Donna Frost

Chapter 4 100 could be noted, observed and recorded in agreed upon ways between meetings, but the meetings themselves became in their turn experiences full of meaning that provided material for discussion, reflection and critique. The particular action or inquiry focus agreed upon during the group meeting did not always present itself or was perhaps inappropriate within the actual practice situations encountered between meetings, whereas an unexpected occurrence could provide a rich learning experience, relevant to the inquiry. Such an experience was only useful within the inquiry, however, if the inquirer-practitioner was able to notice it in the moment and record enough about the experience and their own response to it for it to become part of the inquiry process. Experience and reflection were present, then, in both practice situations and during group meetings. It is therefore more accurate to represent the CCCI inquiry cycle as the two halves, or loops, of a lemniscate (see Figure 4 . 4 ). The group experience and collaborative reflection are represented by the upper loop of the lemniscate and experience and reflection in practice are represented by the lower loop. The intersection of these two processes in the middle of the lemniscate is both the starting point of one inquiry loop and the ending of the other, creating a repeating CCCI cycle. The complete cycle formed an iterative figure-eight structure, both systematic and responsive. It allowed room for the complexity and serendipity of everyday practice and inquiry group activities. As well, it provided a framework within which a diversity of research methods could be used without losing track of the overarching process. Having such a framework was necessary as a wide variety of methods were employed to record, deconstruct and reconstruct relevant experiences and to enable co-construction of knowledge, as summarised in Table 4 . 1 including, in the legend, the ways the different forms of data were recorded. Methods are grouped in Table 4 . 1 as individual reflections, practice observations, creative expressions and various forms of dialogue such as interviews and reflective conversations. Additionally, the table shows which of the methods were employed by CCCI members inquiring alone, inquiring with a co-inquirer in a practice situation or during CCCI meetings.