Phenomenology is a philosophical tradition concerned with the study of lived experience – of how an experience feels when you’re in it. Here feels means not just sensations and emotions. It includes how things appear to you, how you make sense of them, and what matters to you and why.
My approach is intentionally phenomenologically informed and not phenomenologically determined. I’m interested in what it’s like to experience collaboration and conflict from within a situation – with the meanings they have in your experience in real-time – and how awareness of experience can help you handle yourself and interactions better. Phenomenology’s philosophical assumptions and methods inform my approach, but don’t govern it.
Major figures in the tradition include Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
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