The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change

This is a free, downloadable, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators working with local organisations to function and develop in more healthy, human, and effective ways. 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 is also designed to be useful to anyone interested in fostering a healthy human organisation in any sphere.

Contents include the following:

• Chapter 1 - Shaping our World: New ways of looking at organisations and social change
• Chapter 2 - Inside Out: Towards understanding ourselves, other people, and how we change
• Chapter 3 - People to People: Creating and working with relationships in organisations
• Chapter 4 - Through the Looking Glass: Observing and understanding organisations
• Chapter 5 - Stepping into the Unknown: Facilitating change in organisations
• Chapter 6 - Finding a Home for Change: Supporting, grounding, and sustaining change
• Chapter 7 - Staying Alive to Change: Learning and innovating in organisations