Completed Research

The following collaborative inquiry projects have been completed. This work has been published or presented at conferences as we seek to ensure our research has a relevance to practitioners and individuals working in the people helping professions.

Desmond, B. (2019). Collaborative Inquiry as Research: an exploration of embodied Gestalt group supervision. Gestalt Review. Vol. 23,  No. 1, 44-66.


Desmond, B. (2018) Embodied Collaborative Inquiry: a Pragmatic Practice-Based Research Approach. The Irish Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Vol. 18, No. 3, 4-9.


Desmond, B. (2017) Paper: Framing practitioner research as mo(ve)ment to mo(ve)ment inquiry.  Gestalt Research Conference, Paris 2017


Desmond, B. (2017) Poster presentation : Embodied Gestalt Group Supervision: A Collaborative Inquiry - a process of researching with and by people not on people.Gestalt Research Conference,  Paris 2017 http://gestalt-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Poster-Embodied-Gestalt-Group-Supervision.pdf


Desmond, B. (2014). Enhancing Facilitation of Senior Executive Groups and Boards. OD Practitioner, Vol. 45, No. 1,  26 – 33


Desmond, B. (2011) Gestalt approach to working with gay persons seeking meaningful relational contact, in Bloom, D. & Brownell, P. (Eds.) Continuity and Change: Gestalt Therapy Now. SA, Cambridge Scholars Press


Desmond, B (2010) Gestalt: Gay Men Seeking Meaningful Relational Contact at International Conference Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT), Philadelphia, USA, June 2010


Desmond, B. (2010) A trainee supervisor's perspective; liberating the 'imprisoning' self of coach in becoming a supervisor, Workshop presentation at British Association for Supervision Practice and Research Annual Conference on Supervision, 'Competent Supervisors: Imprisonment or Liberation?', 24 - 25 July 2010