Description
Book SynopsisA radically new approach to the understanding of organisations and communities and to the practice of social development
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
The Endeavour - A Preface
Social Process and the Practitioner - A Synopsis
SECTION I - observation
1. Beyond Reductionism
2. Emergence
3. Life’s Resources
4. Intuition - Seeing Holistically
5. Indications for Practice
Exercise - Drawing
6. Revisiting the Whole
Exercise - Listening (1)
SECTION II - understanding
7. Freedom and Constraint
Exercise - Developing the Core
8. Balancing Heaven and Earth
Exercise - Creative Thinking (1)
9. The Creative Round
Exercise - Growth and Decay
10. On Becoming
Exercise - Reading Oneself
11. Dancing with Shadows
Exercise - Exploring Shadows
12. Paradoxes of Power
Exercise - Fingering Power
13. The Pattern of Reversal
Exercise - Making Culture Conscious
SECTION III - change
14. The Narrative Thread
Exercise - Discovering Wonder
15. Stories from the Field
Exercise - Characterisation
16. Metamorphosis
Exercise - Turning Points
17. Guidance
Exercise - Listening (2)
18. Rites of Passage
Exercise - The Elements
19. Consolidating Change
Exercise - Working with Peers
SECTION IV - practice
20. Discerning
Exercise - Creative Thinking (2)
21. Co-creating
Exercise - Questioning
22. Emptying
Exercise - Shifting the Pattern
23. Awakening
