Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Social Process and the Practitioner: A Synopsis -- Part I: Observation -- 1 Beyond Reductionism -- 2 Emergence -- 3 Life's Resources -- 4 Intuition: Seeing Holistically -- 5 Indications for Practice -- Exercise - Drawing -- 6 Revisiting the Whole -- Exercise - Listening (1) -- Part II: Understanding -- 7 Freedom and Constraint -- Exercise - Developing the Core -- 8 Balancing Heaven and Earth -- Exercise - Creative Thinking (1) -- 9 The Creative Round -- Exercise - Growth and Decay -- 10 On Becoming -- Exercise - Reading Oneself -- 11 Dancing with Shadows -- Exercise - Exploring Shadows -- 12 Paradoxes of Power -- Exercise - Fingering Power -- 13 The Pattern of Reversal -- Exercise - Making Culture Conscious -- Part III: Change -- 14 The Narrative -- Exercise - Discovering Wonder -- 15 Stories from the -- Exercise - Characterisation -- 16 Metamorphosis -- Exercise - Turning Points -- 17 Guidance -- Exercise - Listening (2) -- 18 Rites of Passage -- Exercise - The Elements -- 19 Consolidating Change -- Exercise - Working with Peers -- Part IV: Practice -- 20 Discerning -- Exercise - Creative Thinking (2) -- 21 Co-creating -- Exercise - Questioning -- 22 Emptying -- Exercise - Shifting the Pattern -- 23 Awakening -- Notes and References -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Index -- Aboriginals, Australia 54 -- acceptance -- 137 -- 150 -1 -- 186 -- 188 -- achievement -- 185 -- 186 -- action mode -- 43 -- 44 -- air, element of -- 71 -- 150 -- Alexander, Christopher -- 173 -- 176 -- 180 -- 181 -- ambiguity -- 141 -2 -- 199.

200 -- anarchism 63 -- art, and nature 34 -- awakening -- 193 -200 -- to ourselves 194 -6 -- to responsibility 197 -8 -- to social processes 196 -7 -- Batchelor, Stephen 194 -- becoming -- 39 -40 -- 46 -- 77 -84 -- 180 -- 198 -- and co-creation 178 -- and power 93 -- and power 100 -- and reversal 103 -- and shadow 86 -- and social organisms 133 -- and social organisms 148 -- Benedict, St 188 -9 -- Benedictine vows 189 -90 -- Bhagavatam, Shrimad 123 -- Blake, William -- 28 -- 64 -- Buddhism 194 -- Cameron, Julia 130 -- Campbell, Joseph 54 -- capitalism -- 44 -- 97 -- 169 -- Capra, Fritjof 57 -8 -- CDRA [Community Development Resource Association] 96 -7 -- centredness -- 65 -- 103 -- change -- and consciousness 197 -8 -- and dynamic complexity 115 -16 -- and dynamic complexity 157 -- and nonchange 53 -- and nonchange 54 -- and nonchange 60 -- and stability 116 -- laws of 53 -4 -- laws of 62 -- measuring 156 -61 -- openness to 189 -- chaos, and order -- 72 -- 99 -- 107 -- 116 -18 -- 125 -- 134 -5 -- Civil Society Organisations [CSOs] -- 87 -- 93 -4 -- 96 -8 -- Clarke, Lindsay 65 -- classical science -- 4 -5 -- 7 -- 9 -- 14 -- analytic mode of consciousness 24 -- onlooker consciousness 177 -- co-creation -- 177 -82 -- 199 -- 200 -- colour, theories of 61 -2 -- concepts, and percepts -- 5 -- 9 -10 -- 25 -- connections/relationships -- 5 -- 8 -- 9 -14 -- and continuous motion 39 -40 -- and imagination 28 -- seeing 25 -8 -- seeing 33 -4 -- seeing 157 -8 -- seeing 171 -- seeing 175 -6 -- Conrad, Joseph 147 -- consciousness -- analytic mode 24 -5 -- and unconscious 103 -- creation of 198 -9 -- evolution of 140 -- holistic mode of 24 -- holistic mode of 25 -7 -- holistic mode of 119 -- holistic mode of 187 -- conservatio morum , vow of 189 -- contradiction -- 38 -- 103 -- 143 -- countervailing power 45.

Crowley, Aleister 108 -- cultural power 45 -- death and loss, response to 136 -7 -- democracy -- 168 -- 169 -- and anarchism 63 -- denial 136 -- depression 136 -7 -- development circuit 97 -- development consultancy/practice -- 96 -- 123 -5 -- Dickens, Charles 131 -- diversity, and fragmentation -- 72 -- 87 -90 -- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 53 -- duck/rabbit -- 11 -- 13 -- earth, element of -- 73 -- 151 -- 152 -- Edinger, Edward 199 -- Einstein, Albert 129 -- electricity 45 -6 -- elements -- 69 -74 -- 90 -- 149 -55 -- Eliot, T.S. -- 81 -- 196 -7 -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- 31 -- 165 -- emptiness 185 -90 -- exercises -- 34 -5 -- characterisation 131 -2 -- creative thinking 67 -8 -- creative thinking 175 -6 -- developing core 59 -- discovering wonder 121 -2 -- drawing 36 -7 -- drawing 75 -- drawing 154 -- elements 153 -4 -- exploring shadows 92 -- fingering power 101 -- growth and decay 75 -6 -- listening 48 -9 -- listening 145 -6 -- listening 184 -- making culture conscious 110 -11 -- questioning 183 -4 -- reading oneself 83 -4 -- shifting the pattern 191 -2 -- turning points 138 -9 -- working with peers 162 -4 -- working with peers 184 -- fanaticism 64 -- fields -- invisible 8 -- invisible 17 -- invisible 21 -2 -- invisible 45 -6 -- invisible 55 -- invisible 57 -- invisible 77 -- morphogenic 8 -- morphogenic 42 -- morphogenic 46 -- morphogenic 55 -- morphogenic 57 -- fire, element of -- 69 -- 149 -- forest, as organism -- 18 -- 25 -- fourfolding -- 69 -74 -- 77 -- 148 -- Francis of Assisi, St 133 -4 -- freedom -- 42 -3 -- 46 -- 168 -9 -- and constraint 54 -7 -- and constraint 62 -3 -- and constraint 66 -- and constraint 80 -- and constraint 140 -1 -- and constraint 186 -- and globalisation 63 -4 -- and globalisation 169 -- and laws of change 53 -- Fry, Christopher 46 -- fynbos -- 170 -1 -- 179 -- gestalt -- 25.

39 -40 -- Gide, André 133 -- Glasl, Fritz -- 94 -- 169 -- globalisation -- 44 -- 46 -- 97 -- and freedom 63 -4 -- and freedom 169 -- God -- 56 -- 178 -- 198 -- Goethe, J.W. von -- 3 -4 -- 6 -- 68 -- 73 -- 198 -- colour 61 -- developing faculties of perception 32 -- developing faculties of perception 34 -- developing faculties of perception 68 -- developing faculties of perception 177 -- developing faculties of perception 191 -- developing faculties of perception 199 -- imagination 28 -- imagination 34 -- measuring change 159 -- understanding nature 11 -- understanding nature 32 -- whole in state of change 39 -40 -- Great Silence 188 -- grounding 151 -2 -- Harrison, Roger 194 -- Haush, Rudolph 34 -- Havel, Vaclav 106 -7 -- Heaven and Earth 60 -- Heider, John -- 62 -- 115 -- Heraclitus 69 -- Herrigal, Eugen -- 174 -- 187 -- Herzeele, Baron von 20 -- Hollis, James -- 46 -- 167 -- 198 -- Holy Grail 178 -9 -- homeopathic preparations 19 -20 -- human condition -- 57 -- 200 -- Hume, David 5 -- I Ching -- 39 -- 51 -- 53 -- 60 -- 156 -- idea, realisation of 147 -- imagination -- 28 -9 -- 34 -- 38 -- 119 -- 199 -- implementation, and expediency 147 -- individuation -- 82 -- 198 -- instinct 42 -- institutions, and rules 62 -3 -- integrity 180 -1 -- intellectus archetypus 5 -- intellectus ectypus 5 -- intelligence, over knowledge -- 185 -6 -- 189 -- 190 -- intervention -- 115 -- 118 -- 123 -30 -- 133 -6 -- and co-creation 181 -2 -- and creative process 147 -53 -- and guidance 140 -4 -- and new way of seeing 118 -- assessment of 156 -9 -- effectiveness of 119 -20 -- hard and soft 142 -- phases of 150 -3 -- intuition -- 17 -18 -- 24 -9 -- 44 -- 167 -- 172 -3 -- and logic 38 -- and narrative thread 119 -- and narrative thread 130 -- and non-attachment 194 -- Job, Book of 131 -- Johnson, Robert 198 -- Jung, Carl Gustav -- 64 -- 165.

archetypes 57 -- archetypes 85 -- consciousness and individuation 77 -- consciousness and individuation 82 -- consciousness and individuation 198 -9 -- Kant, Immanuel 5 -6 -- knowledge -- 185 -6 -- 187 -- 189 -- 190 -- and sensory experience 11 -14 -- Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth 136 -- Lawrence, D.H. 135 -- leadership -- 94 -- 195 -6 -- leaf, diagram of 41 -- learning -- 78 -9 -- and unlearning 79 -81 -- Lehrs, Ernst 45 -- letting go -- 4 -- 104 -- 125 -- 134 -- 174 -- 194 -- Lievegoed, Bernard -- 99 -- 136 -- 140 -1 -- 193 -- 196 -- 197 -- life force [spirit] 20 -1 -- light and dark -- 61 -2 -- 71 -- 86 -- listening 158 -- living process -- 7 -- 38 -- 39 -40 -- 60 -- understanding v. explaining 15 -16 -- understanding v. explaining 21 -- living systems -- 7 -- 16 -21 -- 57 -8 -- and change 115 -16 -- and wholeness 181 -- dynamic complexity 115 -17 -- dynamic complexity 118 -- pattern 57 -8 -- pattern 60 -- process 39 -- process 58 -- process 60 -- process 72 -- structural openness 107 -- structural openness 116 -- structure 58 -- structure 94 -5 -- logic -- 24 -- 38 -- 102 -- Marcus Aurelius -- 3 -- 40 -- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia 93 -- materialism -- 5 -- 7 -- 10 -- 21 -- 24 -- matter -- and form 8 -- and form 20 -1 -- and space 107 -8 -- and space 171 -- and space 185 -- laws of 103 -- laws of 104 -- laws of 170 -- Matthews, Paul 131 -- meaning -- 13 -14 -- 25 -- 128 -9 -- 180 -- 190 -- and reading 28 -9 -- and reading 39 -- creating 31 -2 -- meditative practices 34 -- Merton, Thomas 187 -- metamorphosis -- 40 -- 75 -6 -- 135 -7 -- 171 -- phases of 150 -5 -- microbiology 7 -- migration, animal 42 -- Miller, Henry 165 -- modernity -- 43 -- 56 -- Monk, Ray 9 -- moral imagination 140 -1 -- moral technique 140 -1 -- morphogenic fields -- 8 -- 42 -- 46 -- 55 -- 57 -- music -- 3 -- 25 -- 108 -- narrative thread -- 115 -20.

acceptance of 150 -1.