ABSTRACT
How do we enquire about another’s subjective experience? Phenomenological enquiry focuses on description of experience and attempts to unpick the essence of what we perceive and how we perceive it. In being phenomenological we need to adopt an open way of being in examining things, situations and experiences that in ordinary everyday life we would take for granted. In phenomenology we unpick your interpretation of your world and how your world reaches out to you. Take a few moments to digest that last sentence, for in our western individualistic culture we assume that any dialogue with the world originates from us humans, even in gestalt statements such as ‘the field talks back’ (Roberts, 1999) implicitly suggest that the field does not initiate, yet a simple example of the smell of coffee carried on a gentle breeze that brushes our face illustrates that we are not masters of any dialogue we have with our world.
