Voice of the Editor: Reflecting on Yoland Wadsworth’s work

Part of the fun of being editor is that people send their books my way — and I usually send them to Bob Dick who offers a book review reflecting over many months’ worth of publications in the action research “space.” But I also take a peek (of course!)

And indeed Yoland Wadsworth has just sent me two papers that presaged her new magnum opus (to use Michael Quinn Patton’s term in the Foreword) — which is on its way by mail. She sent them to me just before the start of the world congress of action learning and action research being held this year in Australia (which includes her giving a keynote) …thanks Yoland!

I had not been aware of how much the typology of the Jungian Myers Briggs informs Yoland’s work in her ‘take’ on systemic inquiry processes – which she presents as ‘writ small’ in the human person. It seems quite timely to me that a more human-centered – which necessarily means individual-centered – approach come back to join ‘the social’ in the systems approach to systems change that informs the work of so many of us… thank you Yoland for spending so much mindspace on articulating this so well. And good luck with your keynote!

Hilary Bradbury-Huang, Editor ARJ
Portland, OR