of Action Research (way back in 1998). Ken graciously said yes and introduced us to his spouse and writing partner, co-author and feminist thinker, Mary Gergen. In their writing for the Handbook, they explained the basics of […]
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Disaster resilience in a leaderless world
Our typically magnificent summer in the Northwest Pacific region is getting lost under a blanket of extreme heat. Friends driving up the coast from California tell of the smell of smoke from wild fires raging. But none of this is not as frightening as reading about the mother of all earthquakes that awaits us. A […]
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