Centre for Qualitative Research : Masterclasses 2009

Inquiry as Appreciating Wholeness: Research Worthy of Human Inspiration

Professor W Richard Cowling III, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. 6 & 7 July 2009

For 30 years Professor Cowling has been involved in developing and implementing unitary inquiry and practice strategies in response to the call for approaches that address the wholeness of human life.

In these masterclasses, he will draw upon storytelling and artistic expression as unitary praxis approaches for tapping hidden human potentials. He will share stories of women’s and nurses’ lives and his own story to illustrate unitary appreciative knowing. He will invite storytelling individually and collectively by participants in order to demonstrate the process of unitary appreciative inquiry.

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Some of the ideas that will be explored are:

• The differences in appreciative knowing and critical knowing
• The integration of appreciation and participation as the major strands of a unitary knowing perspective and process
• The role of inquiry in a praxis of healing that liberates human expression
• The ways in which storytelling uncovers wholeness beyond more traditional ways of gaining information about human experience
• The differences in unitary appreciative inquiry and other forms of qualitative research practice
• The place of artistic expression as a means of representing human wholeness in a program of inquiry
• The role of our story in listening to and appreciating the other’s story
• The perspective of interpretation in an appreciative participatory inquiry process

Schedule

Costs and booking information

The fee of £150.00 for this Masterclass includes two full days with the course facilitator, all refreshments and all class materials. Cheques should be made payable to Bournemouth University. Invoices can only be issued on receipt of a purchase order number. Please view the Centre for Qualitative Research Masterclasss 2009 Booking Form (PDF 30kb) for more information. Cancellations received up to six weeks before each masterclass will be refunded less an administration charge of 25%. No refunds can be processed after six weeks have elapsed. Places are limited and operate on a ’first come, first served’ basis.

• Inquiry as Appreciating Wholeness Brochure PDF (97kb)
• Centre for Qualitative Research Masterclass 2009 Booking Form (PDF 32kb)