I just came across this useful text about lived experience - a good corrective......

“The case seems to be as follows: much of our experience is silent perception, both of body and environment, and much is wordless action in the environment. Speech can latch onto almost all experience, including what is silently perceived and wordlessly acted, creating a vast domain of verbalised experience. Much of speaking is also carried on for its own sake, with little connection with other experience. And it is never certain, in a concrete situation and in the act of speaking, [an interview, e.g. TW] how much is using words as part of other experience and how much is just the experience of using words, where verbalised experience leaves off and just verbalising begins. So we live in a kind of doubled world, a world of experiences with words attached and the world made of experienced words… Such a situation, of living in the double world, is rife with delusion… Ideas and sentences crowd out experience… A good maxim is to try out and practice not-speaking, in order to have a non-verbalised world [moment, TW]  to check against the verba lworld                                                                                    (Paul Goodman 1973  Speaking and language: in defence of poetry:70, 81,77)^.

My comment:  The 'pauses' enjoined by BNIM methodology at key points allow both interview partners  (and later interpretation partners) a ‘moment to pause’ to ‘check and think' extra-verbally in this way.  

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Best wishes

Tom

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If interested in BNIM,the Biographical-Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM) approach to qualitative research interviewing, the following is relevant.......

The next (46th) BNIM 5-day intensive course will probably run  London at /end of January/beginning of Februaryy/ 2019. Please let me know if you might be interested, and to get more precise information (around September 2018).

A lot of material about BNIM is available from my page at RESEARCHGATE. 

This now includes the Quick Outline Sketch, the Short Guide, and the Detailed Manuals, and the BNIM Bibliography. 

Also several articles and papers.

Do feel free to consult and use the RESEARCHGATE facility.

 

Quite separately, I would be very pleased to receive and respond to  any comments or questions that you may have about those materials or  more generally about BNIM. 

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