@article{Evans_2007, title={Relational Centred Research:: A Work in Progress}, url={https://ejqrp.org/index.php/ejqrp/article/view/15}, abstractNote={<p>This paper is an outline of a presentation first prepared for exploration in October 2006 with a group of doctoral scholars, as part of the ongoing the Professional Knowledge Seminar, held at the Metanoia Institute, London. The Metanoia Institute, in collaboration with the University of Middlesex provide a Doctorate in Psychotherapy.</p> <p>Relational centred research is a further contribution to the post modern paradigm of collaborative inquiry in the tradition of Barber 2006, Reason 1994, Reason and Rowan 1981, and Heron 1971, and others.</p> <p>From an epistemological perspective relational centred research is based on a dialectical attitude to ‘truth’ that affirms the paradoxical nature of reality, and is open to the entire continuum between and including polarities (Perls ,F Hefferline, R and Goodman, P, 1951/94). It seeks to grow and develop in the practitioner-researcher the capacity for openness, a willingness for vulnerability and the courage to sit with ambiguity, uncertainty and ‘not-knowing’ (Gilbert M & Evans K, 2000).</p>}, number={2}, journal={European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy}, author={Evans, Ken}, year={2007}, month={Aug.}, pages={42–45} }