METHODOLOGIES FOR MUTUAL LEARNING
Through this research, we share some of the methodological learnings and processes that have proven to be personally and collectively transformative. Drawing from our own disciplinary and community practices, we co-created a number of intersectional, collaborative, iterative, and emergent methodologies. These methodologies have not only become the bridges and pathways for our collective work, we believe they could be useful as we reimagine movement cultures in ways that affirm more members of our diverse communities.
Artistic Rendering
This artistic rendering is a customized painting that represents the methods used and people involved in this research. It is a painting of a garden. The ground traced in a soil line of dark brown, swirling root tendrils reaching beneath. Above, green stems reach and sometimes bow with full and heavy flower heads. Tulip-like bright pink flowers with teal insets, blue multi-petalled flowers with pink circles, fern-like teal tendrils with red dots, and constellation-like red burst flowers with teal moon centers. Each flower unique, but with colors and shapes echoed in others. A morning sun, bright yellow, red, and white, peaks out from behind.
The painting was created by Rachel Mishenene. Rachel is an Anishinaabe-kwe, with mix of French heritage. She is blood born to Mishkeegogamang First Nation and was adopted, as a child, by the Waboose and O’Keese family of Eabametoong First Nation, of which she is a member.
The painting was created by Rachel Mishenene. Rachel is an Anishinaabe-kwe, with mix of French heritage. She is blood born to Mishkeegogamang First Nation and was adopted, as a child, by the Waboose and O’Keese family of Eabametoong First Nation, of which she is a member.
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Paper Citation: Peers, D., Joseph, J., McGuire-Adams, T., Eales, L., Fawaz, N. V., Chen, C., ... & Kingsley, B. (2023). We become gardens: Intersectional methodologies for mutual flourishing. Leisure/Loisir, 47(1), 27-47.
Paper Citation: Peers, D., Joseph, J., McGuire-Adams, T., Eales, L., Fawaz, N. V., Chen, C., ... & Kingsley, B. (2023). We become gardens: Intersectional methodologies for mutual flourishing. Leisure/Loisir, 47(1), 27-47.
Practices for Mutual Flourishing
Here are a handful of the practices that we have adopted or developed that have served to support the specific needs of our collective in creating research and movement culture spaces:
- Physical accessibility for wheelchair users.
- Comfortable furniture and beds that can support large and bony bodies.
- Blankets and heaters/fire place.
- Stim stuff: paper, crayons, fidget and sensory toys.
- Keeping all sessions to a Maximum of 3-hours (with a break halfway through). Maximum of 2 sessions per day.
- Official sessions start after 9 am and end before 5 pm (in all participating time zones).
- Snacks (especially tea and popcorn) always available and encouraged.
- Transparent, consensual meal preparation and ingredients.
- Not centring alcohol as socialization, not barring it either.
- Reduce cussing.
- Correcting pronoun usage (ideally by others than the one mis-gendered).
- Predetermined processes for establishing active consent/dissent.
- Enabling call-ins.
- Making space for any tensions or hardships we may be experiencing because of the deep, and often emotive, conversations.
This research was supported by the Government of Canada's New Frontiers Fund.
