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Reflexive research recognises that diversity and individual differences confound ideas of an ‘average’ person or universal assumptions. Instead, it seeks to build authentic insights that resonate and connect with people, as they understand themselves.

The world is experienced differently for each of us depending on our ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical abilities and neurological make-up, as well as the different traditions we belong to. Further differences can develop over time since we are all likely to experience major life changes, which will unsettle our ways of being and knowing. For all of these reasons, my argument is that diversity should not be seen as a caveat or a correction to our thinking. Instead, diversity is foundational to how we understand the world and engage in reflexive research to build theory and inform practice – as champions of meaningful truth.