{"id":16341,"date":"2023-05-09T11:54:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/?p=16341"},"modified":"2023-05-09T12:08:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T12:08:03","slug":"entangled-life-insights-from-amicables-colab-for-action-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/entangled-life-insights-from-amicables-colab-for-action-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Entangled Life: Insights from Amicables coLAB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Blog by <a href=\"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/ar-personal-members\/\">Susanne Pratt, Ruth F\u00f6rster and Alastair Wyllie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Within the <a href=\"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/amicable-colab-2023\/\">AR+ Amicables coLAB<\/a> we draw on provocative books, music, films, photograph, poetry, art to inspire our action research for transformation.<\/p>\n<p>We have two key intentions \u2013 1. \u201c<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Being inspired by each other<\/span>\u201d in which we share what speaks to each of us, personally and profoundly, in our learning and sense-making about the creative artefact we\u2019ve engaged with. 2. \u00a0\u201cI<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">nspiring Ourselves<\/span>\u201d in which we reflect and talk about the implications for our practice and ourselves as practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>Our hope is, that together, in noticing our own experiences, we intend to offer ourselves learning that is at the creative and developmental edge and stretch of our ARTistry &#8211; our action research for transformation.<\/p>\n<p>For the first Amicables Co-Lab session of 2023 we focused on the notion of\u00a0\u201c<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">entangled life<\/span>,\u201d inspired by fungi \/ mycelium. We invited people to explore both:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Merlin Sheldrake: Intro to book \u201cEntangled Life\u201d:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merlinsheldrake.com\/audiobook\">https:\/\/www.merlinsheldrake.com\/audiobook<\/a>\u00a0[14min]<\/li>\n<li>The Inner Lives of Fungi\u201d Life Worlds Podcast &#8211; Interview with Giuliana Furci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeworld.earth\/episodes-blog\/fungigiulianafurci%20%5b57\">https:\/\/www.lifeworld.earth\/episodes-blog\/fungigiulianafurci\u00a0<\/a>[57 min]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We experimented with using the online whiteboarding tool Miro &#8211; see image below &#8211; to capture our reflections, individually before the session and then during the session. Taking inspiration from mushroom circles, the miro board was designed as a large mushroom ring, flourishing with images of mushrooms. Participants selected zones in the outer ring to reflect individually responding to the above creative artefacts with prompts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What has been stimulated and provoked for you from the &#8220;entangled life&#8221; listenings? What speaks to you?<\/p>\n<p>What are the implications for your practice and ARTistry (action research for transformation)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In starting the session, we invited people to meditate on the fungi inside themselves, connect with this, and then imagine the mycelium webs between them and the other participants in the zoom space, thinking of those webs connecting us across country and entangling with the virtual. Our conversations then moved to the ineffable &#8220;awe&#8221; that these fungi, as interface between life and non-life, inspire. This provoked questions around transition and transformation, through a focus on mushrooms\u2019 embodied actions.<\/p>\n<p>During the session, our dialogue \/ conversations on the two phases of the session \u201cbeing inspired by each other\u201d and \u201cinspiring ourselves\u201d was captured on miro as part of the entangled mycelium web at the centre of the mushroom circle.\u00a0The connections made in the web spoke\u00a0to our dialogic entanglements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our conversations meandered with mushrooms. Some of the questions\u00a0our\u00a0conversation inspired and gravitated around were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is interspecies communication?\u00a0How do we listen deeply and be called to find them? what is calling me in transformative learning processes to engage? what \/ who is calling me and how am i training my sense to not miss the call?<\/li>\n<li>A new respect for my yoghurt. Can i resonate with what seems to be happening when I make my own yoghurt?<\/li>\n<li>how do we tune into the rhizome growing mode \u2013 how do we tune into being in one\u2019s biological function and the different forms of sensing this enacts?<\/li>\n<li>how do we allow composting its space? How do we work in ways that are a little more attuned to composting?<\/li>\n<li>In composting &#8211; where is it important to have things preserved and where do things need to rot? [which mindsets have to rot?]<\/li>\n<li>are we like fungi the catalysers for transformation?<\/li>\n<li>what is intelligence? what is mind? what is body-mind?<\/li>\n<li>researching and consuming in different ways, consuming ones research and the different senses this entails and opens.<\/li>\n<li>What does this mean for research more broadly?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The second phase of our\u00a0discussion\u2014reflecting on the impacts\u00a0for our action research practice\u2014the conversation moved to\u00a0exploring\u00a0ways of understanding and measuring a groups transformational edge, their learning, and different forms of leadership. This moved us to ask what mycelium can offer, how can they irritate a system, how do mycellium do it? The sense of swarms and transition patterns emerged, drawing on one participant&#8217;s research on creative leadership and swarms. How within swarms there are limited number of transition patterns, in how an individual is relating to a group, for example, always follow bird on the right side or allows orientate to the fish in front of you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We asked, what is the rule (conscious \/ unconscious) that I am following in this conversation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The art of improvisation extended this discussion of transformational leadership and swarm intelligence. Some rules of improvisation that resonated included:<\/p>\n<p>1. set intention, but not outcome,<\/p>\n<p>2. set up actions for activity,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3. stay connected with self but open to what emerges. Which is also about sensing the field. This is an awareness of self, other and holding space for emergence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>We pondered how do we create cultures in which people can rise to higher group level?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fungi and mycelium networks invited us to reflect on\u00a0the\u00a0ways one\u00a0breaks new fields of research with full sensing. Which also surprisingly and delightfully became a conversation about rotting and resonance, and reframing flows of energy.\u00a0To close\u00a0our reflection circle, we also reflected on working with\u00a0Miro, of having the images and visuals of mushrooms there as active agents as part of our conversation. For one member this brought up a sense of \u201cbeauty, truth and goodness\u201d and a gratitude for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to where Amicables takes us next. Reach out if you\u2019d like to join. details and registration here: https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/amicable-colab-2023\/<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Miro board designed by Susanne Pratt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-1024x701.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-1024x701.png 1024w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-150x103.png 150w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-768x526.png 768w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-1536x1052.png 1536w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-2048x1402.png 2048w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-610x418.png 610w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-65x45.png 65w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-220x151.png 220w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-146x100.png 146w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-358x245.png 358w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-584x400.png 584w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-657x450.png 657w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-745x510.png 745w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-600x411.png 600w, https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Miro-2-100x68.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog by Susanne Pratt, Ruth F\u00f6rster and Alastair Wyllie Within the AR+ Amicables coLAB we draw on provocative books, music, films, photograph, poetry, art to inspire our action research for transformation. 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