ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I tell the story of how I became a narrative inquirer, offering a rationale for that methodological approach as congruent and suitable for researching ‘across cultures’. The chapter is presented as a series of phases, mainly chronological stopping points on a methodological journey. It reveals my engagement with philosophical concepts and methodological frameworks as well as connections with earlier, personal experiences of learning that were remembered throughout the process of reading and writing.The chapter provides some working definitions of cross-cultural research and engages at greater depth with reflexivity and autoethnography in order to explain the role of these perspectives in practitioner research.
