# Photo Challenge: Where in your world do you see braiding?

**URL:** https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/photo-challenge-where-in-your-world-do-you-see-braiding/5753
**Category:** Braiding
**Tags:** photo-challenge, braiding
**Created:** [September 6, 2023, 6:44am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/photo-challenge-where-in-your-world-do-you-see-braiding/5753 "2023-09-06T06:44:49Z")
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### Author: ![lesleyboyd](https://connect.oeglobal.org/user_avatar/connect.oeglobal.org/lesleyboyd/32/4957_2.png) [@lesleyboyd](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/lesleyboyd)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/photo-challenge-where-in-your-world-do-you-see-braiding/5753/13 "2023-09-21T19:04:45Z")

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Fab picture @cogdog. Flowing water is a brilliant analogy for ‘becoming’ research. Reality is understood exactly as it is, as a continuously unfolding and emerging process flow, rather than relatively static entities to which change might happen. So we have _knowing_ instead of _knowledge_, and express things as verbs or gerunds (with ‘ing’ at the end), instead of nouns.

There is a term in the management and organisation studies discipline called _prehensive_, which means research carried out _from within_, as an intrinsic part of a situation instead _from-the-outside_ as a separated observer, and _in-the-flow_, instead of retrospective or _after-the-fact_ research which looks to explain things, how things happened, or how the researcher interprets them ([Langley and Tsoukas, 2016, p.8](https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/the-sage-handbook-of-process-organization-studies)). This is pretty profound and I think resonates with indigenous value systems and ways of acting and thinking. It is also very mutually respectful and interrelated, and a different and more open way of thinking about research which sets out to improve situations. Just some thoughts about ‘becoming’.

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