Forbidden Agendas
Strategic Action in Groups
Antony Williams(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 3. January 1991
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-415-04401-1 (ISBN)
Description
"Forbidden Agendas" presents a new approach to groupwork for consultants, therapists, psychodramatists and teachers - anyone who works with groups. The book is specially written for the person who is "called in" when a group or organization is in trouble, or who is asked to run a group with special needs. Antony Williams draws on his experience as a family therapist, teacher and psychodramatist to provide safe action processes suitable for groups and organizations where new solutions are required. He shows that the use of strategic action methods creates a space where spontaneity can thrive, and where group leaders can chip away at the "forbidden agendas", the invisible loyalties that prevent group members from behaving in ways that make them happy. Sometimes these loyalties have been formed long ago, pacts kept even with the dead; sometimes they are current, attempting to protect or obey other people in the group. The book is designed to build on the leader's practical skills of "warming-up" a group for change, and is studded with examples, exercises, and alternative ways of encountering the challenges of change in groups.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-04401-1 (9780415044011)
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Content
Part 1 The act of change: experiencing thinking; ideas for an outsider; social atom and self; focusing the conflict; responding to the problem. Part 2 Warm-up and sociometry: warming up; finding a voice; warm up to what; failure in warm up; classical sociometry; sociometry as intervention; sociometric applications; strategic sociometry; a living aesthetic.