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�Interlogues: �An invitation to change�16^th Annual Qualitative Report Conference 2025�#TQR2025 �

Cynthia Lubin Langtiw, PsyD

clangtiw@thechicagoschool.edu

Adam Bodner, PsyD

abodner@ego.thechicagoschool.edu

Sarah Gilberg, PsyD

drsarahgilbergpsyd@gmail.com

Pearlie Lubin, EdD

pearlie.lubin@yahoo.com

Kassandra Murad, MA

kmurad@ego.thechicagoschool.edu

Neeti Shenoy, MA

nshenoy@ego.thechicagoschool.edu

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IF YOU’RE DOING IT RIGHT…

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Interlogues: An invitation to change�16^th Annual The Qualitative Report Conference 2025�Interlogues explicitly capture the transformation that occurs for the researcher through the research project. In this panel presentation, five qualitative dissertants will discuss how they each responded to the “invitation to change” in their dissertations by sharing their interlogues.�VIRTUAL Friday 3.28.2025 1:20pmCST Chicago 2:20pm EST 12:20pm CST/Costa Rica�questions: clangtiw@thechicagoschool.edu �Register and join: FREE Zoom link��

Kassandra Murad, MA

Neeti Shenoy, MA

Cynthia Lubin Langtiw, PsyD

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Exercise

Think about a research project/research paper in which you had a strong connection…

Take one minute to think about your connection…Let your mind, heart, Spirit …meander…

What came up for you?

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Interlogues

Interlogues are a chapter in the qualitative research process that explicitly capture the transformation that occurs for the researcher through the research project.

Interlogues can include critical elements of self-reflection inherent to successful qualitative research such as reflexivity, bracketing, memoing, and positionality.

Interlogues take this to the next step by asking that the researcher explicitly examine and articulate the process of transformation.

Interlogues answer the question:

How did this research process change you?

Interlogues are an invitation to share the change…

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Interlogue intention…

The interlogue hope/intention is to guide qualitative researchers/students through a process in which they deeply explore, discover, document and articulate their:

Connection

Reaction

Trepidation

Expectations

Vulnerabilities

Shaky places

Revelations

To their research throughout the qualitative research process as a means of developing their interlogue after they have completed their research project.

In this panel presentation, five qualitative dissertants will communicate how they responded to the “invitation to change” in their dissertations by sharing their interlogues.

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Adam Bodner

For my doctoral dissertation, I studied an online group of anti-feminist men known as incels

Grounded theory approach

What Causes Men to Adopt Incel Ideology?

I had no connection to this topic outside of curiosity
I was completely unaware of the transformative experience this research project would become

Personally

Engaging critically with masculinity
Understanding my own experiences through a new lens

Stepping outside my comfort zone

The research process

Rejecting assumptions
Iterative process
“Taking sides”

Professionally

Working with individuals who have caused sexual harm

Masculinity and sex
Role of shame

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�Sarah Gilberg

The Elephant in the Room: Guidance for White Clinicians to Provide Quality Therapy to Black Clients

Purpose: (from the perspective of Black clients)

Identify the important factors that build a trusting therapeutic alliance between a Black client and white therapist
To inform training for white therapists and ultimately provide better therapy for Black clients
To increase the numbers of Black clients who can receive quality therapy from white therapists (majority of workforce at present)

Transcendental phenomenology – center the voice/lived experience of the participants

What is “the elephant in the room”? How does it show up?

Throughout my research process
Learnings applied to my work as a clinical psychologist

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Pearlie Lubin

Dissertation:

Teaching Practices of Adult Non-Native Teachers in the ESOL Multicultural Classroom

Professionally: Working with teachers who have a different English language background.

Role of Self-Identity
Perception of professional development and mentoring

Personally: Crumble. Rebuild. Resilience.

Pride and the iterative writing process
Perseverance and foundations
Catapults and Peaks
Grace

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Kassandra Murad�Making meaning of the intersection: A phenomenological exploration into black women’s relationship with their gendered racial identity�

Inviting Curiosity

A desire to see how each person makes meaning of their experiences.
A multicultural framework requires us to move beyond a singular understanding. Allow your curiosity to create movement.

Moving Towards Connection

As I integrated all the pieces of my data, I found that my dissertation brought to light the power to embrace that, which prioritizes connection over distance.
As one of my participants said “I don't know if I should say like ‘a knowingness’, but there's some kind of like… Common ground or like shared understanding that I feel right, kind of naturally with black woman more so.”

Role of Community

“...Healing is an act of communion”

- bell hooks.

My dissertation illuminated the significance of community in one’s healing process and daily life. In my therapeutic work, assessing one’s community provides insight into sources of strength that extend beyond the individual.

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Neeti Shenoy

A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Lived-Experience of Career Choice as a Second Generation South Asian Female Undergraduate Student

Hearing the experiences of students and understanding the themes that influence career choice
Themes: stress, high school, financial considerations, personal goals, encouragement of others, impact of political climate

Professional Impact

Addressing internal bias: highlighting voices → sharing diverse voices
Curious about relationships/messages beyond familial ones
Focus on internal monologues and where they come from

Personal Impact

Humbling; my experience is one in a wide array of experiences
Increased critical thinking of my own influences and internally held beliefs
Gratitude; hearing different immigration stories and sacrifice
Healing/hope; living in a world where people face all kinds of hardship and continue to make a difference/ move forward towards positive change

Research focused on the experience of second-generation South Asian female undergraduate students - in hopes of exploring what might be helpful from a counseling lens in supporting this demographics exploration process. Personally experienced lots of anxiety and low mood from trying to balance different cultures and curious if there’s evidence of this being a trend, and an area of focus from a mental health perspective.

Came into the process assuming that there would be a high likelihood of “parents wanted one thing and I wanted another” which was untrue; lots of folks felt supported by parents but had varying experiences across a wider community of individuals.

The zeitgeist based on region could also be an influence - saw that folks growing up in tech heavy areas were encouraged to explore more. General emphasis on well being more than anything - find something that will financially support you = most important; variability on if that should be in line with values or not.

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Thank you for engaging with us in this sacred process!

We welcome your thoughts, musing,

meanderings, questions and feedback.

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References

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Ibrahim, N., & Edgley, A. (2015). Embedding Researcher’s Reflexive Accounts within the Analysis of a Semi-Structured Qualitative Interview. The Qualitative Report, 20(10), 1671-1681. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol20/iss10/9

Langtiw, C.L. (2020). Interlogues: Teaching Qualitative Researchers to Articulate Transformation. The Qualitative Report Twelfth Annual Conference at Nova Southeastern University, Davie, FL.

Minichiello, Victor & Kottler, Jeffrey. (2010). Qualitative Journeys: Student and Mentor Experiences with Research.

Walsh, R. (2003). The methods of reflexivity. The Humanistic Psychologist, 31(4), 51–66.

Van Schalkwyk, G. J. (2010). Collage Life Story Elicitation Technique: A Representational Technique for Scaffolding Autobiographical Memories. The Qualitative Report, 15(3), 675-695. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2010.1170