Putting Research Into Practice

Course Code

PRIP

Qualification

Certificate

Mode

Online only

Putting Research Into Practice

Inspiration, motivation, mentoring and supervision to support the development of your research project

Suitable for:

  • Alumni of 2-year Metavision Programs
  • People with previous research capacity
  • Those with an undergraduate degree

Limit of 20 participants.

Cost: $4550 (MI Staff $2275)
(Minimum of 12 participants required to go ahead)

Dates: April - October 2024

4 x Half Day Sessions via Zoom (Saturdays 9am - 12pm)

  • Session 1: April 20th
  • Session 2: June 15th
  • Session 3: August 10th
  • Session 4: October 5th

3 X Tutorials (90 minutes) 6:00 pm – 7.30pm

  • Tutorial 1: Monday 20thMay
  • Tutorial 2: Monday 8th July
  • Tutorial 3: Monday 16th September

Delivery: Online

Summary

This course will provide you with the opportunity to undertake, or to further, an area of engaged research under the guidance and mentorship of Dr Claire Jankelson. With Claire’s supervision, you will develop your own research project through the action of bringing careful consideration, direction and action to your goals and intentions. And through this program, we expect that you will make significant progress towards achieving your desired outcomes.

Claire will offer inspiration to fuel your learning and direction. Using poetry and prose; imagination and form; spirit and the structure of phenomenology, the approach you take will be direct and unafraid. This is an opportunity to courageously step into your imagination and unfold your process in ways that serve your direction. As the philosopher, Derrida, says: meaning will be considered ‘meaningful’ in relation to its context. And your context will be the most important point of reference for your progress.

This program will suit a range of needs. You may have completed your Psychotherapy Research course at Metavision and are considering a PhD; you may wish to get support in writing a book or undertaking another significant project; you may be beginning your practice and would like the support at carefully examining your particular approach and way of shaping your practice. Using a phenomenological approach invites each person to shape their inquiry and direction according to their unique needs.

This course considers the principles of adult learning: you will become the expert of the phenomenon you are researching for the goals you are wishing to achieve. The phenomenon at hand will be your beacon. You may wish to continue and deepen a subject already begun or you have the goal to inquire into something new. You will shape your research and your learning – we will provide the tools and inspiration.

We recommend the newly translated Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet: translated by Anita Barrow and Joanna Macey as providing a rich palette of instruction in inquiry skills. There are a range of readings offered. And other text and readings will be suggested as needed for your process.

This class will include:

  • 4 x work/study half days
  • 3 x 90 minute tutorials
  • 2 x individual 30 minute mentoring sessions with Claire*
  • Ongoing connection with small peer groups
  • Extra resources and readings as needed

*Reading and commenting on your work could take the place of a mentoring session or will be charged extra.

Each work/study day will be engaging processes directed towards each person finding their research topic (or question) and shaping their particular research direction. The day will include theoretical input and practical exercises geared towards learning what each person is needing.

Each live work/study session will include:

  • Practical learning about reflection, phenomenology and deep inquiry
  • Embodied learning including writing/meditation
  • Group reflection and feedback in dyads and triads
  • Poetic interludes - for inspiration and direction
  • Self-reflexion and collaborative practices

This class is for you if you are wanting to:

  • Shape a suitable pilot study towards Higher Degree Research
  • Write a book
  • Further your research project from the Metavision course
  • Develop your understanding of a topic relevant to your counselling practice
  • Develop a new creative project

Session 1:

The Encounter: Face to Face with your practice

Finding and shaping your question and phenomenon: Understand principles of practitioner research, phenomenology, professional practice. Use processes of deep inquiry to hone and shape your intentions and dreams for this Program.

Tutorial 1: Introduction to methodologies and methods: hermeneutic and humanistic

Session 2:

Methods and their application: Shaping the way forward. An introduction to the literature and range of inquiry methods.

Tutorial 2: Literature reviews – deepening an understanding of the needs and the possibilities in relation to your particular phenomenon and your desired outcomes.

Session 3:

Tracking Research and Practice. We examine the essential interrelationship between Research and Practice and turn to Aristotle to appreciate how direction is shaped through both praxis (the interrelationship of research/practice) and phronesis (the wisdom or the knowing that emanates from such practices).

Tutorial 3: Finding resonance: sense making and meaning making. Apply and appreciate the impact of readings on your process. Review your phenomenon with the intentions of coherence and getting closer to your phenomenon.

Session 4:

Presenting your findings and consolidating your learning.

Readings

Anderson R. and Braud W., 2011. Transforming Self and Others through research: Transpersonal research methods and skills for the human sciences and humanities. State University of New York Press, US.

Bortoft, Henri 2012. Taking Appearances Seriously: The Dynamic Way of Seeing in Goethe and European Thought. Floris Books, Great Britain.

Diamond, Julie and Spark Jones, Lee 2004. A Path Made by Walking: Process work in Practice. LaoTse Press, Oregon, US.

Galvin, Kathleen and Todres, L., 2013. Caring and Well-being: A lifeworld approach. Routledge, London.

Rilke, Rainer Maria 2021. Letters to a Young Poet. New translation and commentary by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, Shambhala Publications, Colorado US.

Gillespie, Sally 2020. Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining Our World and Ourselves. Routledge, New York.

Steven Segal and Claire Jankelson (editors) 2016. Face to Face with Practice: Existential forms of research for Management Inquiry. Ashgate Publ, New York.

Todres, L., 2007. Embodied enquiry : phenomenological touchstones for research, psychotherapy, and spirituality. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke UK.

Vagle, Mark 2018 Crafting Phenomenological Research. 2nd Edition Routledge, New York.

About Claire Jankelson, PhD

With a background in counselling and decades of teaching Qualitative Research to Counselling and Psychology students, Claire has supervised and mentored more than 15 PhD candidates over the past 2 decades. She has a passion for the value of research that emerges out of and that adds value to one’s life practices. Claire’s skills are in the design and creation of processes that develop the ability for critical self-reflection and imagination thereby building on and enhancing the practitioner’s capacities. In keeping with modern adult education ideas, she uses the generative qualities of respect and the validation of experience to develop a greater sense of engagement, professionalism and leadership within one’s learning and practice.

Course Faculty

Claire Jankelson

PhD - An Engagement with the Phenomenology of Leadership