The central challenge of ART workshopping: Only connect!
Our second workshop – within the ARTist workshopping series – formed around Ruth. We listened as Ruth explained her brief** for upcoming work with actors in the financial world. Her intention is to support them in embracing a regenerative action oriented approach in their day to day. She plans to start with a […]
Read More...Organizing Regeneration: 7 creative ways to start action researching for transformations
There’s a group of AR+ members who design and facilitate transformative learning spaces in support of regenerative organizing and leadership for sustainability. We also convene in a shared workshop setting to help one another do more effective, more transformative action research. Our intention in getting together once a month is to learn from what we’re […]
Read More...Tender Authority – Our Development Edge Session for the AR+E(co)Retreat
Victor Friedman, Michal Razer and Gili Talmor David share their work on “tender authority” which has emerged from 30 years of action research with schools. This work in helping teachers work more effectively with their most difficult students is described in their book Exclusion to Excellence: Building Restorative Relationships to Create Inclusive Schools They explain: […]
Read More...PAR social change in Santiago, Chile. Welcome to Dr. Lake Sagaris.
Dr. Lake Sagaris co-leads a social change lab in Santiago Chile – Laboratorio de Cambio Social, cambiarnos.cl. PAR – Participative Action Research – is at the heart of their work to build collaboration between university and urban community. The lab’s action research projects emphasize civic culture, mobility and sustainable urban development. Recently Lake’s lab joined our AR+ community as a stewarding organization. We share a recent […]
Read More...International Development, Aid and Social Transformation: ARJ Special
In this couple of videologues we introduce the new special issue of ARJ on International Development, Aid and Social Transformation. Guest Editors Kent Glenzer and Alfredo Ortiz did all the hard work of pulling it together and in addition to five lead papers, they also pull in practitioners’ responses on each of the articles. I […]
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