Terah J. Stewart shows research does not have to be impersonal
In ARJ article “I don’t feel studied” – now open without pay wall – action researcher Terah J. Stewart shows that research does not have to be alienating or impersonal. In fact, it can be a healing and humanizing process for the people and communities centered in action research efforts. Terah explains his ART with […]
Read More...COP 26 visions and stories.
COP 26 just finished in Glasgow. Greta Thunberg – the face of young often female activists outside the conference – thought the men in suits inside the conference were underperforming. Still there’s no question that climate change is now firmly on the world’s political agenda. What is the world we imagine is […]
Read More...Care for the Carers: Proliferating Support Groups
Author, Merle Varik, introduces her newly published article in ARJ, entitled: Launching support groups for informal caregivers of people living with dementia within participatory action research. “In our context, in Estonia, there is only modest psycho-emotional support for caregivers of people with dementia. Indeed, there is a lack of awareness about the disease. The informal […]
Read More...Relational Meditation Series continues.
With the end of Summer came the end of the first ever Relational Meditation series at AR+. These were led by Ilaria DiStefano and Hilary Bradbury, aka. “the two Hilarys.” We met every Tuesday, for 9 weeks, as a group of people from different countries, with different meditation experiences, gathering to practice the art of […]
Read More...Back to the future of water. Cynthia Mitchell
A little afternoon reading…. When Cynthia (that is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Cynthia Mitchell, now a PerMem with AR+) stepped away from the marvelous U. Technology Sydney Institute for Sustainable Futures earlier this year, it was because she wanted to do more to bring forward the kinds of transformations we know we need. Her piece brings […]
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