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  1. Dr. Julia Kukard

    MAR 10

    Dr. Julia Kukard

    Dr. Julia Kukard is based in So Africa and has over 30 years of experience in learning and development in organisations worldwide. She is trained as a coach, psychotherapist and facilitator and prefers to work within the Existential paradigm. Her doctoral research focused on leadership stuckness and how leaders can respond more fluidly and thoughtfully to the world. Out of this she transformed into an action researcher. Her coaching and facilitation work focuses on supporting the inner world of leaders to make better and more effective choices in and for their outer world. Her paper is included in the special issue on mindsets of transformation. A key take away for those of us who advance change: we may have to better embrace Change and transformation ourselves! The interview encourages action researchers to work with their own wounds to release more positive and collaborative dynamics. BLOG LINK: https://actionresearchplus.com/research-create-changes-as-your-inner-world-changes-by-julia-kukard/ https://www.jkukard.com/about This conversation was an interview between Hilary and Julia about Julia's paper "Shamefully Stuck to Joyfully Jammed: Reflexivity in Researching Stuckness" for a special issue on mindsets of transformation. Julia discussed how her personal experiences with racism and grief informed her research on transformation and stuckness, particularly focusing on how inner worlds influence research and the importance of addressing both structural and individual aspects of wounds. They explored Julia's approach to coaching leaders through transformation cycles, emphasizing the role of relationships and alchemical processes in personal and organizational change. The discussion highlighted how Julia's work bridges existential psychotherapy with action research, focusing on helping people become more emergent and resilient through examining their inner worlds and resources.

    48 min
  2. Interview with Tobi Fehr Bosshard On the U. St Gallen Transformations Lab

    JAN 8

    Interview with Tobi Fehr Bosshard On the U. St Gallen Transformations Lab

    This podcast shares the story of Tobias Fehr-Bosshard who helped found the U. St Gallen Transformations Lab in support of Swiss universities’ engagement with sustainability issues. Our conversation focuses on the importance of finding support and developmental friendship meet-ups (including at AR+); of sharing ownership with the many stakeholders in the action research – exercising and encouraging agency - through action learning. We also touched on his ROAR model, a conceptual model that emerged from the intersection of Ferrari et al.’s work and the constructivist pragmatism of action research. It is this model that allows Tobi to speak with more clarity as he encourages more universities to be doing similar sustainability upgrades. Dr. Tobias Fehr-Bosshard studied International Affairs and International Management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. After working for a business association and in consulting in Zurich for several years – both with a focus on sustainability –, he went back to the University of St. Gallen as a co-founder of the Competence Center for Social Innovation (CSI-HSG). At CSI Tobias co-lead a large multi-stakeholder social innovation process, the lab of tomorrow on circular food systems in Rwanda, in collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Nestlé and many other partners. His work required him to pursue his PhD, for which he chose to do action research. Finding a supportive advisor – ignoring the advice of conventional academics – he succeeded both in publishing his dissertation and with co-creating scaffolding for a sustainability transformation at the university and beyond, through work with the network of Swiss universities. The following link could also be valuable as it places Tobi’s work in the context of his PhD action research group (with Freek, Clémentine, Anna, Antonio, and Danny) and offers playbook to support people in developing their own micro-communities for impact / developmental friendship.: https://playbook.impact-scholar.community/

    45 min

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