In Search of Integration and Health: Reflexivity and Communities of Practice in One Health

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This chapter explores the role of personal and professional reflexivity in integrative practice for One Health. In doing so, it recognises the need to transcend Western modernist thinking in which art, ethics and science have been torn asunder. Modernity thinking is characterised by the arbitrary separation of truth, beauty and goodness and the growth of commercial and civic institutions powered by instrumental rationality, an exploitative relationship to nature and life and the accompanying bureaucracy that sustains a blind belief in progress. This chapter proposes that modernist thinking may well be the root cause of the crises we face today and argues that to address this we need a reflexive turn that recognizes how mind and body, consciousness and matter are co-dependent. This turn is needed both at the individual and collective level if we are to address the knowledge-doing gaps that characterize the global crises of our modern era. In order to fulfill the aim of nurturing an integrative approach to health, this chapter adopts an experiential approach rooted in practice. The reader is encouraged to engage in a series of reflexive intermissions and practice throughout and to reflect on these experiences. The chapter starts by emphasising the primordial importance of attentional practice and the role of attitudes including curiosity and compassion in shaping not just our epistemologies but our ontological realities. The chapter explores how reflective practice has arisen and developed across disciplines and how it in-forms learning at the level of the individual, the collective (including organizations) and the wider system. Its relevance to One Health is considered before exploring a range of practices designed to nurture reflexivity, develop self-awareness, address biases and promote more equitable co-creative practice. Finally, this chapter concludes by considering the future prospects of One Health if the inter- and intra- connections, dependencies and potentialities are explored, nurtured and realised.

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