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Last Updated on Monday, 17 August 2009 09:05 Written by E. Alana James Monday, 17 August 2009 00:00

The ReinventingLife.org websiteThanks for visiting reinventinglife.org. This is the web home of E. Alana James, and like all homes, it has to certainly purposes although generally everything here belongs together. I am an expat from the US living in a picturesque fishing village on the southern coast of Ireland. I spend my time writing and working with doctoral students. In preparation for A book that will be published by SAGE publishing in 2010 much of the new material for the site this fall is likely to center on participatory action research for business.

My "niche" is education, professionally and as a specialist.  This divides into two parts: 1) as I write, lecture, and facilitate an international project on the Future(s) of education, and 2) in facilitating doctoral dissertation work.   I gain as much value from the generalist side of my life as well, and much of the writing on this site focuses on the general topics of reinventing your life, your community or your world and the ideas and processes that support those changes.  Because I do not and cannot separate the specialist and the generalist in myself I do not separate them here.

Under the ideas that drive change heading, I write on:

· my current research

· global and cultural awareness, this section includes a growing number of articles I call the Mind the Gap series, having to do with my growing awareness of how cultural differences interact with communication and connection between people

· complexity and disruptive innovation,

Under the processes that drive change heading, I write on:

· participatory action research, both for education and business

· service opportunities that may change the world

· health and wellness processes

· all things related to reinventing your life and your work to

Under the work & life/myself &others heading, I write on:

· concepts and ideas on which I enjoy speaking

· personal bits from my life as an ex-pat in Ireland

· other people contribute to this navigation space as well and there is a place for funny videos

Last but not least, I spent a good portion of my time working as an independent college professor for a number of universities who have an online presence. One of my favorite things is to help mentor people who are reinventing their lives through the doctoral dissertation process. This results in the doctoral students participatory group thread. If you are, or know someone who is, in the process of writing a dissertation there are collection of tools and ideas here along with a social network that is slowly developing between students.

Want more information about me? My bio gives the basics, the CV gives you my professional statistics, links to my other books give you an opportunity to look into what I have written, and I can be contacted by e-mailing: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . If you are a participant in the social online networks, you can find me on twitter and SlideShare as alanajames, on YouTube as ladyreinvention, and on LInkedIn as E. Alana James.

For those of you who are visual - the following diagram may help as well:

The ReinventingLife.org website

15 August, 2009

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