Full Description
Brings the transformative approaches of transpersonal psychology to research in the human sciences and humanities.
Research approaches in the field of transpersonal psychology can be transformative for researchers, participants, and the audience of a project. This book offers these transformative approaches to those conducting research across the human sciences and the humanities. Rosemarie Anderson and William Braud first described such methods in Transpersonal Research Methods for the Social Sciences (1998). Since that time, in hundreds of empirical studies, these methods have been tested and integrated with qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method research designs. Anderson and Braud, writing with a contribution from Jennifer Clements, invite scholars to bring multiple ways of knowing and personal resources to their scholarship. While emphasizing established research conventions for rigor, Anderson and Braud encourage researchers to plumb the depths of intuition, imagination, play, mindfulness, compassion, creativity, and embodied writing as research skills. Experiential exercises to help readers develop these skills are provided.
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction to Part 1: Transpersonal Research Methods
1. Intuitive Inquiry: The Ways of the Heart in Human Science Research
Rosemarie Anderson
2. Integral Inquiry: The Principles and Practices of an Inclusive and Integrated Research Approach
William Braud
3. Organic Inquiry: Research in Partnership With Spirit
Jennifer Clements (Invited Contributor)
Introduction to Part 2: Transpersonal Research Skills and the Preparedness of the Researcher
4. Intention, Quietude and Slowing, Attention, and Mindfulness
5. Visual, Auditory, Visceral, and Movement-related Senses
6. Unconscious Processes, Direct Knowing, and Empathic Identification
7. Play, Creative Arts, and Embodied Writing
8. An Expanded View of Validity
9. A Transformative Vision for Research and Scholarship
References
About the Coauthors and Contributor
Index
