From Transformation to Transformaction: Methods and Practices

ISBN-13: 9781855756151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 296 str.

David Gutmann

Opis

In a first book - already published in four languages - David Gutmann expressed what transformation means for him. He did not describe a new theory, but a very specific and useful approach. How can human beings tranform their life. conditions, roles, as well as institutions, mileu? In a second book, David Gutmann and his colleagues explored these basic issues in relation to disillusionment - seen as a liberating process - and its corolloary, lack of desire. From Transformation to TransformaCtion may constitute the follow-up of these first texts. it evokes the practical consequences of this approach and relates several interventions and reflections made by David Gutmann and his colleagues travelling all over the world and discovering other experiences, other countries and other cultures.

This book is not conceptual. It is a vade mecum, almost a manual of instruction for those who want to deal with transformation ( which is nothing other than our daily experience ).

Thus, although it appears like a book about practice for practitioners, this collection of texts has not been written only for managers, or people of working in institutions. It is about life and liberation; liberty and libido. It is written to accompany everyone in the process of building and transforming his, or her, own life.

Spis treści

Preface One -- Preface Two -- Preface Three -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Groups and transformation -- Transformation -- Chaos and transformation: the primary scene -- The division into us–them as a universal social structure -- The decline of traditional defences against anxiety -- Between tradition and transformation: existential process and primary task for the life of organizations -- Transformation of language and social transformation -- Power and authority -- The paths of authority. From the unconscious to the transcendental: intervention at the Arab University of Jerusalem, December 1996 -- Transformation and collusion: from conforming to forming an alliance -- From envy to desire: witnessing the transformation -- Paradoxes and transformation in the role of consultant: from reparation to revelation 1 , 2 -- Consultation and transformation: between shared management and generative leadership -- The unconscious and politics: how to explore black and white in colour -- Anxiety and passion: about the inescapability of depression -- An (un)expected postscript

O autorze

David Gutmann