Dialogue on Relational Research

This is the first workshop of a two-part series focusing on research from a relational and constructionist perspective. A focus on research as relational highlights the generative capacities of research, through a commitment to contributing to different futures and maximizing collective innovation. This lens assumes that the processes that generate knowledge are founded upon collaboration. It also stresses the importance of participants contributing with their abilities, knowledge, interests, experiences, and stories in order to co-create new findings and practices that enrich the daily lives of people. This stance alters the researcher-as-expert position and turns all participants into collaborators that share their experience, operating as co-designers and co-participants. Topic One (60-90 minutes): How can relational research generate new possibilities in the lives of people, organizations, and communities and contribute to world transformation? This workshop will enable a space so that participants may share ideas, experiences, and transformational possibilities in research, when used as an instrument for people, organizations, and communities to construct and re-construct social practices and knowledge