In this second unit, students will revise and implement the research question, literature and methodologies developed in Introduction to Research Methods and approved by the Metavision Institute. Students’ research projects will be unique and autobiographical, fulfilling an opportunity to further their personal capacities as therapists.

Building on Introduction to Research Methods course in semester 1, students will develop their phenomenon and accompanying research question, and, through being open to the phenomenon, will shape their methodologies to engage with the phenomenon at hand, often drawing on transpersonal methods that are in keeping with and resonant with the Metavision Institute. Through data gathering and concomitant data analysis, they will follow their phenomenon according to their planned empirical research intentions, always allowing for abductive findings and the unexpected learning and insight that invariably accompanies post intentional phenomenological research.

Students will write a report on their inquiry into the phenomenon. They will include an outline of implications for their own and general counselling and psychotherapy practice. A significant component of this module will include an oral presentation of their findings where each student offers a felt sense of their unique journey and their developing understanding of research. The presentations will include peer review and the practice of appreciative inquiry with their peer presentations.