1. • Participatory Action Research - an explicitly Latin development (Paulo Freire and Orlando Fals Borda) that emphasizes critical pedagogy and emancipation issues - especially important as liberation from the patrix is an explicit goal, • Praxis Intervention - that looks for ways in which the researcher can bring support resources to the grassroots participants in order that they, the grassroots, can develop better self-help approaches (clearly a patrix-busting approach)
2. Epistemology, concerned with
   1. how knowledge/wisdom is made and by whom
   2. how learning community judges new thinking: use it or pitch it
3. Ecosocial Epist. Community
   1. goal: to create new domain of expertise in eco-social regeneration. becoming authoritative w/o elitism.
4. Leverage
   1. every theory based practiced in integrally embedded in a socio-political context
   2. Working to change how knowledge is made is a powerful strategy as how we understand the world (our worldview) is upstream of how we act in the world.
5. Politics/Sociology of Knowledge
   1. considering ideas of
      1. know-how
         1. how knowledge/wisdom is created, considered and/or made plausible
      2. know-what
         1. where the focus on bringing attention to goes
         2. Who directs the "making"
      3. who-knows
         1. who knows or has access to knowledge produced. who decides what is good/bad
         2. In effect, this "walled garden" or "enclosure" online creates an increasing threat to democratic principles of informed citizens and academic principles of building on the shoulders of giants. Looks are deceiving: while it appears that we have more, we actually have less and less. (Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrum, 2007)
         3. "ecosocial knowledge commons"
      4. what-for
         1. for what purpose is the knowledge made and used for (liberation or oppression?)
         2. The Patrix conjecture
            1. this positivist science philosophy is, is derived from the thinking and interests of the dominant layers of society - the international financial community, the local owning and professional classes, the corporations, government and military and the law-enforcement agencies. The existence of these layers (and the corollary subordinate layers) IS the patrix (patriarchal matrix) in action.
            2. patrix adaptability and infiltration
            3. its invisibility, making itself (like subversive television shows?)
   2. what are the culture, theories, methods, models, metaphors, myths and intentions of our epistemic ecosocial community and what is the worldview that renders this plausible and valuable.
6. Action Learning
   1. many people from different fields coming together to talk about issues that matter to their contexts
   2. think and listens, offering counsel and unbiased probing to get to a new idea/outcome
   3. What goes well, what's challenging, what are ultimate goals, what are next achievable steps
   4. social collaboration challenging to our fragmented individualized meathod of living and thinking about working problems
   5. set up Action learning group
   6. Action learning is an empowerment technique that works to assist members of the set to notice their own capacities for problem solving, creative thinking and for giving each other constructive support. In this respect it is strongly focused on reducing the hierarchical assumptions that only senior experts can find solutions to complicated and complex problems.
7. Clearing the Patrix
   1. Liberation from oppression (both as a receiver and as a giver) is a lifelong process that involves a sustained effort in coming to recognize and eliminate our own hidden oppressor patterns, our (also hidden) patterns of internalized oppression (through which we act as victims) and the similar patterns of others. Doing this by only intellectual means is slow, ineffective and often incomplete leaving open the possibility of reinfection ...
8. Kolb's Model on Experiential Learning
   1. Hook 1 CE
      1. Concrete Experience
   2. Hook 2 RO
      1. Reflective Observation
   3. Hook 3 AC
      1. Abstract Conceptualization
   4. Hook 4 AE
      1. Active Experimentation