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| ===== Hybrid Story-Ing, Ungenreable Engagements and Transdisciplinary Facilitation ===== | ===== Trickster, Transformation and Transdisciplinary Engagement ===== |
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| [This research is still in progress] | |
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| ==== Context ==== | ==== Context ==== |
| Environmental and social activists have for years attempted to re-educate humanity to be more responsible for their environment, and more kind to their fellow inhabitants on the planet. The problem with this work is that much of it is aimed at shifting behaviour level, it is not aimed at shifting mindset, epistemology or consciousness. And, the challenge at this point in time, is that most of humanity do not even know they have a mindset, let alone have the cognitive capacity to make their epistemology a source of study. | Environmental and social activists have for years attempted to re-educate humanity to be more responsible for their environment, and more kind to their fellow inhabitants on the planet. The problem with this work is that much of it is aimed at shifting behaviour level, it is not aimed at shifting mindset, epistemology or consciousness. And, the challenge at this point in time, is that most of humanity do not even know they have a mindset, let alone have the cognitive capacity to make their epistemology a source of study. |
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| So Foam, and gRig could be seen as subversive tricksters, formed to confound, confuse and ultimately destabilise consensus reality. The nature of their work is to connect the marginal and foster the surreal. To take it further, Foam’s notion that we can grow our own world(s) if fully grasped, has the potential to emancipate individuals and groups from a paradigm of apathy, fatalism and co-enabled victimhood. | So Foam, and gRig could be seen as subversive tricksters, formed to confound, confuse and ultimately destabilise consensus reality. The nature of their work is to connect the marginal and foster the surreal. To take it further, Foam’s notion that we can grow our own world(s) if fully grasped, has the potential to emancipate individuals and groups from a paradigm of apathy, fatalism and co-enabled victimhood. This report explores these areas, and attempts to set out an emancipatory framework for the work of gRig using ideas from transformational learning movement, and by examining the qualities of The Trickster. |
| ==== Aim ==== | ==== Aim ==== |
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| This research project is focussed around discovering **the most effective mechanisms we can use to become more conscious of, and change, our relationship to reality** | This research project is focussed around discovering **the most effective mechanisms we can use to become more conscious of, and change, our relationship to reality** |
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| It will connect a number of related disciplines. Transdisciplinary engagement and Hybrid Story-ing are the subject of particular investigation and experimental activity. | It also has some general aims which include: |
| | * providing user friendly material that is informative and inspirational to Foam, and to a wider audience that has not encountered these concepts before; |
| The **overall aims** for this process are: | * encouraging people to grow their own worlds by: writing my blog, facilitating workshops, creating mixed media installations, and discovering and disseminating stories and best practice; |
| | * facilitating integration of worlds through connecting people and organisations across boundaries in whatever forms feel appropriate to the context |
| - To provide user friendly material that is informative and inspirational to Foam, and to a wider audience that has not encountered these concepts before. | * supporting and promoting the work of Foam and gRig by increasing knowledge, fostering networks and inspiring their membership |
| - To encourage people to grow their own worlds by: writing my blog, facilitating workshops, creating mixed media installations, and discovering and disseminating stories and best practice. | |
| - To facilitate integration of worlds through connecting people and organisations across boundaries in whatever forms feel appropriate to the context. | |
| -To support and promote the work of Foam and gRig by increasing knowledge, fostering networks and inspiring their membership | |
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| ==== Method and Scope ==== | ==== Method and Scope ==== |
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| **The next section will summarise findings from all of these activities and discuss future implications and areas for further research** | **The next section will summarise findings from all of these activities and discuss future implications and areas for further research** |
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| ==== Discussion ==== | ==== Discussion ==== |
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| In examining the literature it is clear that transformation means different things to different people. In the sense I am using it, it is a full scale shift in ones consciousness, where ones relationship to reality itself is fundamentally different. Consciousness can be seen to be a state of mind, but also a way of perceiving the world and our place within it. If we perceive the world to be separate from us, and a place to that can be controlled, and predicted, this leads us to behave in different ways than if we believe ourselves to be part of a complex and continually emerging and evolving web of life. | In examining the literature it is clear that transformation means different things to different people. In the sense I am using it, it is a full scale shift in ones consciousness. A sh where ones relationship to reality itself is fundamentally different. Consciousness can be seen to be a state of mind, but also a way of perceiving the world and our place within it. If we perceive the world to be separate from us, and a place to that can be controlled, and predicted, this leads us to behave in different ways than if we believe ourselves to be part of a complex and continually emerging and evolving web of life. |
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| Developmental theorists all describe, in one form or another, transformations in consciousness and evolutionary development from simple to increasingly complex ways of seeing the world (Cranton:77). These movements are involve profound shifts in perspective. | Developmental theorists all describe, in one form or another, transformations in consciousness and evolutionary development from simple to increasingly complex ways of seeing the world (Cranton:77). These movements are involve profound shifts in perspective. |
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