Do you want to become a SEVEN SENSES certified Participatory Action Researcher and empower people to tackle complex challenges together? Join the PAR Practitioners Program!

In our work, we often wonder how to get people on board and join ‘our project’. Even when we think we have the perfect solution for something, we get disappointed by the lack of energy within society to make use of it or to join in. The thing is, people most often don’t want to join other people’s projects. They want to join their own projects! Then how do we create a sense of ownership over the project? How can we get full commitment of people to create the movement we (and they) like to achieve?

Participatory Action Research (PAR) is an approach that enables large groups of people to co-create the positive change they wish to achieve. In the PAR Practitioners Program you will learn how you can facilitate this societal movement!

SEVEN SENSES is a growing network of Participatory Action Researchers all over the world. We perform PAR projects in all kinds of different settings on different complex problems (find here our projects). Participatory Action Researchers love their work for the high impact it brings in communities, for how much it empowers people and simply for making people more self-confident, cooperative and happy!

At the same time, there is a growing demand for PAR worldwide, from governmental- as well as non-governmental organizations, to tackle complex problems in numerous different domains. As such, SEVEN SENSES aims to train new enthusiastic professionals in conducting PAR and give them opportunities to work with SEVEN SENSES in PAR-projects of their choice as an independent Participatory Action Researcher.

The Program is designed for everyone interested in facilitating positive change by communities through applying Participatory Action Research.