Cover -- Copyright Page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITOR -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION TO RETHINK -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 1: A COMPLEXITY APPROACH TO ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT by Lisa Kimball & Louise van Rhyn -- INTRODUCTION -- THE COMPLEXITY LENS CHANGES OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT AN ORGANISATION IS AND, THEREFORE, HOW IT CHANGES AND DEVELOPS -- THE COMPLEXITY LENS PROVIDES A NEW WAY TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN ORGANISATIONAL CHALLENGES -- THE COMPLEXITY LENS SUGGESTS THAT SMALL CHANGES OR INTERVENTIONS CAN GENERATE BIG EFFECTS -- THE COMPLEXITY LENS IDENTIFIES THE EDGE OF CHAOS AS THE POINT WHERE SYSTEMS ARE MOST ADAPTABLE AND CREATIVE -- THE COMPLEXITY LENS SHOWS HOW A SMALL SET OF SIMPLE RULES CONTRIBUTES TO PURPOSEFUL, COMPLEX, AND DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR -- THE COMPLEXITY LENS SUGGESTS SOME KEY PRINCIPLES FOR ENTERING AND WORKING WITH AN ORGANISATION -- THE COMPLEXITY LENS IMPACTS ON OUR UNDERSTANDING OF ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE -- THE COMPLEXITY LENS CHANGES WHAT WE PAY ATTENTION TO AND HOW WE PRACTISE -- CONCLUSION -- References -- CHAPTER 2 NARRATIVE APPROACHES TO COACHING by Eileen Thayser -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER OUTLINE -- GENESIS OF NARRATIVE APPROACHES -- NARRATIVE APPROACHES TO COACHING -- NARRATIVE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES: AN ATTEMPT AT AN INTEGRATION OF PRACTICES -- WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL DOWNSIDES OF NARRATIVE COACHING? -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3 THE GESTALT APPROACH TO ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE by Chantelle Wyley -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BACKGROUND AND HISTORY OF GESTALT ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT (OD)4 -- THE PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF GESTALT OD -- GESTALT OD MODELS AND TECHNIQUES: THE "SCIENCE" OF GESTALT -- THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GESTALT OD: THE "ART" OF GESTALT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES AND ENDNOTES.

CHAPTER 4 POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY COACHING by Lynda Gouveia -- INTRODUCTION -- POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY COACHING IN ACTION -- AN INTRODUCTION TO POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY COACHING -- POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY COACHING TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES -- ANTICIPATED RETURNS OF A POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY COACHING APPROACH -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS ON THE APPLICATION OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY COACHING -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1: CLASSIFICATION OF 6 VIRTUES AND 24 CHARACTER STRENGTHS¹²8 -- REFERENCES, ENDNOTES AND ADDITIONAL READING -- CHAPTER 5 SOCIAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND ITS RELEVANCE TO ORGANISATIONAL PRACTICES by Natalie Cunningham -- INTRODUCTION: IMPORTANCE OF NEUROSCIENCE WITH REGARD TO ORGANISATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY -- THE HISTORY OF NEUROSCIENCE -- PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF NEUROSCIENCE -- UNDERSTANDING THE THEORETICAL CONCEPTS IN NEUROSCIENCE -- PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THIS THEORY FOR ORGANISATIONS AND LEADERS -- DISPELLING OF NEUROMYTHS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES AND ENDNOTES -- CHAPTER 6 A GROUP COACHING APPROACH TO LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT by Alison Reid -- INTRODUCTION -- INTRODUCTION TO SMALL GROUP LEARNING IN THE BUSINESS CONTEXT -- WHY IS SOCIAL LEARNING IN GROUPS RELEVANT IN BUSINESS CONTEXTS? -- WHAT IS GROUP AND TEAM COACHING (AND WHAT IS IT NOT)? -- TYPES, TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS IN GROUP COACHING -- APPLICATION OF GROUP COACHING TO CERTAIN VIGNETTES -- THEORETICAL INFLUENCES ON LEARNING IN SMALL GROUPS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES AND ENDNOTES -- CHAPTER 7 TRANSCENDING SEPARATION: AN EXPLORATION OF INTEGRAL THEORY Tanya Stevens -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1 DEFINING THE WORD 'INTEGRAL' -- A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF INTEGRAL THEORY -- THE BASIC "VALUE RULES" OF INTEGRAL THEORY -- PART 2 AN EXPLORATION OF KEN WILBER'S AQAL MODEL (ALL QUADRANTS (DOMAINS), ALL LEVELS, ALL LINES, ALL STATES AND ALL TYPES).

BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER: THE DEPTH AND BREADTH OF THE INTEGRAL APPROACH -- PART 3 AN INTEGRALLY INFORMED APPROACH TO COACHING -- USING INTEGRAL THEORY TO EFFECT STRATEGIC CHANGE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES AND ENDNOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.