# 4 Doing imaginative inquiries

Playing, wondering, hoping, encouraging are all ways you can be. They provide you with ways you can think about how you act in inquiry. But, to help you imagine and dream differently, you may also need to deliberately change what you do as an inquirer, including how you see, read and respond to the inquiry materials, in this case the stories you have collated and written.

One way of thinking about ‘doing’ differently is to consider your inquiries as a process of ‘diffracting’ your perspective, to help you see and respond in multiple ways in order to generate new thinking and doing. Each of the activities that follow is designed to help you ‘diffract’ your stories from Session 2, and in doing so, open up the plethora of different opportunities that come from doing imaginative inquiry, starting by considering the role of metaphor.

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