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use of an asynchronous conferencing tool. That I intend learning upon them is sufficient for therelationship to exist. If I wish to analyse myself, then, adopting the phenomenological attitude,I can intend towards myself as a ‘detached observer’ providing I do so consciously (Sokolowski,2000, p.8). If I choose, then, to interpret the outcomes of that activity I may grow and develop inconsciousness and action. There is an ontological link from interpretation to reflexivity asexpressed by Jackson(RE-Net, 2007), which coincides elegantly with notions of thehermeneutic circle advanced by Gutierrez (1971) referred to earlier and which emerges aspivotal in the auto/biographical method that is the main methodological tool for this study.“The core doctrine in phenomenology is the teaching that every act of consciousness weperform, every experience that we have, is intentional. It is essentially “consciousness of”or an experience of something or other” (Sokolowski, 2000 p.8)So if I intend towards myself as an act of “self-consciousness-raising” – Gutierrez (1971) andBoff (1971) would call this process, ‘conscientization’, I become a legitimate phenomenonworthy of investigation.A further component of phenomenology is the ‘issue of appearances’ (Sokolowski, 2000 p. 3).This is explained in much of the literature by the metaphor of the 'cube'. Gurwitsch (2010)extends the metaphor of a 'cube' to that of a 'house' to illustrate the point more fully. One of theproblems with straightforward observation is that it can render findings in two dimensions only.In effect, it is only like a non-critical reading of a text where no attempt is made to analyse whatis ‘written between the lines’ or operates as a sub-text to a plot. Instead of examining an objectfrom a flat perspective as characterised by figure 2 below, it can be more helpful to look at itfrom a range of angles, a variety of perspectives, from ‘round the back’, at the side, from aboveand from below as signified by figure 3 which shows the same object viewed from a corner-onperspective.68Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)