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The European Society for Research on the Education of Adults provides a network of research groups, including the network working with Life History and Biography. Yearly conferences offer a creative and collaborative space that produces manuscripts within specified frameworks of investigation. Themes such as lifescapes, mountainscapes, and timescapes served as inspiration for essays presented at the 2023 conference in Trondheim, Norway. Monthly online Zoom meetings and blogs explored innovative ways of connecting and networking, culminating in a transformational learning pilgrimage. The following essay presents an autoethnographic account, describing a learning community in the Swiss Alps. This ski tribe learns in an Alpine environment, interconnected with the mountainscape. The transformative process of lifelong learning is illustrated by linking narrative phases of expression. First, participants shared their essays. Then, they came together in workshops, engaging in collaborative writing exercises where a group co-authored a poem that emerged from participants' collaborative writing pieces. In this creative space, phases of experiential learning complemented the concept of diffraction, increasing future forming potentiality. This autoethnographic account recollects how narrative coherence increased throughout phases of narrative inquiry. Autoethnographic explorations transformed into a learning pilgrimage, which further evolved into a spiritual journey akin to an odyssey.
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Biehl, J. G., & Locke, P. A. (Eds.). (2017). Unfinished: The anthropology of becoming. Duke University Press.
Brunner, J. (2002). Making stories: Law, literature, and life. Harvard University Press.
Clandinin, D. J. (2013). Engaging in narrative inquiry. Developing qualitative inquiry (Vol. 9). Left Coast Press.
Denzin, N. K. (2014). Interpretive autoethnography (2nd ed.). SAGE.
Gergen, K. J. (2009). Relational being: Beyond self and community. Oxford University Press.
Gergen, K. J. (2015). From mirroring to world-making: Research as future forming. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 45(3), 287–310. http://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-psychology/797
Gergen, K. J., Josselson, R., & Freeman, M. (2015). The promises of qualitative inquiry. American Psychologist, 70(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038597
Huntford, R. (2008). Two planks and a passion: The dramatic history of skiing. Continuum.
Inglese, T. (2018). Becoming a guide for pilgrims in a time of secularization. Church, Communication and Culture, 3(3), 335–361. https://doi.org/10.1080/23753234.2018.1545135
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Riva, S. M. (2020). Homing in: An adopted child's story mandala of connecting, reunion, and belonging (1st ed.). WriteLife Publishing.
Riva, S. (2021). From life-o-grams to transformagrams: Storying transformational processes and pedagogies. INSTED: Interdisciplinary Studies in Education & Society, 23(1(89), 129–147. https://doi.org/10.34862/tce/2021/07-5911-r949
Riva, S. M. (2022). Interweaving narrative methods into a mandala of transformative practices. In R. Yılmaz & B. Koç (Eds.), Narrative theory and therapy in the post-truth era (pp. 236-258). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9251-9.ch016
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Siegel, D. J. (2020). The Developing mind: How relationships and the brain interact to shape who we are (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.
Sweet, V. (2006). Rooted in the earth, rooted in the sky: Hildegard of Bingen and premodern medicine. Studies in medieval history and culture. Routledge.
Watkins, M., Lipsitz, G., & Bradshaw, G. A. (2019). Mutual accompaniment and the creation of the commons. Yale University Press.
Wenger-Trayner, E., Fenton-O'Creevy, M., Hutchinson, S., Kubiak, C., & Wenger-Trayner, B. (Eds.). (2015). Learning in landscapes of practice: Boundaries, identity, and knowledgeability in practice-based learning. Routledge.
White, M., & Epston, D. (1990). Narrative means to therapeutic ends (1st ed.). Norton.
Wilber, K. (1996). Eye to eye: The quest for the new paradigm (3rd ed.). Shambhala.