ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 describes how researchers, inspired by action research, interact with organisational practitioners in a co-constructed, multi-voiced inquiry for team development, learning and knowledge production. The practice is developed and refined while working together with a team of advisers at an organic farming and food production NGO in Denmark. The chapter describes the researcher’s role as a ‘disturber’, ‘facilitator’, and ‘co-creator’ and offers concrete examples of dialogues and reflexive processes carried out between researchers and practitioners in joint action. The methodology and theory behind the multi-voiced inquiry draw on inspiration from the Bakhtinian school as well as on transformative inquiries from the tradition of systemic family therapy. The chapter introduces these ideas and concludes with a discussion of how these methods, which originate from a therapeutic context, can be transformed for an organisational context by focusing on multiple perspectives, relationships and dialogic processes.
