Session Description: Reflexivity about how boundary spanning teams conduct their work is essential for increasing its quality and being ready for next steps. Helpful reflexivity requires wisdom and skill in unlocking our hidden assumptions, bodily knowledge, and moral imagination. These tools can help. Be sure to bring your Field Notebook with you and pull up our growing inventory of tools presented in this series.

• Tool 1: Evaluation Criteria for Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research, presented by Antonietta Di Giulio. The tool is a comprehensive set of questions with instructions that can be used to evaluate a project's inter- and transdisciplinary quality, contributing to reflexivity and readiness for the next step. A participative implementation of the tool can also contribute to team cohesion.

  • Presenter: Dr. Antonietta Di Giulio is a senior researcher at the University of Basel, Program Man-Society-Environment (MGU). She leads the Research Group Inter-/Transdisciplinarity. Her research interests include theory and methodology of inter- and transdisciplinary research and teaching, quality of life and sustainable development, sustainable consumption.

• Tool 2: Model the Metaphor, presented by Margot Greenlee. Model the Metaphor is a creative process that helps team members better understand their perspectives, creative capacity, and overall readiness. Useful during onboarding and periodic assessments, the method serves as a way to reflect on what has been accomplished and what lies ahead.

  • Presenter: Choreographer Margot Greenlee, Artistic Director of BodyWise Dance, applies creative research methods in order to understand topics as far-reaching as sky science and the human genome. She collaborates with people of all ages, abilities and cultures, supporting the formation and growth of inclusive teams. Follow Margot and team @BodyWiseDance.