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Development practitioners and social process : artists of the invisible / Allan Kaplan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2002.Description: xix, 214 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745310192
  • 9780745310190
  • 0745310184
  • 9780745310183
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Development practitioners and social process.; Online version:: Development practitioners and social process.LOC classification:
  • HN49.C6 K376 2002
Other classification:
  • MS 5750
Contents:
Beyond reductionism -- Emergence -- Life's resources -- Intuition : Seeing holistically -- Indications for practice -- Revisiting the whole -- Freedom and constraint -- Balancing heaven and earth -- The creative round -- On becoming -- Dancing with shadows -- Paradoxes of power -- The pattern of reversal -- The narrative thread -- Stories from the field -- Metamorphosis -- Guidance -- Rites of passage -- Consolidating change -- Discerning -- Co-creating -- Emptying -- Awakening.
Summary: This title explores the practice of organisation development and group change in a way that should appeal to anyone involved in working towards social transformation.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book explores the practice of organisation development and group change in a way that will appeal to anyone involved in working towards social transformation. Drawing on extensive experience gained through many years of process consultancy within the development sector - mainly in Africa and Europe - as well as on the work of Goethe and Jung, Allan Kaplan presents a radically new approach to the understanding of organisations and communities and to the practice of social development.Challenging the tendency to reduce development to a technical operation that attempts to control, Kaplan's approach embraces the full complexity of the process of social transformation. He describes the terrain of social change whilst simultaneously providing exercises through which practitioners can enrich their abilities to respond to the mix of chaos and order which characterise social development. Exploring this delicate balance, Kaplan inspires a sense of responsibility and possibility for the discipline, and reveals how development groups can intervene in social situations in a manner that is both humane and effective.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beyond reductionism -- Emergence -- Life's resources -- Intuition : Seeing holistically -- Indications for practice -- Revisiting the whole -- Freedom and constraint -- Balancing heaven and earth -- The creative round -- On becoming -- Dancing with shadows -- Paradoxes of power -- The pattern of reversal -- The narrative thread -- Stories from the field -- Metamorphosis -- Guidance -- Rites of passage -- Consolidating change -- Discerning -- Co-creating -- Emptying -- Awakening.

This title explores the practice of organisation development and group change in a way that should appeal to anyone involved in working towards social transformation.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. xi)
  • Acknowledgments (p. xvi)
  • Social Process and the Practitioner: A Synopsis (p. xvii)
  • Part I Observation
  • 1 Beyond Reductionism (p. 3)
  • 2 Emergence (p. 9)
  • 3 Life's Resources (p. 15)
  • 4 Intuition: Seeing Holistically (p. 24)
  • 5 Indications for Practice (p. 30)
  • Exercise--Drawing (p. 36)
  • 6 Revisiting the Whole (p. 38)
  • Exercise--Listening (1) (p. 48)
  • Part II Understanding
  • 7 Freedom and Constraint (p. 51)
  • Exercise--Developing the Core (p. 59)
  • 8 Balancing Heaven and Earth (p. 60)
  • Exercise--Creative Thinking (1) (p. 67)
  • 9 The Creative Round (p. 69)
  • Exercise--Growth and Decay (p. 75)
  • 10 On Becoming (p. 77)
  • Exercise--Reading Oneself (p. 83)
  • 11 Dancing with Shadows (p. 85)
  • Exercise--Exploring Shadows (p. 92)
  • 12 Paradoxes of Power (p. 93)
  • Exercise--Fingering Power (p. 101)
  • 13 The Pattern of Reversal (p. 102)
  • Exercise--Making Culture Conscious (p. 110)
  • Part III Change
  • 14 The Narrative Thread (p. 115)
  • Exercise--Discovering Wonder (p. 121)
  • 15 Stories from the Field (p. 123)
  • Exercise--Characterisation (p. 131)
  • 16 Metamorphosis (p. 133)
  • Exercise--Turning Points (p. 138)
  • 17 Guidance (p. 140)
  • Exercise--Listening (2) (p. 145)
  • 18 Rites of Passage (p. 147)
  • Exercise--The Elements (p. 154)
  • 19 Consolidating Change (p. 156)
  • Exercise--Working with Peers (p. 162)
  • Part IV Practice
  • 20 Discerning (p. 167)
  • Exercise--Creative Thinking (2) (p. 175)
  • 21 Co-creating (p. 177)
  • Exercise--Questioning (p. 183)
  • 22 Emptying (p. 185)
  • Exercise--Shifting the Pattern (p. 191)
  • 23 Awakening (p. 193)
  • Notes and References (p. 201)
  • Index (p. 209)

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