Intervening and changing : looking for meaning in interactions

 Content: About the Editors. About the Contributors. Foreword. Part One: Introduction and Theoretical Position. 1 Intervening and changing. Looking for meaning in interactions. Jaap J. Boonstra en Leon de Caluwe. 2 Methodology of the evidential. Research and sense giving in processes of organizational development. Adriaan Bekman. Part Two: Telling Stories and Investigation Realties. 3 Storytelling as interactive intervention. Applying the narrative approach in organizational change. Francois Breuer. 4 Working with stories. Narrative and dialogue as methods for learning, understanding and practice improvement. Tineke Abma. Part Three: Investigating History and Making History. 5 Learning histories in learning and change projects. Making history with a passion. Gerhard Smid in discussion with Godfried den Boer, Vittorio Busato, Liesbeth Halbertsma and Tonnie van der Zouwen. 6 Making History Together. The Learning-history method in theory and practice. Leen van Driel. Part Four: Appreciation Inquiry and Realizing Innovations. 7 Future Search. Inspiring, discovering, learning, seeing, imagining and doing combined. Gemma van der Ploeg and Annemieke Stoppelenburg. 8 An organizational change project based on an appreciative approach. A large group intervention in a chemical company. Luk Dewulf and Luc Verheijen. 9 Learning and changing in an open space. The dynamics of and in an open space event. Carla Vliex. Part Five: Looking for Patterns and Possibilities for Innovation. 10 Working interactively with causal loop diagrams. Intervention choices and paradoxes in practical applications. Hans Vermaak. 11 Intervening in processes of sensemaking. A method for breaking through the closeness of organizational processes. Hans de Sonnaville. 12 Interaction at work. Interactive interventions in social interactions. Dick van Ginkel and Mariette Thijssen. Part Six: Learning to Reflect and Change. 13 Organizing in-dept learning. Change as reflective sensemaking. Brechtje Kessener and Katrien Termeer. 14 Methodology for increasing collective competence. A context for co-creative change. Andre Wierdsma. 15 Shaping a learning process and realizing change. Reflection, interaction and cooperation through survey feedback. Kilian Bennebroek Gravenhorst. Part Seven: Reflecting on Acting and the Pursuit of Beauty. 16 Free conduct as a method of intervention. 'Void leadership isn't leading anywhere'. Julien Haffmans. 17 Aesthetics in work processes in organizations. A perspective for intervention. Mathieu Weggeman and Irene Lammers. Part Eight: Critical Reflection and a Look Ahead. 18 Intervention through interaction. A comparative review. Jac Geurts, Jurriaan Altena and Bart Geluk. Index.