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. 

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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. 

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.” 

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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. 

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.” 

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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. 

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: 

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.

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: 

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. 

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: 

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. 

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: 

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. 

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:  

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.