The elephant in the room engaging with the unsaid in groups and organizations
A group is working on a business challenge. The group members are under pressure. They have a lot to accomplish and a limited amount of time. After first attempting to develop an overview of their common task, they try to make a plan to ensure an efficient group process. The planning is proving diff...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York ; Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge
[2023]
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| Edición: | 1st |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009757938706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Reader's guide
- Testimonials
- Theme 1 Double awareness
- Chapter 1 What is double awareness?
- The importance and challenge of reflective spaces
- The double task
- Challenges related to the double task
- The challenge of the reflective space
- Why is the reflective space in the middle of it all so essential?
- Points from my research
- Reflection: what is your personal experience?
- Reflection: what is your experience as a group?
- Recommended reading
- About anxiety and learning
- About reflection-in-action
- About the double task
- About action learning
- About leadership in the middle of it all
- About 'soft is hard'
- Chapter 2 Being mindful of what is above and below the surface
- Process awareness of what is below the surface
- Practising mindful awareness
- Emotion as data: above and below, inner and outer
- Reading and carrying
- Engaging our assumptions
- Deep underlying assumptions as competing commitments
- Points from my research
- Reflection: what is your personal experience?
- Reflection: what is your experience as a group?
- Recommended reading
- About working below the surface
- About basic assumptions and competing commitments
- About mindful leadership
- Chapter 3 Difficult feelings, negative capability and defences
- Embracing and examining all sorts of feelings
- The challenge of not-knowing
- Defences and defensive routines
- Anxiety, doubt and uncertainty as aspects of learning
- Practising negative capability
- On the look-out for defence mechanisms
- Points from my research
- Reflection: what is your personal experience?
- Reflection: what is your experience as a group?
- Recommended reading
- About negative capability.
- About the meeting between psychodynamics and mindfulness
- About defensive routines
- About the alternative learning circle
- About working with defence mechanisms
- Theme 2 Mindful avoidance
- Chapter 4 The practice - and consequences - of mindful avoidance
- Wilful blindness
- The challenge is not mindlessness
- How can we tell that we are practising mindful avoidance?
- Why mindful avoidance?
- Navigating without data
- Points from my research
- Reflection: what is your personal experience?
- Reflection: what is your experience as a group?
- Recommended reading
- About presence and wilful blindness
- About defences in performance cultures
- About mindful avoidance
- Chapter 5 Emotions as disturbance and loss of control
- Putting emotions into words
- Keeping emotions pent up
- The short-term reward of pretending everything is fine
- Worrying about emotional and relational messiness
- The pressure to act quickly …
- Points from my research
- Reflection: what is your personal experience?
- Reflection: what is your experience as a group?
- Recommended reading
- About working with emotions in organizations
- About purpose … and the challenges involved in finding it
- Chapter 6 Not-knowing as a competence
- Questions as a condition for learning
- Acting means fixing
- How can we act on not-knowing?
- Points from my research
- Reflection: what is your personal experience?
- Reflection: what is your experience as a group?
- Recommended reading
- About not-knowing
- About double-loop learning and defensive routines
- Theme 3 Mindful action
- Chapter 7 Truth
- Insight into truth in the moment
- The past is included in the present moment
- Making data accessible
- The feeling of succeeding with mindful action
- Points from my research
- Reflection: what is your personal experience?.
- Reflection: what is your experience as a group?
- Recommended reading
- About Theory U
- About working with awareness
- About asking questions rather than looking for answers
- Chapter 8 Transparency
- Transparency and clarity
- Being authentic
- From splitting to transparency
- Mindful action does not mean acting on everything that moves
- Rock the boat, but not so hard that you fall out of it
- Mindful alertness
- Points from my research
- Reflection: what is your personal experience?
- Reflection: what is your experience as a group?
- Recommended reading
- About authenticity and integrity
- About working with awareness
- About power and politics in organizations
- Chapter 9 Trust
- From doubt to trust
- Daring to embrace vulnerability
- How trust emerges and is maintained
- Having control
- Points from my research
- Reflection: what is your personal experience?
- Reflection: what is your experience as a group?
- Recommended reading
- About trust
- About vulnerability
- About holding
- Theme 4 From avoidance to commitment
- Chapter 10 Identifying and avoiding mindful avoidance
- Mindful Logs
- Assumptions versus facts
- Life stories and role biographies
- Immunity to change
- Awareness in action
- From brainstorm to question storm
- Points from my research
- Reflection: what is your personal experience?
- Reflection: what is your experience as a group?
- Recommended reading
- About methods for distinguishing between facts and assumptions
- About methods for developing awareness in the moment
- About working with defences
- Chapter 11 Mobilizing the three Ts
- Meaning as you see it
- Reflective spaces as a daily routine
- Putting emotions into words
- Handling taboos
- Dynamic tension
- Transparent rather than polite feedback
- Setting the pace
- Points from my research.
- Reflection: what is your personal experience?
- Reflection: what is your experience as a group?
- Recommended reading
- About your purpose and meaning
- About reflective spaces as a daily routine
- About putting emotions into words
- About dealing with difficult taboos
- About action that makes a difference
- Chapter 12 Consequences for leadership and organizational development
- Moving from sequential to simultaneous tracks in design
- Practising double awareness
- Your own negative capability
- Points from my research
- Reflection: what is your personal experience?
- Reflection: what is your experience as a group?
- Recommended reading
- About focus points in the design of development programmes - how and why
- About how to work below the surface
- Final reflections
- Index.
