PAPERS & ARTICLES
Topical Papers and Articles
Here we have a compilation of papers and articles covering topics on Facilitation, Teams, Groups, and Supervision. If you come across (or have written) a publication on this topic and are happy for us to include it here, then please get in touch.
Paul Barber: Becoming a Practitioner Researcher – Introduction
This text is designed to help you ‘think’ and ‘act’ in the manner of a qualitative researcher and will attempt to brainstorm you with options and challenges in a Zen-like way towards fresh insight. Indeed, Zen, ‘holistic research’ and Gestalt all encourage you to expand and raise your awareness, attend to everything, dismiss nothing and to establish a robust and intimate dialogue with what is unfolding in their immediate environment – right now. In this way, similar to a student of Zen you will also be encouraged to bracket-off belief and disbelief, to cultivate an open mind and to experientially inquire into what is before you. But first, I offer you a working definition of ‘Gestalt’ as a researching method...
Paul Barber: Group as Teacher
To motivate and develop personnel while fostering a co-operative team spirit presents a major challenge for business communities of the 21st Century (Waitley 1995; RSA 1995; Barber 2002). To this end this paper sets out to examine the gains and challenges of using a Gestalt informed peer-learning community within a commerciallybased master’s to nurture co-operation and personal development. On ancient maps in locations where danger was thought to exist the traveller was warned ‘there be dragons’. This account raises awareness to the organisational dragons that await Gestalt inspired change agents...