RESEARCH AND TRAINING - THE INTERPERSONAL
As a writer and independent researcher, I engage with artists, academics and practitioners across disciplinary boundaries, to investigate relational processes, with a perspective that moves between between arts and sciences, theory and practice.
The Interpersonal is where I locate these individual, collaborative and interdisciplinary experimental research and training practices. It is an evolving relational inquiry and practice space where a series of ongoing investigations into being-in-relation are taking place, and more are in planning.
The Interpersonal is transdisciplinary in nature, and is inquiring into the fundamentals of human relationships and communication, using (but not limited to) theories and practices that are:
Forming an understanding of how learning is (or isn't) taking place through subjective processes of human responsiveness, to others and the world around us, allows us to make sense of our experiences, and of how our own sense-making operates in different contexts. This helps us to better recognise our inter-connections (responses to, and impacts upon), with contemporary events and environments, from our digital relating to our political positioning.
The antidote to approaches that privilege independent action in isolation, The Interpersonal's focus on how we live, work and grow with others offers enlivening pathways toward greater clarity about how we are, and could be, acting upon one another and the world around us, through largely playful, sometimes challenging, exploratory practices, making unconscious aspects of the relational process available for thought and reflection.
For enquiries and to get involved, feel free to contact me.
RESEARCH INQUIRIES IN PROGRESS
More information on current collaborations coming soon.
WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING
Together with other collaborators, I will soon be offering workshop-style training for psychotherapists, creative-arts practitioners, educators and professional teams and organisations. Participants are invited into real-time exploratory creative-relational practices, the conditions of which facilitate the potential for insight and development. Workshops use recent and ongoing research (my own and other people's) as jumping off points for experiential and creative exploration of contemporary themes, and are themselves forms of ongoing inquiry; there may be opportunity where desired to actively collaborate in producing published research.
Interpersonal processes happen in shared moments over time, and need time and space to grow and become meaningful. Pre-defined skillsets or toolkits matter less than experiences of being in creative-relation over time, so that a rhythm of relation can become established, and the serious business of playful speculation with others can emerge. With this in mind, workshops are in development as a series, so that participants can engage over the course of a year or more, and integrate interpersonal ways of being and seeing into their wider lives.
More information to follow soon.
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