Transforming Self and Others through Research: Transpersonal Research Methods and Skills for the Human Sciences and Humanities (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

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. Transforming Self and Others Through Research......Page 5 Contents......Page 9 List of Tables......Page 11 List of Figures......Page 13 Acknowledgments......Page 15 Preface......Page 17 Introduction to Part 1. Transpersonal Research Methods......Page 23 1. Intuitive Inquiry: The Ways of the Heart in Human Science Research......Page 37 2. Integral Inquiry: The Principles and Practices of an Inclusive and Integrated Research Approach......Page 93 3. Organic Inquiry: Research in Partnership with Spirit......Page 153 Introduction to Part 2. Transpersonal Research Skills and thePreparedness of the Researcher......Page 183 4. Intention, Quietude and Slowing,Attention, and Mindfulness......Page 189 5. Visual, Auditory, Visceral,and Movement-related Senses......Page 221 6. Unconscious Processes,Direct Knowing, and Empathic Identification......Page 253 7. Play, Creative Arts,and Embodied Writing......Page 277 8. An Expanded View of Validity......Page 303 9. A Transformative Vision for Research and Scholarship......Page 325 References......Page 341 About the Coauthors and Contributor......Page 367 B......Page 371 D......Page 372 G......Page 373 I......Page 374 M......Page 375 P......Page 376 S......Page 377 V......Page 378 Z......Page 379 "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."-- Publisher description Rosemarie Anderson And William Braud. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 319-344) And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.