ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the reader to interpretive phenomenology as not only a research method but also as a way of being-in-the-world. We are always in the world as long as we are alive and we are always in experience. Some individuals seem to go blithely about their life without much reflection as to meaning or understanding. Others, though, seek meaning as in the meaning of being human and what experience means in different contexts. We might say those individuals are assuming a phenomenological perspective in their life as a way of being in the world in interaction with self and others.
