[PeDAGoG] New article - Learning to ‘sit in the fire’: Staying with the discomfort of transformative learning

[Dorian Cavé]

Dear academic-activists,

I wanted to share with you my newly published peer-reviewed article, 
"Learning to ‘sit in the fire’: Staying with the discomfort of 
transformative learning".
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EE8IUQ2UND7EJ5MGFUTM/full?target=10.1080/02660830.2024.2427435

This article is based on my doctoral research, carried out following a 
participatory action research approach within two online activist 
networks. The aim was to explore forms of radical collective change that 
might emerge in such settings by means of social/informal learning 
processes, in order for these findings to be useful to social change 
agents in various contexts (mainly within Global North settings). You 
can read more about this PhD research, including summaries of my thesis 
chapters, here: https://madocollective.org/connecting/

In this text, I discuss the transformative learning that appears to have 
taken place in a social learning space / group that I was part of for 3 
years: the Deep Adaptation Forum's Diversity and Decolonizing Circle. In 
particular, I outline some of the factors that seem to have enabled us, 
as participants, to undergo important personal and collective changes, 
while staying with the discomfort of difficult conversations (esp. 
concerning anti-racism/decolonial practice, and conflict 
transformation). Some of us played an important role in making this 
happen, as "key enablers" of group learning - so this text also seeks to 
visibilise and honour the care work that helped to keep us going through 
the storms, and the wise and courageous women who played an essential 
role in this regard.

If you have an interest in these topics, and find the time to read this 
article, any feedback would be deeply appreciated.
Please direct your comments to my email address 
(dorian at madocollective.org), and not to the whole list.

All best,
Dorian
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