SFH # 152 Action Inquiry with William Torbert

Bill Torbert received a BA in Political Science & Economics and a PhD in Administrative Sciences from Yale University. He founded the Yale Upward Bound (War on Poverty) program and the Theatre of Inquiry, and taught at Yale, Southern Methodist University, and Harvard prior to joining the Boston College faculty in 1978. He has written 12 books, the most recent of which is Numbskull in the Theatre of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science. It illustrates a new kind of social action and social science where the researchers include themselves in the study, and explore to what degree all the different participants are, or are not, exercising timely and mutually-transforming action.

In this episode, I speak with Bill about his mission and the impact his work is making in the world.

Let's dive in!

Learn more at http://www.williamrtorbert.com/