You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Dynamic Relationships invites us to step into the appreciative paradigm where the principles governing our actions and relationships offer a means for increased value and meaning in our lives and communities of work and play.They empower us to become a force for creating and sustaining life-affirming relationships and success in daily living.
The focus of this book is on how the vitality and viability of the organization rely on communicative practices. In contemporary world conditions-where rapid flows of information, ambiguity, and risk prevail-relational process becomes pivotal. New practices of leadership are required, most significantly, skills in dialogue. After sketching the emergence of relational leading and key concepts in dialogue analysis, the book provides a rich range of practical dialogic challenges. The authors work with the reader in deliberating on "best practices," thus sharpening the reader's consciousness and preparing him or her for efficacy in relational leading.
"...Provides a brief introduction to social construction, and then illuminates the landscape of change. Special emphasis is given to topics of therapeutic communication, narrative, and therapeutic practices both traditional and contemporary. Critical chapters focus on the oppression of psychodiagnostic categories and the neuro/biological and pharmaceutical investments that support them..."--back cover.
In clear and direct language, the volume treats the challenges of decision making, leadership, group functioning, personnel evaluation, and the relationship of the organization to its context.
This book provides a closer look at transformative dialogue tools and processes for social change. It profiles 10 dialogue methods in depth, and another 15 more briefly.
Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM): A Research Manual consists of the work of Barnett Pearce, Vernon Cronen, and their colleagues over the past 40 years. The theory offers a rich set of ideas for understanding communication processes. Still dedicated to ways in which people coordinate interaction and construct meaning, the theory offers fresh ways of examining human social life. This manual provides a brief, clear, and useful set of tools for CMM research. Although this booklet does provide a short introduction to the theory, it assumes some background in CMM theory and is designed for CMMers who want a clearer picture of how to conduct research in this tradition. Of particular importan...
`An interesting collection of the state of the art of social constructionism and therapy, and a major contribution to reflection on therapeutic theory and practice′ - Changes `The chapters are interesting as windows into wider debates beyond therapy to those within the human sciences over the organization of meaning and change in culture... the value of this book is that it makes it possible for the reader to step back and think that therapy may mean different things to different communities, that therapy is not the touchstone but only one of many social constructions′ - British Psychological Society Counselling Psychology Review This volume explores the exciting possibilities for the th...
In a highly readable fashion, this text combines theory and case studies, domestic and international experiences, and advocacy of innovative approaches to peacebuilding along with appropriate caution against simplistic application of these practices.
This reader introduces a number of important viewpoints central to social constructionism and charts the development of social constructionist thought.
The overall approach taken in this collection of essays is on the edge of social constructionism in that it emphasizes the spontaneous, expressive-responsiveness of our living bodies as providing the background glue that holds us together in all our relationships.