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Mindfulness, Integration, Creativity and Activism–New start in April
Our first MICA (Mindfulness, Integration, Creativity for Activists) co-lab started October 4th 2017. We have met weekly since. Closing this cohort at the end of March, we look to a new beginning in April. All are welcome to join. The new weekly mindfulness practice is Thursdays at 07.00 pacific/15.00 London. The new monthly MICA II […]
Read More...A Spanish brotherly hug
AR+ started as an English language community. From the start we have kept an extending hand to partners in Spanish and Chinese cultures. Our new co-lab,  Cocina Popular co-stewarded by Kamil Geronimo, has kicked off our efforts to translate and transplant the Cookbook into Spanish. It’s really as a pretext for cooking up new action research experiments […]
Read More...Action Researching at Boston College
Professor Paul Gray in conversation with Hilary Bradbury about a popular action research program for doctoral students. Paul Gray is a professor in the department of sociology at Boston College where he helped design a successful and popular program for action researching scholar practitioners. It started in the 1980’s. For many years Paul taught and […]
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Transforming how women and men and race intersect
Celebrating… the annual Women’s March and the momentum of the #MeToo movement, another cohort of our community of practice on “relational transformation” is coming to a close. Our co-lab RAIR community met over the past 6 months to practice together transforming relationship between women and men. We were all about that move from our cultural […]
Read More...Incremental transformation for poverty alleviation among rural women in Bangladesh
We discovered some key lessons for developmental practice through a transdisciplinary action-research project in with rural women in Bangladesh. We knew that short-term, linear, externally funded, project-based approaches to complex problems are often unsuccessful and so we had to take a different approach. What we found was that through our action research with Bangladeshi women […]
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