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Ghzala shares: “You've got some people that are just speaking for one person and fighting for that one person and then you've got individuals that are fighting for a whole community.”  In this episode Amanda (Inquiry Creative Communication Officer) is joined by Ghzala Khan (Inquiry Guide & Storyteller) and Martha Smart (Inquiry Guide). We explore together the concept of social action and working relationally.  Referenced in the episode:  Access the transcript to this episode and others.  This episode is part of the short series based on the Inquiry’s value of being relational. You can find out more about the Inquiry’s values here.  Martha mentions their volunteer work with the Red Cross.  Ghzala mentions their social action with the local Asian community radio station (Awaz FM), their parents’ charity for a school for children in Pakistan (Amanat Educational Trust).  Martha mentions the research done prior to the Inquiry, the Together We Help research, which looked at social action during the pandemic and gave recommendation to Social Action Inquiry Scotland.  Ghzala, Martha and Amanda discuss defining social action. One available definition from the UK Government can be found here. The Inquiry initial definition of social action was “people creating positive change in their communities”.  Amanda references a previous Wavicle episode (Choice Points) in relation to the decision to have Guides instead of an independent panel of individuals with lived experience.  Martha mentions her connection with Darryl (Inquiry Co-Lead) through work together on the People’s Assembly Dundee.  Ghzala mentions the stories (17 in total) told and gathered as part of the Inquiry.  Ghzala mentions learning from the process is going with the flow and working emergently. Emergence is one of the Inquiry’s values and comes from adrienne’s maree brown’s Emergent Strategy.  Martha mentions a quote ‘staying with the trouble’ which is a book by Donna J. Haraway.  Ghzala mention’s Knight Rider’s talking artificially intelligence car KITT.  Find out more about the people involved in the Inquiry (Storytellers, Communities, Partners, Guides and Core Team for the inquiry.    Wavicle is the podcast series that reflects on the process of being part of Social Action Inquiry Scotland. We delve into what has emerged for us during this process of being part of the Inquiry, we highlight our learnings and unlearnings, and we explore the topics that have been rooted within us.  Check out the background the inquiry, as well as the stories and resources on our website.  Follow Social Action Inquiry Scotland on Instagram, X(Twitter) and LinkedIn. 

In this episode Amanda (Inquiry Creative Communication Officer) is joined by Deborah Menezes (Inquiry Co-Lead) and Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin (Inquiry Co-Chair). We explore together the concept of working with emergence.  Deborah shares: “Emergence is about not resisting change. It's about embracing it, observe it and understand it and work with it.”  Referenced in the episode:  Access the transcript to this episode and others.  This episode is part of the short series based on the Inquiry’s value of emergence. You can find out more about the Inquiry’s values here.  Delve into The Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown.  Catherine-Rose mentions transitioning and Sam transitioning from The Junction, which she founded.  CR references Audre Lorde and the book The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.  Deborah mentions the beauty of fragility and healing, connecting it to Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing ceramics with gold.  Deborah mentions our prefigurative future. More information about can be explored in the Wavicle episode Prefigurative Social Action.   Find out more about the people involved in the Inquiry (Storytellers, Communities, Partners, Guides and Core Team for the inquiry.    Wavicle is the podcast series that reflects on the process of being part of Social Action Inquiry Scotland. We delve into what has emerged for us during this process of being part of the Inquiry, we highlight our learnings and unlearnings, and we explore the topics that have been rooted within us.  Check out the background the inquiry, as well as the stories and resources on our website.  Follow Social Action Inquiry Scotland on Instagram, X(Twitter) and LinkedIn. 

In this episode Amanda (Inquiry Creative Communication Officer) is joined by Deborah Menezes (Inquiry Co-Lead), Mohamed Tonsy (Inquiry Storyteller) and Patrick Heyes (Inquiry Storyteller and Guide). We explore together the concept of storytelling.  Patrick shares: “storytelling is a way of sharing your beliefs, sharing your values, sharing your experiences through whatever medium. Especially in the way that we did the storytelling project, I think it's a way to get people in your community and people in the wider world just to try and spend a day in your shoes.”  Referenced in the episode:  Access the transcript to this episode and others.  This episode is part of the short series based on the Inquiry’s value of being emergence. You can find out more about the Inquiry’s values here.  View the 17 community storytelling pieces as part of the Inquiry here.   Patrick was a co-storyteller in the storytelling piece It Takes a Village to Raise a Child, as part of the Inquiry.  Mohamed was a co-storyteller in the storytelling piece Three Stories from the Waiting Room, as part of the Inquiry.  Find out more about the people involved in the Inquiry (Storytellers, Communities, Partners, Guides and Core Team for the inquiry.    Wavicle is the podcast series that reflects on the process of being part of Social Action Inquiry Scotland. We delve into what has emerged for us during this process of being part of the Inquiry, we highlight our learnings and unlearnings, and we explore the topics that have been rooted within us.  Check out the background the inquiry, as well as the stories and resources on our website.  Follow Social Action Inquiry Scotland on Instagram, X(Twitter) and LinkedIn. 

In this episode Amanda (Inquiry Creative Communication Officer) is joined by Deborah Menezes (Inquiry Co-Lead) and Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin [or CR for short] (Inquiry Co-Chair). We explore together the practice of reflection.  This mindfulness exercise has helped us to surface things and bring our authentic selves into the work.  Deborah shares: “reflective practice is an opportunity for me to pause, and to breath.”  Referenced in the episode:  Access the transcript to this episode and others.  This episode is part of the short series based on the Inquiry’s value of being transparent. You can find out more about the Inquiry’s values here.  Catherine-Rose mentions their work with Bromley by Bow and the piece of work they worked on.  Catherine-Rose referenced Kolb’s Cycle of Reflective Practice.  Deborah talks about the reflective practice the core team did after completing the Four Season’s Profiling Questionnaire.   Deborah mentions the wicked issues.  The team use laughter yoga to add a fun element to their meetings.  Catherine-Rose mentions a quote ‘staying with the trouble’ which by Judith Bulter.  Find out more about the Core Team (Sam, Darryl, Catherine-Rose, Deborah and Amanda), Guides, Storytellers, Communities, and Partners, for the inquiry.    Wavicle is the podcast series that reflects on the process of being part of Social Action Inquiry Scotland. We delve into what has emerged for us during this process of being part of the Inquiry, we highlight our learnings and unlearnings, and we explore the topics that have been rooted within us. Check out the background the inquiry, as well as the stories and resources on our website.  Follow Social Action Inquiry Scotland on Instagram. 

In this episode Amanda (Inquiry Creative Communication Officer) is joined by Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin [or CR for short] (Inquiry Co-Chair), Sam Anderson (Inquiry Co-Chair) and Darryl Gaffney du Plooy (Inquiry Co-Lead). They bring some of their collective mistakes and learnings in the inquiry’s work to the forefront. Exploring together, they focus on some of their experiences of trying to create a different way of doing things, but finding out the old, harmful ways have emerged.  Sam describes systems: “So yeah patterns, relationships between different things, be that individuals, frameworks, ways of being that are accepted as the norms. So that it's often systems that are around what we do habitually and the way it is. Or the perceived way. It's done that way because it's done that way.”  Catherine-Rose gives an example: “So we just assume, for example, that there needs to be funding that goes into communities, that there needs to be that kind of transfer, that that's just a normal arrangement. And so I think we have questions as part of the inquiry about why do we live in a system where that is what's needed rather than everybody having enough.”  Referenced in the episode:  Access the transcript to this episode and others.  This episode is part of the short series based on the Inquiry’s value of being transparent. You can find out more about the Inquiry’s values here.  If you would like to find out more about power dynamics and holding power, here are a couple of examples. Resource from Ming.org about power and privilege in facilitation and a video on Brave Spaces by Arsenia Tate.   Sam references another episode in the Wavicle podcast called Choice Points.  Catherine-Rose mentions about being a disrupter and challenging the system.  Find out more about the Guides, Storytellers, Communities, Partners, and Core Team for the inquiry.  Catherine-Rose talks about reflective practice in talking about ‘how are we in this work’. This topic is explored further in the Reflective Practice episode in this podcast series.   Wavicle is the podcast series that reflects on the process of being part of Social Action Inquiry Scotland. We delve into what has emerged for us during this process of being part of the Inquiry, we highlight our learnings and unlearnings, and we explore the topics that have been rooted within us.  Check out the background the inquiry, as well as the stories and resources on our website.  Follow Social Action Inquiry Scotland on Instagram. 

Chris describing prefigurative: “The things that root me are Gandhi, that saying we should be the change we wish to see in the world. So for me, it's about action that embodies the future that you want to see in the world. Being the future now.”  This episode weaves together two conversations about two residentials the core team of Social Action Inquiry Scotland took part in with some of our allies Chris Taylor, Nick Ellerby, Laurie Spafford, Callum Pethick, Andy Falconer. In these conversations they explore the concept of prefigurative social action and being the change, you want to see in the world.   The first half of the conversation involves Laurie Spafford, Chris Taylor and Catherine-Rose Stock-Rankin (Co-Chair at Social Action Inquiry Scotland) and the second half involves Laurie Spafford, Deborah Menezes (Co-Lead at Social Action Inquiry Scotland) and Callum Pethick. This episode has reflections from Amanda Wootton (Creative Communications Officer at Social Action Inquiry Scotland).  Referenced in the episode:  Access the transcript to this episode and others.  The two residentials referenced took place at The Haybergill Centre both in November 2021 and 2022. The third residential will take place in November 2023.  Chris mentions Gandhi and Pancho Ramos-Stierle in the Occupy Movement  Catherine-Rose references Black Lives Matter and the Highland Clearances.  Find out more about body work.  Callum references Healing Justice London.  The concept of emergence and Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown.  Callum mentions the three horizons model by Bill Sharpe.  When talking about needs, Deborah references Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.  Deborah mentions a quote ‘staying with the trouble’ which by Judith Bulter.  Catherine-Rose talks about replicating power dynamics even when creating something new. This topic is explored further in the Replicating Systems episode in this podcast series.  Catherine-Rose talks about dreaming space which is covered in the first episode, Dreaming, in this podcast series.    Wavicle is the podcast series that reflects on the process of being part of Social Action Inquiry Scotland. We delve into what has emerged for us during this process of being part of the Inquiry, we highlight our learnings and unlearnings, and we explore the topics that have been rooted within us.  Check out the background the inquiry, as well as the stories and resources on our website.  Follow Social Action Inquiry Scotland on Instagram. 

Sam: “There've been particular times we've landed and noticed there's forks in the road so it has felt like a point in time, and not points you could’ve plotted because they occurred due to reflection and learning and what we were in.” Catherine-Rose: “I find it such a helpful term rather than something about choice feels limited somehow but choice point feels like something you could plot on a map. And that it would be visual in a way, or something that would help people to see there were options and different paths and navigations, rather than choice A, B, C on a list. Something more organic.”    In this episode Amanda (Inquiry Comms Officer) is joined by Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin [or CR for short] (Inquiry Co-Chair) and Sam Anderson (Inquiry Co-Chair) to explore the concept of choice points. Choice points start from questioning an alternative route, and then emerge to shape the direction of the forward journey.  Referenced in the episode:  Access the transcript to this episode and others.  The Guides, Storytellers, Communities, Partners, and Core Team for the inquiry. Sam working with The Oasis Foundation.  The concept of emergence and Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown.  Find out more about Grace Lee Boggs and the question of ‘what time is it for the world?’  Find out more about the research prior to this Inquiry - Together We Help and Civil Society Futures.  Wavicle is the podcast series that reflects on the process of being part of Social Action Inquiry Scotland. We delve into what has emerged for us during this process of being part of the Inquiry, we highlight our learnings and unlearnings, and we explore the topics that have been rooted within us.  Check out the background the inquiry, as well as the stories and resources on our website.  Follow Social Action Inquiry Scotland on Instagram. 

Catherine-Rose: “What's beyond the things that we've inherited, that we've been told are the way things are? Dreaming allows us to see outside of those structures and outside of those patterns, outside of those norms. I love that idea of dreaming being something that there's a magic to it, that helps you lift up and out and beyond. I love the idea of people coming into community together, as we've done in the inquiry, to dream.”   In this episode Amanda (Inquiry Comms Officer) is joined by Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin [or CR for short] (Inquiry Co-Chair) and Darryl Gaffney du Plooy (Inquiry Co-Lead) to explore the concept of dreaming. The kind of dreaming that you can do when you're awake.   Referenced in the episode:   Access the transcript to this episode and others.  The Guides, Storytellers, Communities, Partners, and Core Team for the inquiry.  Read Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown.  Find out more about Helen Crummy and the Craigmillar Festival Society.  Find out more about Social Dreaming through Social Dreaming International Network.  Explore the Power Flower reflection activity.  Wavicle is the podcast series that reflects on the process of being part of Social Action Inquiry Scotland. We delve into what has emerged for us during this process of being part of the Inquiry, we highlight our learnings and unlearnings, and we explore the topics that have been rooted within us.  Check out the background the inquiry, as well as the stories and resources on our website.  Follow Social Action Inquiry Scotland on Instagram.