Practices For A Darkening Time: Some noble saints meet in a coLAB…
It’s darkening times for many of us, what with news of wars and images of trauma from Gaza/Lebanon, Ukraine and Sudan alongside word of a multilateral flailing at COP climate negotiations, Azerbaijan, an authoritarian petrostate. All this intersects with too little connection to local community alongside personal anxiety that makes us feel vulberable. The darkening, […]
Read More...learning to be activists with Kristen Goessling
Kristen Goessling just published a paper with ARJ that explores how to support youth activists in sharing power with “grown ups” in making things happen. Taking a feminist participatory action researching approach (FPAR), she recognizes transformative praxis as a political, relational, deeply felt and embodied experience that centers issues of power, participation, and relationality. This […]
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Action Research For a Trumpian Time
Shock – horror – incomprehension. Those were the words that came to me when asked how I was doing after the Trump volcanic/landslide election results. I also felt shock when seeing the recent images of floods in Spain too. Shock but not surprise. I want to be careful not to catastrophize. I read the election […]
Read More...Education for New Immigrant Workers and Tools to Develop Occupational Health and Safety
Canada based action researchers, Chen and colleagues, published their action research paper with ARJ on supporting immigrants to better health and safety. They explain: “Canada’s economy thrives on the hard work of immigrant workers, but they often face big challenges when it comes to staying safe and happy at work. Issues like language barriers, poor […]
Read More...AR+ 2025. Itself an ART project?
Hilary Bradbury-Carman, Ph.D., AR+ Founder and Curator. And then, on October 29th, it was my turn! For my first workshop on transformative spaces coLAB I chose to invite a conversation about AR+ Foundation itself. In what ways are we succeeding, and not, as an ART project? The actionable challenge would be to invite those present […]
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