Development expert Kaplan provides a radically new approach to the understanding of organisations and communities and to the practice of social development

Acknowledgements The Endeavour - A Preface Social Process and the Practitioner - A Synopsis SECTION 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) SECTION 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 SECTION III - change 14. The Narrative Thread Exercise - Discovering Wonder 15. Stories from the Field 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 SECTION IV - practice 20. Discerning Exercise - Creative Thinking (2) 21. Co-creating Exercise - Questioning 22. Emptying Exercise - Shifting the Pattern 23. Awakening