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This book tells of the author's experiences in offering informal and formal learning opportunities whilst working with young adults, Aboriginal people, welfare workers and mature age university students. It is presented in the form of an imaginary exhibition in four main parts. The first part, 'The entrance foyer', provides an orientation and guide to the 'exhibition' or thesis. The second part, 'The main gallery: inviting learning', contains seven installations or chapters, with each installation containing six panels: 'Backgrounding' which provides an account of the circumstances and sets the scene; 'Sketching' which refers to an anecdote of a significant event in each of the seven episodes of adult education practice; 'Poetised reflection' which reveals the author's feelings and reactions; 'Intuiting' in which the author attempts to 'intuit' or 'bracket out' the phenomenon of adult education practice that is shown in the episode; 'Distilling' which summarises the experiences of the contributors and identifies emerging themes; and 'Comment' in which a brief comment is made on learning that emerges from the experience. The seven installations/chapters are: Reality at the Outpost Inn; Ringplace teaching at the Kununurra Mass; Trucking with the Miriwung; Dead words and live politics; Dusty journeys at IAD; The flight of the pelican; Starbursts and shocks at the Uni. The third section, 'The gallery of method' explains the rationale for using the expressive method and contains the following chapters: Expressive method in qualitative research; Phenomenology and the expressive method. The final section, 'The exit foyer' contains: The final reflections.