Useful resources

Here are a few names of theories, models, books and methods we find useful in our consulting practice (in alphabetical order). We hope they can be useful to you too.

Action Learning - International Foundation for Action Learning

Action research - Peter Reason's articles

Appreciative Inquiry

Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan, demonstrating the power or designing self-transforming organisations

Challenging everything you thought was possible in organisations - Maverick by Ricardo Semler

Coaching/Counselling - Heron’s 6 categories of interventions - For anyone serious about their coaching practice

Coaching/counselling  The Skilled Helper by Gerard Egan. A textbook.

Coaching for Performance - for line managers. Introducing the famous GROW model by John Whitmore

Coaching skills: 'Coaching with colleagues' by Erik de Haan

Community building - 'The answer to How is Yes' by Peter Block and the more dated 'The different drum' by M. Scott Peck

Consulting from a Gestalt perspective - out of print but classic Authentic Management 

Consulting skills - The famous 'Flawless Consulting' by Peter Block

Creative Visualization - A manual by Gawain

Dialogue - 'Dialogue' by William Isaacs

Gestalt psychology - 'Gestalt Counselling in Action' 

Integrative models - A brief history of Everything by Ken Wilber

Leadership and Management Development by Kevin Dalton for anyone in L&D

Open Space - Harrison Owen's very practical guide

Presence - The book and the Presencing Institute aka Theory U

Psychodrama - Moreno's writings

Psychosynthesis - A manual by Assagioli

Transactional Analysis - the International Transactional Analysis Association and TA Today by Ian Stewart

Systemic constellations - Bert Hellinger's famous book 

Team culture transformed through new listening and attitudes - Time to Think by Nancy Kline

Working Live 'Experiencing Risk, Spontaneity and Improvisation in Organizational Change' edited by Patricia Shaw and Ralph Stacey

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