The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change
Tools and Lessons
This is a practical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations to function and to develop in more healthy, human and effective ways as they strive to make their contributions to a more humane society. It has been developed by the Barefoot Collective.
The guide, with its supporting website, includes tried and tested concepts, approaches, stories and activities. Its purpose is to help stimulate and enrich the practice of anyone supporting organisations and social movements in their challenges of working, learning, growing and changing to meet the needs of our complex world. Although it is aimed at leaders and facilitators of civil society organisations, it will be useful to anyone interested in fostering healthy human organisation in any sphere of life.
This book offers a perspective on why organisations exist, the real roles they play, and on the importance of supporting the sovereignty of local organisations and social movements for meaningful social change. Readers will find a range of approaches to leadership and facilitating change in organisations. In addition, the significance of relationships and power dynamics in organisations and organisational change processes are explored. The guide provides some tools for reading organisations, including how organisations tend to move through various phases of development, for facilitating change and addressing challenges in implementing or sustaining change. Finally, the guide gives support to processes of building learning organisations, how to continually learn both from personal experiences and the experiences of others.
A library of additional downloadable exercises, readings, case studies and diagrams to accompany the guide is available on the Barefoot website (www.barefootguide.org).
Series: Barefoot Guides
Published: 2016
Pages: 172
eBook: 9781780440033
Paperback: 9781853397141
The guide, with its supporting website, includes tried and tested concepts, approaches, stories and activities. Its purpose is to help stimulate and enrich the practice of anyone supporting organisations and social movements in their challenges of working, learning, growing and changing to meet the needs of our complex world. Although it is aimed at leaders and facilitators of civil society organisations, it will be useful to anyone interested in fostering healthy human organisation in any sphere of life.
This book offers a perspective on why organisations exist, the real roles they play, and on the importance of supporting the sovereignty of local organisations and social movements for meaningful social change. Readers will find a range of approaches to leadership and facilitating change in organisations. In addition, the significance of relationships and power dynamics in organisations and organisational change processes are explored. The guide provides some tools for reading organisations, including how organisations tend to move through various phases of development, for facilitating change and addressing challenges in implementing or sustaining change. Finally, the guide gives support to processes of building learning organisations, how to continually learn both from personal experiences and the experiences of others.
A library of additional downloadable exercises, readings, case studies and diagrams to accompany the guide is available on the Barefoot website (www.barefootguide.org).
| Introduction - Welcome What is the Barefoot Guide? | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The People Of The Barefoot Collective | |||
| Honouring The Sources Of This Guide | |||
| Copyright And Licensing | |||
| Chapter One - Shaping Our World New Ways Of Looking At Organisations And Social Change | |||
| Why Organisations Matter | |||
| Seeing What Is There, Supporting What Is Possible | |||
| Seeing The Future In Sovereign Local Organisations | |||
| Key Aspects Of Sovereign Organisations | |||
| Seeing Organisations: Machines or Living Systems? | |||
| Key Principles and Ideas Guiding this Book | |||
| Seeing the Ways Organisations Change | |||
| Seeing the Future Organisation of Society | |||
| Chapter Two - Inside Out Towards understanding ourselves, other people and how we change | |||
| Asking Good Questions | |||
| Good Facilitation And Facilitative Leadership | |||
| The Threefold Human Being | |||
| Phases Of Individual Development | |||
| The Four Temperaments | |||
| Leadership Polarities | |||
| Chapter Three - People to People | |||
| Creating and Working with Relationships in Organisation | |||
| Why Are Relationships So Important? | |||
| Seeing Through Relationships | |||
| Power, Relationships, Change | |||
| Types Of Power | |||
| Five Bases Of Power | |||
| Why Is It Important For Us To Talk About Power? | |||
| What Is Needed? | |||
| What can Get In The Way? | |||
| Some Practical Tips | |||
| Chapter Four - Through the Looking Glass | |||
| Observing and Understanding Organisations | |||
| Facilitating Organisational Understanding – Some Principles And Guidelines | |||
| Does Organisational Assessment Help Anyone? | |||
| The Phases Of Organisation Development | |||
| Using Phases Of Development In Practice | |||
| Organisational Elements And Cycles | |||
| Getting Practical – Techniques For Observing And Understanding Organisations | |||
| Chapter Five - Stepping into the Unknown | |||
| Facilitating Change in Organisation | |||
| Common Issues In Facilitating Change | |||
| Facilitating Emergent Change | |||
| Using The Action Learning Cycle As A Tool | |||
| Facilitating Transformative Change | |||
| The Seven Tasks Of Working Through The U-Process | |||
| Facilitating Projectable Change | |||
| 3 Key Challenges Of The Project Cycle | |||
| Drawing The Threads Together | |||
| Chapter Six - Finding a home for change | |||
| Supporting, Grounding and Sustaining Change | |||
| Why Is Organisational Change So Difficult To Accomplish? | |||
| Managing The Transitions Of Transformative Change | |||
| Practical Suggestions For Leaders In Implementing Change | |||
| Chapter Seven - Staying alive to change | |||
| Learning and Innovating in Organisations | |||
| What Does It Mean To Be A Learning Organisation? | |||
| Designing Our Own Approach To Learning In Organisation | |||
| Practical Guidelines for Designing Learning | |||
| Watch Out For… | |||
| Why Do Organisations Resist Learning? | |||
| Key Elements Of Organisational Learning Stories, Learning And Social Change… | |||
| Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) | |||
| Mapping PME in the Development Sector | |||
| Outcome Mapping | |||
| Horizontal Learning – And New Forms Of Organisation… |
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