Intervening and Changing: Looking for Meaning in Interactions

About the Contributors.

Foreword.

Part One: Introduction and Theoretical Position.

1 Intervening and changing.

Looking for meaning in interactions.

Jaap J. Boonstra en Léon de Caluwé.

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.

François 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 Mariëtte 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.

André 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.