Full Description
If we don't have the kinds of health and human services or even the kinds of lives, communities and organisations we want, then we need to think differently. Yoland Wadsworth offers an inspired insight and radically new proposition: that the act of our 'inquiring', of researching and evaluating together, is the way by which every living organism and all collective human life goes about continuously achieving the conditions for life.
Human Inquiry for Living Systems: Building in Research and Evaluation for Life explores this new approach for bringing about both wanted change and stability. By inquiring around 'full cycles' of acting, observing, questioning, feeling, reflecting, thinking, planning and acting again, Yoland identifies how new life might be brought to what we do.
All three of Yoland Wadsworth's best-selling books have been brought together in this Routledge trilogy to offer for the first time a coherent body of work addressing the pressing needs of people to 'inquire their way' to the future.
Contents
1. Some introductory foundations to build on 2. Living systems 3. Cycles of research, evaluation and inquiring for life 4. More (truly) living human services 5. Ten examples of building in inquiry for living human service systems 6. Concluding words Appendix 1. Applying living systems inquiry to evaluation facilitation - an example Appendix 2. Applying living systems inquiry to organisational improvement - an example Appendix 3. What's the Myers-Briggs® indicator got to do with it? Appendix 4. An example of use of the sequence of 'whole cycle' strategic research questions—in health promotion practice Appendix 5. Other integral theories of change
