What Would an Apophatic Action Research Look Like? Learning to consider delicate matters of silence and wonder in professional practices

Inspired by an ‘apophatic turn’ in theology, philosophy and art, and with insights from existential phenomenology, thearticle encourages us to step back as actors in order to let life or the phenomenon itself act upon us. This kind of apophatic thinking is not so far away from the thinking of the Norwegian philosopher Olav Eikeland when he describes “Insider and Praxis Action Research”. And yet, the apophatic potentials in his way of understanding action research are here elaborated by pointing to three dimensions: the Knowledge-, Beingand Mystery dimensions in apraxis, and to the four ways of seeing praxis from within both a “gnoseology” and an “agnoselogy”.The latter being led by adeep sense of wonder followed by what Daoist’s call Wu Weior“effortless actions”.