Podcast with Tomas Boatwright on documenting community transformation

In this Yes/And podcast, Hilary Bradbury interviews Dr. Tomas Boatwright.  Tomas is a passionate educator and social science researcher. Currently, he is faculty in the Student Development Department at Austin Community College, teaching frameworks for college success. In addition to teaching, Tomas’ research and scholarship is focused on intersectional analysis. His research agenda is concerned […]

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Let The Music Play Me – Reflections on Constructivist Adult Development coLAB Chopsticks to Titanic, Susanna Carman

At 21, I graduated with a degree in Geology, where I was introduced to “deep time,” a concept coined by author John McPhee to describe the millions of years revealed in Earth’s fossil and geomorphic layers. This initiation highlighted our brief, albeit significant, role as humans in life’s 4.5 billion year story of unfoldment.  The […]

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Accessible, common and powerful: Our developmentally highest selfs. Simon Divecha writes…

Throughout this year’s Action Research Plus coLAB,  Leadership as Developmental Friendship, we’ve continued exploring other ways of knowing and being. This is inspired by a core Action Research insight—when we investigate something it changes us as well as what we are investigating. A simple example is I love having my biases busted. One of these […]

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Getting Existential IS the creative path to life. Hilary Bradbury on developmentalist conversation

We’d convened for months. And then came our final Constructivist Adult Development coLAB session AKA From Chopsticks to Tchaikovsky: Developing repertoire for personal and systems resilience at a time of planetary crisis. What had we learned, what were the gifts, what’s next? For me it continued the inquiry into how to live in the midst […]

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Quality in sustaining action research. Yes/And with Marina Apgar

In this Yes/And interview Hilary Bradbury talks with fellow action researcher Dr. Marina Apgar about quality in action research. Marina works at the Institute for Development Studies at U. Sussex in UK and is also an associate editor at Action Research journal. In the interview we aim to bring alive the quality choicepoints for the […]

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