{"id":2066,"date":"2012-08-30T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asc.wdtest.info\/en\/2012\/08\/30\/action-research-in-ann-arbor\/"},"modified":"2012-08-30T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T20:10:00","slug":"action-research-in-ann-arbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/action-research-in-ann-arbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Research In Ann Arbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; by Mark McAlister<\/p>\n<p>The Anthroposophical Society in America recently hosted two important events in Ann Arbor, Michigan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leadership Colloquium (8-9 August)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;That Good May Become&#8221; &#8211; a Conference for Members (9-12 August)&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthroposophy.org\/conference-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Conference website<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the past couple of weeks I have been wondering where to start.&nbsp; How can I characterize the richness &#8211; the bewilderment &#8211; of my Ann Arbor experience?&nbsp; Yesterday, some help arrived in the form of a quote from a book by Torin Finser:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;Action Research&#8217; is the way groups of people organize the conditions under which they can learn from their own experience.&#8221; <span style=\"font-size: small;\">(<\/span> David Hopkins, quoted by Torin Finser in <u>Research<\/u>, AWSNA 1995, pp 9-10).&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then it&nbsp; struck me: we all need to learn <u>together<\/u>.&nbsp; Rudolf Steiner did not prescribe (or proscribe!) the particular forms that the Anthroposophical Society would need to develop as the decades progressed.&nbsp; It&#8217;s up to us to ensure that the our work in the Society connects with real life, and contributes in tangible ways to social health.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Much will be written and posted in upcoming months about the Ann Arbor proceedings and follow-up initiatives, including contributions from Canadian members.&nbsp; This will help us to form a shared image of new forms and channels that are needed for our work.<\/p>\n<p>In the next article, I write about the current structure of the Society in North America and provide some context for our emerging dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; by Mark McAlister The Anthroposophical Society in America recently hosted two important events in Ann Arbor, Michigan: Leadership Colloquium (8-9 August) &#8220;That Good May Become&#8221; &#8211; a Conference for Members (9-12 August)&nbsp;Conference website For the past couple of weeks I have been wondering where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-members-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}