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Authors Dan Wulff and Sally St. George use their own lives as templates for understanding the major theme of this chapter, which is that doing research as a professional and making decisions about everyday life are synonymous. What people do is largely based on what they believe is possible and available. This everyday process mirrors a scientific process as well. The authors’ work focuses on what is in practice rather than trying to impact or influence practice from a position outside. The aim is to go forward, not necessarily to fix or to remedy. This is a significant re-imagining for practitioners – the focus shifts from producing change in the client, customer, or community to joining with efforts to take next steps in a preferred direction. It is an endeavor that is not formalized, specified, or described as action research. One might say that ‘action research’ is a formalized and deliberate term for what all people engage in during the course of their everyday lives in making their decisions, big and small.

For the authors, this pragmatic approach is utilized in their teaching, clinical work, and program of research. Importantly, inquiry fits into what the practitioner is already doing, rather than being an extra task over and above the daily work. Six initiatives/activities encompass both what they consider practice and what they consider research: attending to curiosities, speculating, enlisting partners, gathering information, making sense, and reflecting-in-action.