Action Research:-
  ..or collaborative research with people, is a means of overcoming the limitations of classic research in a chaotic or unpredictable research situation. These limitations are the assumptions that:
a) the researcher does not influence subjects
b) variables be controlled, and
c) validity be statistically assessed.
Action Research addresses these shortcomings in the existing model and provides best results in unpredictable environments.
Action Research has been used in curriculum development, professional development, systems planning and qualitative research by organisations.

Classic Science:-
..is what people refer to as 'science'. It is a reductionist, quantitative method of inquiry based on controlled experimentation and peer critique. It assumes objectivity and thus must also assume "reality" in a laboratory. It is authoritative because of its assumption that it is the best way of knowing about nature, and it operates in a manner which totally excludes human qualities.

Discipline:- group of researchers/practitioners/ who follow a given boundary of study. e.g. the disciplines of law, architecture, zoology etc. Trans-discipline:- that which goes across disciplines; which can gather individual disciplines at a higher order, thus permitting a 'means' of dialogue where none existed. Working with comparable systemic groups of individual disciplines.

Epistemology:-
...how we know what we know.

Group Process:-
...is a method of transforming the issues arising out of conflict and diversity in groups of people. Thus it is a basis for either end of the spectrum, 'Conflict Resolution'--'Community Building'.

Heuristics:-
...from Greek heuriskein - helping to discover and learn. When you select to enter the heuristic course you will receive supervision in the changes within your own life while you are studying. These are very distinct from the content of an assignment you may successfully complete.

Human Ecology:- (first use of the term is arguable but see Bookchin, Black Rose Bks, Montréal & NY.) An emergent science of relationships between people and the natural environment.

Inner Work:-
...meditation in action. The immediate psychological work done when under challenge.

Meta (skill):-That which goes 'with' e.g. meta-bolism; meta-carpus (beyond the wrist), meta-physics

Ontology:-
...the nature of being

Phylogeny:-
...the history of the human species from biological origin to today.

Secular Spirituality:- spirituality not aligned with any organised religion, taking its basis from Nature.

Systems Theory:-
...is that which arises when wholes, rather than parts, are investigated.

Wisdom of the Group©:-
...compare Jung's collective unconscious, i.e. that which can be assessed by group process.