Planning and conducting a major piece of research is a daunting
task, especially if you have never considered yourself a researcher. But your degree depends on getting through this
process. A lot is riding on it!
You've found your way to this website most likely because
you are thinking about using a qualitive approach, and you've heard about the Organic Inquiry methodology. You've probably
had some difficulty finding a lot of information about how to design a study with such unique criteria.
I know how you're feeling!
When I was engaged in my doctoral work, there were only three
pieces of source material -- the two difficult to locate Clements / Clements et. al. books, and a chapter in a Braud and Anderson
book -- and none of that provided me with the step-by-step guidance I desperately needed.
So being blessed with a naturally sequential thought
process, I developed the clear guidelines for doing an Organic Inquiry to help myself keep on track while traveling the
liminal realms, as the methodology requires. That chapter of my dissertation has become the internationally best selling
book used by students and faculty looking for a rigorous yet unique, explorative, qualitative reserach methodology.
Liminal, by the way, for those who aren't familiar
with this word, means at the threshhold, or in the in-between. A liminal domain is a place between
worlds or paradigms.
Organic Inquiry is an approach to developing knowledge and
understanding that operates between spirit and intellect, between wide-eyed idealism and grounded practical reality,
between conventional wisdom and innovative, visionary manifesting.
Whether you are seeking
additional information, brief
consult, or
expert guidance on your
Organic journey,
I'd love to hear about your research.
