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An immersive, arts-based journey into listening, embodiment and dialogue with the more-than-human world. Where researchers become rivers, stones, insect and breezes — and discover what qualitative research can learn from them 1KU Leuven, Belgium; 2Zinspeling, Belgium; 3Gaiashift, Belgium Recent developments in qualitative research invite us to move beyond anthropocentric inquiry toward practices of listening and responding to the more-than-human world. Building on phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty), dialogical philosophy (Buber), systems thinking (Capra), appreciative inquiry (Cooperrider), humble inquiry (Schein), the recognition of sensing, feeling, thinking and intuition as equally valid and complementary ways of knowing (Goethe, Harding, Jung) and deep ecology methodologies (Macy, Seed), this workshop offers an experiential approach to qualitative research with non-human agencies. Participants will explore a sequenced process that combines immersion, embodiment and dialogue. The participants will attune to a natural element (plant, stone, insect, breeze…) and practice “imaginative inhabitation” with that element for a time. They will then engage in appreciative ecosystemic dialogues, listening to what emerges when humans give voice to the more-than-human perspectives. The workshop culminates in co-created artworks or performances weaving together these voices, followed by a joint reflection on the ethical, epistemological and methodological implications for qualitative research. Rather than merely discussing on the more-than-human perspective, this session enacts a form of “radical listening” and “dialogical phenomenology,” expanding the methodological repertoire of qualitative inquiry. Participants will leave with concrete practices for incorporating arts-based, phenomenological and ecological sensibilities into their research design, fieldwork and analysis. Limited to 16 participants; outdoors (if possible with local circumstances). References: Buber, M. (1984). I and thou. Clark. Capra, F. (2014). The Systems view of Life. Cambridge University Press Grieten, S., Lambrechts, F., Bouwen, R., Huybrechts, J., Fry, R., & Cooperrider, D. (2017). Inquiring into Appreciative Inquiry: a conversation with David Cooperrider and Ronald Fry. Journal of Management Inquiry, 27(1), 101-114. Harding, S. (2009). Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia. Green Books. Jung, C. G. (1973). On the nature of the psyche. Princeton university press. Macy, J. & Young Brown, M. (1998). Coming back to life: practices to reconnect our lives, our world. New Society Publishers Merleau-Ponty, M. (2013). The Phenomenology of Perception. Routledge Schein, E. (2013). Humble Inquiry: the Gentle Art of Asking instead of Telling. Berrett-Koehler Publishers Seed, J., Macy, J., Fleming, P. & Naess, A. (2007). Thinking like a mountain. Towards a council of all beings. New Society Publishers Wahl, D. C. (2005). “Zarte Empirie”: Goethean Science as a Way of Knowing. Janus Head, 8(1), 58–76. | ||
