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 ==== Method and Scope ==== ==== Method and Scope ====
  
-Given we are dealing with the topic of reality construction, it would seem incongruous, and jarringly ironic, to use a positivist research approach.  Therefore the the underlying epistemology constructivist with an inductive research approach.  +The the underlying epistemology is constructivist with an inductive research approach.  
  
 Practically, this means that the questions set out earlier will be the connecting point for ideas, musings, and meetings that eventually will be made sense of retrospectively, with a deep sense of reflexivity. Practically, this means that the questions set out earlier will be the connecting point for ideas, musings, and meetings that eventually will be made sense of retrospectively, with a deep sense of reflexivity.
  
-Material will be gathered through+Material has been gathered through
  
   * Interviews and Connections   * Interviews and Connections
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   * Ethnographic encounters and Anthropological Immersion   * Ethnographic encounters and Anthropological Immersion
   * Reflective blogging and Existential Story-ing   * Reflective blogging and Existential Story-ing
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-and other methods that will be discovered. 
 ==== Results ==== ==== Results ====
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 +=== The Blog ===
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 Over the past year a large volume of material has been collected through excursions, reading, interviews, observations, experiments,listening, perusing, participating, scanning and engaging.  Over the past year a large volume of material has been collected through excursions, reading, interviews, observations, experiments,listening, perusing, participating, scanning and engaging. 
  
-This has been recorded in a **blog**  http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/ started specifically for this research project. +This has been recorded in a **blog**    http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/ and also used to feed this wiki.  
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 +The focus of my experiments and blog based research has been methods and tools that facilitate shifts in reality, particularly those that disturb and confuse underlying perceptions of reality and/or that expand the confines or existing perceptions of reality.  
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 +The methods I found fall into a wide range of artefacts and experience that are interrelated and deeply connected with the spirit of the Trickster which will be discussed in more depth later...  
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 +o hybrids that evade categorisation by existing mental models  
 +o activities that blur the dichotomies of right and wrong, true and false, real and unreal  
 +o processes that reveal hidden or obvious truths 
 +o mediums that stimulate multiple senses simultaneously or by- pass well used senses and engage different parts of the brain that are not normally in play 
 +o experiences that push the boundaries of consensus reality by inviting us to question whether something is real, exists, is happening. 
 +o experiences that allow us to grow our own reality 
 +o collaborations that create portals between different rhealms ( spiritual, physical, digital, imaginal, magical) and cultures.
  
- **Reality creating, blurring and bridging activities investigations and recordings that are contained in its archives include material on:**+Using these all the methods and tools that I studied were several which could be seen to cross over and fall into multiple categories, or were particularly effective examples of practice in a particular area they are:
    
   * **sensorial labyrinths**    * **sensorial labyrinths** 
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 http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/09/this-is-what-i-am-talking-about.html  http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/09/this-is-what-i-am-talking-about.html 
  
-http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/gameland.html (participated in Blast Theories latest game/installation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil)+http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/gameland.html (participated in Blast Theories latest game in Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
  
   * **hybrids**   * **hybrids**
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 http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/09/growing-buildings.html (hybrid architecture) http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/09/growing-buildings.html (hybrid architecture)
  
-http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/tourist-in-my-own-land.html (eg.Krystle Tuvai's urban hybrid story-ing/Born Again Graffitist etc)+http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/tourist-in-my-own-land.html (Krystle Tuvai's urban hybrid story-ing plus others)
  
 http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/10/expo-of-un-popular-culture.html (item on Greg Broadmore and Weta Studios) http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/10/expo-of-un-popular-culture.html (item on Greg Broadmore and Weta Studios)
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-**as well as a number of other explorations,expeditions and musings that are tangentially related to this report:**+ 
 +//**as well as a number of other explorations,expeditions and musings that are tangentially related to this report**// 
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 http://lib.fo.am/awhi_world http://lib.fo.am/awhi_world
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-     +=== Literature Review === 
 + 
 +Material was also collected through through reviewing literature from the transformational learning field, from management deveopment, from anthropological books and from fictional novels. These are listed in the references section. 
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 +=== The next section will summarise findings from all of these activities and discuss future implications and areas for further research ===
  
 ==== Discussion ==== ==== Discussion ====
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 ==== References ==== ==== References ====
  
-  * Darwin, J, Johnson, P and McAuley, J (2002). Developing strategies for Change. Prentice Hall. P: 16 +  * Darwin, J., Johnson,P. and McAuley, J (2002). Developing strategies for Change. Prentice Hall 
-  * Cooperrider, D. L., Barrett, F., Srivastva, S. (1995). Social Construction and Appreciative Inquiry: A Journey in Organizational Theory. Management and Organization: Relational Alternatives to Individualism. Ashgate.  +  * Cooperrider, D. L., Barrett, F. and Srivastva, S. (1995). Social Construction and Appreciative Inquiry: A Journey in Organizational Theory. Management and Organization: Relational Alternatives to Individualism, Ashgate  
-  *  Kegan, R. (1982) The Evolving Self. Harvard University Press.+  *  Kegan, R. (1982) The Evolving Self, Harvard University Press.
   *  Kegan, R. (1994) In Over Our Heads – The Mental Demands of Modern Life, Harvard University Press.   *  Kegan, R. (1994) In Over Our Heads – The Mental Demands of Modern Life, Harvard University Press.
 +  * Hyde, L. (1998) Trickster Makes This World - Mischief, Myth and Art, North Point Press
 +  * Schlitz, M.M., Vieten,C. and Amorok, T (2007) Living Deeply The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life, New Harbinger Publications and Noetic Books
 +  * Cranton, P. (2006) Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning - A Guide for Educators and Adults, John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2nd Edition
 +  * Mezirow, J. (2000) Learning as Transformation - Critical Perspectives on a Theory in Progress, Jossey-Bass
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