The Integrative Organisational Praxis programme is open to any discipline from any academic institution/ university around the globe.
Partaking academic disciplines
Organisational studies disciplines is a given.
In addition to that it could literally come from any area: Theology, The Arts, Psychology, Anthropology, Engineering, Architecture and others.
The question is not what discipline you come from but ‘what is,’ the intersection and ‘how do you’ frame that intersection as it is informed by multiple disciplines.
Research Methodologies
Needless to say that in order to accommodate the diversity, students might choose to pursue multi- or mixed methods approaches as we try to find a responsible approach between multiple stakeholders. What also goes into the consideration are:
- you institution’s supervisor experience.
- What fits well with the practitioner development side are narrative and social constructionist approaches, or postfoundational perspectives (particularly for instance in practical theology, arts or social sciences.
- Your methodology is also determined by the needs of your organisation and your own affinity.
- How you want to position yourself after the postgraduate journey.
- It is also determined by the kind of research question/s, hypothesis or central theoretical argument you follow.
- Other possibilities might include Integral Research Approaches.
What we don’t want is bland modernistic positivism in isolation unless your research sets out to also host a critical conversation between diverse perspectives and stating why it was necessary to do it in the way you conducted your research.
A consulting phase, to get it right
From the time that you are officially registered we will take 1.5 – 2 months for stakeholder management (if your organisation sponsor’s you) after which we have and additional 2 – 4 months to finalise and present your formal research proposal to your academic institution’s proposal committee.
Field facilitator, practitioner coach, and research mentoring/supervision
Depending on a number of things, and unless a different allocation is made from our side, Dr. Elmo Pienaar from Telling Outcomes (Pty) Ltd will act as one or all three of the following. Other persons are contracted from time to time and for specific aspects:
Field facilitator: The role of the facilitator is to ensure that the field that is covered (real world concerns), as well as the academic discipline in question is sufficiently addressed. Sometimes the role of the facilitator is just to ensure that your institutional supervisor’s full knowledge and resources are tapped.
Practitioner coach: This has to do with the actual skilled helping practitioner training that we have developed.
Research mentor/supervisor: The research mentor or supervisor’s role (whether we are the principle or adjunct supervisor) is to ensure that the ‘flight plan’ (your proposal) is actively advanced in academic terms.
Doctor Pienaar has been involved in all manners of skilled helping (coaching, counseling, professional facilitation and others), and has also supervised in relation to a range of disciplines (humanities and theology, the financial and technology sector).