Donna Frost

Chapter 5 166 Although turning to the literature is sometimes helpful, in the times of turbulance referred to here my struggle was usually concerned with being able to take action in a particular area, being able to write or to experience authentic engagement with self. It was therefore more helpful to engage my artistic, bodily and spiritual ways of knowing alongside the cognitive. Although I had embodied such strategies during the inquiry process in my role as facilitator, and learnt, after tripping and getting tangled again during synthesis of the data to do the same with respect to critical and creative analysis of a large body of data, it is a struggle I faced anew when focusing on writing the thesis. Being able to follow a principled and well grounded process and being guided by experienced facilitators, my supervisors, were key aspects of holistic re-engagement with self and being able to resolve these crises. Movement then, from the bound up and bounded potential energy of Figure 5 . 7 to the more holistic open energy flow of human flourishing in Figure 5 . 8 , has not been linear in my experience. I have come to understand, in fact, that ‘becoming stuck’ as illustrated in Figure 5 . 9 is an important signal of work that needs doing, a sign that I am dealing with a boundary of my own creation and am faced with a chance to expand my repertoire and bend, shift or break through the boundary. Being able to recognise these moments of inertia or turbulence as opportunities is a perspective transformation in itself, one spoken of variously as reframing (eg. Schön & Rein, 1994 ), harnassing the potential energy of the difference between the current mental model and the espoused theory (eg. Senge, 1990 ; Senge, Kleiner, Roberts, Ross & Smith, 1994 ) and, within critical creativity, as working with energising forces and spiralling through turbulence (Titchen & McCormack, 2010 ; McCormack et al., 2013 ). Enosh and Ben-Ari ( 2016 ) emphasize that being able to recognise moments of incongruence when they occur and, furthermore, to view them as opportunities for growth and as a source of new knowledge, lie at the heart of reflexivity.