Joan Walton:

Action research sounds somewhat like aiming for a goal, and steering (cybernetic/government) between extremes of Scylla and Charybdis?

Best,

MMKazanjian

On Thursday, September 2, 2021, 06:01:21 PM CDT, Joan Walton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


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An interesting comment, Gien.  I don't see much mention of action research in these kinds of discussions, but personally, I don't think we can move forward without the systematic, dynamically mutually informing relationship between theory and practice that is action research.   I have just submitted a major bid to the Templeton Foundation on 'guiding cultural evolution through participatory action research'.  Statistically, a very small chance of it being accepted, but the more I listen to intellectual discussions, the more I want to collaboratively explore - not just in words but in reflexive, evaluated actions - the implications for our intellectual ideas for how we live our lives on a daily basis.  

For those who are not familiar with action research, this is an extract from the bid :  "Participatory Action Research is a cyclical, collaborative form of inquiry, which involves researchers and participants working together to understand problematic situations, and to change them for the better.  It centres on developing dynamic, mutually informing relationships between theory, reflection and practice, in order to choose the most beneficial action.  A form of feedback is incorporated that allows participants to fine-tune their actions, and ensure they are on-course to achieve their aims, in ways that stay true to their values.  PAR has a long and well proven history, the origins of which can be traced back to the ideas of John Dewey, developed by Kurt Lewin in his creation of action research as a means of taking a systematic approach to democratic change within the community."

Gien, I would be interested to know more about your experience of action research, and why you indicated its significance at this point in time?

All best, 

Joan 


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John Varvaeke’s work on the meaning crisis will surface in relevance, integrated with ToK. Action research is where I see things headed...

On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 at 22:50, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Thanks, Gien.

 

You make a very important point. While I think it makes sense for us to track this and feel it at some level, it would be doubly tragic for individuals to project inevitable collapse and then emotionally collapse in their own local gardens as a function of that misplaced entanglement. We definitely need clarity and guidance and reflective adaptive framing to ensure that we relate to hyper-objects with appropriate vision and affectivity (i.e., our emotions are signals that then orient us…but we must be clear about what they are signaling and what we are orienting to).


As such, I appreciate your framing here.


Best,

Gregg

 

 

 

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Yes, it's been quite the story! I think it’s making people feel a little more helpless. This year has been a landmark year for extreme weather and more noticeable signs of tipping points, which is both good and bad. Bad, for obvious reasons but good because it’s getting decision makers to finally take climate change seriously. But bad again, because it may come to past as waking up to the reality a little bit late. 

 

Human beings are not very well equipped to interpret hyperobjects (Morton) like climate change as a threat. That has allowed political, business leaders and a large percentage of the general public to exercise cognitive biases to collectively ignore the pressing science of the last five decades.

 

Unfortunately, no "climate) news is good news. New discoveries of climate science are usually bad news because climate scientists are usually conservative by nature. the profesisonal pyschiatrists and pyschologists in this network will see increased caseloads for eco-counseling as most people are not good at terror management. As climate change's predicted impacts being to move from predictions into experienced reality, mortality salience is going to drive more depression, nihilism, addiction, fear, anger and violence as people try to find a way to cope with the existential threat of extinction, We are already seeing a new normality of chaos.

 

I'm doing my bit by working with other networks to develop a cybernetic system along the line of Doug Englebert's vision of Collective IQ:

 

 

for rapid whole system change and launching a call to action for builders to help build it at COP26. Working with knowledge architect Gyuri Lajos and a team rapidly coalescing around him to build a rapid system change platform for humanity:

 

 

At this time, it behooves all of us to find our leverage  points where we can each make the biggest difference, as the time window for action shrinks rapidly with each passing day.

 

On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 at 15:07, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Folks,

  People have probably seen this, but if not, it is good to at least be aware of. It is one of the more trouble environmental signals I have seen in a while (and there have been no shortage of such signals lately)…

 

https://charliestephen6.medium.com/scientists-fear-that-the-gulf-stream-may-soon-collapse-d5bc7c9fabaa

 

Best,
Gregg

 

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