16th Oct 2014: Exploring the Dream of the Earth; My First Person Inquiry by Helena Kettleborough
Come along to The Castle Hotel at 7pm to listen to Helena’s talk. Share a crust of bread, and hear the reflections she has to share…
Title of talk:
Exploring the Dream of the Earth (Berry, 1988) – a first person inquiry of discovery and understanding
by Helena Kettleborough
Bullet points of what you would like to talk about:
- Part of a three decade journey expressed in last five years through a PhD.
- Share one part of the PhD – living, reflecting, learning, glimpsing the Dream of the Earth
- Setting context: challenges facing humanity and the planet and the solutions – references to evidence in the literature/media
- Exploring tools for travel – arguing we need tools and equipment as part of the journey
- Tools I’ve explored: action research
- Paradigms and paradigm shifts as part of action research
- characteristics of action research
- First person action research as methodology
- Glimpsing the Dream of the Earth (Berry, 1988)
- Explorations from Thomas Berry, cultural historian
- Using extended ways of knowing (Heron, 1996) from action research, to explore journey and questions of validity
- Some stories of how I came to understand the Dream of the Earth