3 papers in the library · 1 citation · publishing 2022-2024
July 8, 2024 Olga R. Sohmer
This chapter presents the Cooperative Inquiry (CI; Heron 1996) research approach in the context of spirituality and contemplative studies. CI is an experiential and participatory approach to research, learning, and psychospiritual growth (Sohmer 2020a, 2020b; Heron and Sohmer 2019). Founded by John Heron (1996) and elaborated with Peter Reason (Heron and Reason 1997, 2006), CI is a radically...
July 8, 2024 Olga R. Sohmer, Jorge N. Ferrer
The main purpose of this chapter is to introduce Embodied Spiritual Inquiry (ESI) as a novel participatory research method in the context of spiritual and contemplative studies. ESI applies Albareda and Romero's interactive embodied meditations (Ferrer 2003) in the context of a participatory research paradigm inspired by Cooperative Inquiry (CI; Heron 1996) in order to access multiple human...
March 18, 2022 Olga R. Sohmer, R. C. Bauman, Jorge N. Ferrer 1 citation
Embodied spiritual inquiry (ESI) is a radical approach to integral and transpersonal education and research offered as a graduate course at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Inspired by elements of participatory research and cooperative inquiry, ESI applies interactive embodied meditations to access multiple ways of knowing (e.g., somatic, vital, emotional, mental,...