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<p>Dear academic-activists,</p>
<p>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".<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EE8IUQ2UND7EJ5MGFUTM/full?target=10.1080/02660830.2024.2427435">https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EE8IUQ2UND7EJ5MGFUTM/full?target=10.1080/02660830.2024.2427435</a><br>
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<p>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: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://madocollective.org/connecting/">https://madocollective.org/connecting/</a><br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>If you have an interest in these topics, and find the time to
read this article, any feedback would be deeply appreciated.<br>
Please direct your comments to my email address
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dorian@madocollective.org">dorian@madocollective.org</a>), and not to the whole list.<br>
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<p>All best,<br>
Dorian</p>
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