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a researching life and 24% of my winter evenings

Last night was another session in my research into the social impact of spiritual practices. It was raining and misty as I drove to Cohort D for our sixth evening sharing in spiritual practice.

I began this data gathering phase of the research on 1 May. It’s now the 31st of July. I’ve conducted 26 sessions with 4 cohorts over the last 92 days. 24% of my evenings this winter have been out and about researching!!

Thankfully, only a few nights have been raining. Pleasingly, all my participants have been engaged, engaging and informative. Gratifyingly I expect to shortly have 7 focus groups, 23 weekly journals and 64 survey forms. That’s a very rich store of qualitative data to inform my research into the social impact of shared spiritual practices (as part of the Psychologically engaged theology crosss-training with John Templeton)

(I know that social media posts are supposed to have visual images to draw attention. But honestly, it was too wet, dark and cold last night to grab an image of a wet and cold Dunedin night!)