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27th December 2018 Inspired through Heuristic Research.

During my decades long odyssey into spirituality and more recently spiritual health, I have been living experiences involving encounters with Spiritual Health. Some encounters more profound for me personally than others.  During this odyssey I’ve come across many forms of how to ask questions. Some of them I’ve applied in practice to try and increase my knowledge and understanding of both spirituality and spiritual health. They have however, left me unsatisfied; feeling sold short, having to miss out key data and thinking due to the forms and limits of these methodologies. I had not been able to elicit fully spirituality and spiritual health. Tacitly, I knew and felt something or things of weight were being missed. To try and address my concerns here, I turned to Reflective Practice. And whilst investigating the diverse theories, methodologies and models of Reflective Practice, Heuristic Research once more surfaced into my vision:

“It refers to a process of internal search through which one discovers the nature and meaning of experience and develops methods and procedures for further investigation and analysis.” (C. Moustakas. 1990. p9).

Given this and the context I re-encountered it in, it seems the next stage of my adventure needs to take me into the territory of Heuristic Research; where Heuristic Research and Reflective Practice interact with one another.

17th November 2018 Reflections evolving on a way forward.

Yesterday, Judi Marshall’s (2016) First Person Action Research I highlighted as a way forward. This appears to be great for driving forward the early initiatives Inspire Spiritual Health needs. Yes. There is a ‘however’. However. From what I’ve read so far, it seems to miss out a golden opportunity of simultaneously taking forward the opportunities reflection can provide. Not wanting to miss this, I will keep a public online Reflective Journal on Inspire Spiritual Health. This is in the ‘Reflections’ section. There is a huge amount of work out there in Reflection, Reflection in/on Practice, Reflective Journals; and I feel like I’ve read it all! At this stage, I’m opting to apply the work of Barbara Bassot’s (2016) 2nd ed. of The Reflective Journal; a Palgrave publication.

16th November 2018 Back to the Books!

Or, rather. On to the Book! Having just started reading Judi Marshall’s work ‘First Person Action Research. Living Life as Inquiry’ published in 2016 by Sage Publications Ltd, we have many points of reference where our studies and interests have crossed over or aligned over the decades. Power, environmental sustainability, philosophy, action research, reflective practice, the role of academies in legitimising knowledge… …and the list just goes on and on!

Given Inspire Spiritual Health has Praxis (Practical Action of knowledge and skills) as a key driver, it really is exciting at this stage. The trepidation and uncertainties; the surprise present about to be unwrapped. The initial shape and feel of which holding out huge promises of potentials; to be what you really need, that you never realised you needed!

14th November 2018 Further Breakthroughs!

The News page is now conceived and starting to grow!

Furthermore, a process for a research aspect of Inspire Spiritual Health, has emerged! Initially, this involves Inspire Spiritual Health being the centre of attention for a First Person Action Research Inquiry, to be undertake by Miles Greenford (current site developer). This will be used to solve the first question: How can Inspire Spiritual Health be conceived and nourished in order to successfully grow in the very early stages of it’s life?

What’s learnt and shared here on Inspire Spiritual Health will be then used to establish and facilitate Action Learning Teams, who will be supported by one another through this method, to undertake their own initiatives using First Person Action Research Inquiries into their own initiatives of interest. This, further advancing both Inspire Spiritual Health and the broader field of Spiritual Health.

Following on from the establishment and successful completion of the Action Learning Teams, Participatory Action Research Communities will be set up, to share working on initiatives where there is multiple interest and enthusiasm to resolve them. This too, further advancing both Inspire Spiritual Health and the broader field of Spiritual Health.

Don’t you just Love those Eureka moments!

Today – This 12th November 2018 Inspiring Spiritual Health is now starting to emerge!

The first Home page content has today been completed. So too has the first framework for our Library page!