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5.1 Cultural Matching Read in Full »

5.1.0 Cultural Matching - Summary
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5.1.0 Cultural Matching – What’s In The Chapter?
5.1.1 Cultural Matching - Introduction
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5.1.1.1 Cultural Matching – Initial Words
5.1.1.2 Invitation
5.1.2 The Challenge
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5.1.2.1 Two Little Stories
5.1.2.2 The Reality Of Suffering
5.1.3 The Matching Response
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5.1.3.1 Female And Male Ways Of Looking At The World!
5.1.3.2 Implications For Focus Group
5.1.3.3 Listening (Again)
5.1.3.4 Rational Awareness – Very Hurt Person
5.1.4 Cultural Matching In Action
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5.1.4.1 Matching
5.1.4.2 ‘Designing In’ Cultural Matching
5.1.5 The Prison Culture
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5.1.5.1 The Prison Culture – Conscience And Remorse
5.1.5.2 Alternative View On Prison Culture
5.1.5.3 Opportunities For Prison Officers
5.1.6 Cultural Matching - Conclusion
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5.1.6 Cultural Matching – Conclusion

5.2 Creativity Read in Full »

5.2.0 Creativity - Summary
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5.2.0 Creativity – What’s In The Chapter?
5.2.1 Creativity - Introduction
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5.2.1 Creativity – Introduction
5.2.2 Creativity - General
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5.2.2.1 Creativity – Initial Words
5.2.2.2 Time
5.2.2.3 Attractiveness Of Creativity To People In Distress
5.2.2.4 Creativity Inhibitors
5.2.3 Creativity In Organisations
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5.2.3.1 Creativity In Organisations – Art And Technology
5.2.3.2 Creativity In Organisations – Practical
5.2.3.3 Challenges In The Creative Organisation
5.2.4 Autonomy
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5.2.4.1 Autonomy – People Helping Themselves
5.2.4.2 For The People – By The People
5.2.4.3 Authenticity And Autonomy
5.2.5 Creativity In Strategic Thinking
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5.2.5.1 Creativity In Strategic Thinking – Initial Words
5.2.5.2 Strategic Thinking
5.2.5.3 Some Characteristics Of Creativity
5.2.5.4 Outreach – Relevance through Presence
5.2.6 Creative Change
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5.2.6.1 Creative Change – Initial Words
5.2.6.2 Examining Our Lives
5.2.6.3 Other Aspects Of Creative Change
5.2.7 Discipline
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5.2.7.1 Creativity And Discipline
5.2.7.2 Discipline To Optimise Creativity
5.2.7.3 Integrity
5.2.8 Creativity - Conclusion
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5.2.8 Creativity – Conclusion

5.3 Leadership Read in Full »

5.3.0 Leadership - Summary
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5.3.0 Leadership – What’s In The Chapter?
5.3.1 Leadership - Introduction
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5.3.1 Leadership – Introduction
5.3.2 What Makes A Leader
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5.3.2.1 What Makes A Leader – Initial Words
5.3.2.2 Coercive Leadership
5.3.2.3 The Invitational Nature Of Community Leadership
5.3.3 Principles Of Community Leadership
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5.3.3.1 Principles Of Community Leadership; Initial Words
5.3.3.2 Reality, Adventure, Tenacity
5.3.3.3 Estimation Of Effort, Passion, And Recruitment/Morale/Support
5.3.3.4 Capacity Building, Mission/Vision Proofing, And Optimism
5.3.3.5 Openness/Transparency, Congruence, And Work Ethic
5.3.3.6 Humility, Holding The Tension, And Creativity
5.3.3.7 Principles Of Community Leadership; Final Words
5.3.4 Leadership And Processing Speed
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5.3.4.1 Leadership And Processing Speed – Initial Words
5.3.4.2 Processing Speed
5.3.4.3 Prominent Intelligences In Decision Making
5.3.4.4 Domination Of The Fast Processors
5.3.4.5 What Fast Processors Need To Learn
5.3.4.6 Another Little Story
5.3.5 Leadership And Courage
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5.3.5.1 Leadership And Courage – Initial Words
5.3.5.2 Encouraging Leadership; And Change
5.3.5.3 Courage And Responsibility
5.3.5.4 Relevance
5.3.6 Leadership And Power
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5.3.6.1 Leadership And Power – Initial Words
5.3.6.2 Our Need For Leadership
5.3.6.3 Power And Justice/Injustice
5.3.6.4 Power And Love In Leadership
5.3.6.5 Sense Of Our Own Importance
5.3.7 Leadership And Control
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5.3.7.1 Our Need To Be In Control
5.3.7.2 Control – Inclusion Of Focus Group
5.3.7.3 Control And Decision Making
5.3.7.4 Control In A Cultural Context
5.3.7.5 Leadership And Control – Final Words
5.3.8 Leadership And Reflection
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5.3.8.1 Developmental Aspect Of Reflection
5.3.8.2 Leadership vs Reflection
5.3.8.3 The Reflective Community Leader
5.3.8.4 Reflection, Imagination And Idealism
5.3.8.5 Multi-tasking
5.3.8.6 First Thought And Second Thought
5.3.8.7 Find The Gap
5.3.9 Leadership - Conclusion
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5.3.9.1 Leadership And The Pillars
5.3.9.2 Leadership And Change
5.3.9.3 Leadership – Final Words

5.4 Training Read in Full »

5.4.0 Training - Summary
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5.4.0 Training – What’s In The Chapter?
5.4.1 Training - Introduction
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5.4.1 Training – Introduction
5.4.2 Meaningful Training
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5.4.2.1 Purpose Of Training
5.4.2.2 Knowledge Flow
5.4.3 Modality Of Training
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5.4.3.1 Modality Of Training – Focus And Essential Elements
5.4.4 Principal Elements Of Meaningful Training
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5.4.4.1 Importance Of Emotional Learning
5.4.4.2 Design
5.4.4.3 Emotional (No.1)
5.4.4.4 Skills (No. 2)
5.4.4.5 Principles/Ethos (No. 3)
5.4.4.6 Models Of Therapeutic Intervention (No. 4)
5.4.4.7 Educational (No. 5)
5.4.4.8 Applications (No. 6)
5.4.4.9 Leadership (No. 7)
5.4.4.10 Method Of Instruction/Facilitation (No. 8)
5.4.5 Assessment
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5.4.5.1 How Do We Assess?
5.4.5.2 Summative Assessment
5.4.5.3 Formative Assessment
5.4.5.4 Self-Assessment Again
5.4.5.5 Competence
5.4.5.6 Work Ethic
5.4.5.7 Final Words – And Another Little Warning
5.4.6 Supervision
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5.4.6.1 What Is Supervision?
5.4.6.2 Supervision And Burnout
5.4.6.3 The Abstract
5.4.6.4 Power
5.4.7 A Window Of Opportunity
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5.4.7.1 A Window Of Opportunity – General
5.4.7.2 Description And Window Panes
5.4.7.3 Johari Window – Pane 1 (PUBLIC)
5.4.7.4 Johari Window – Pane 2 (BLIND)
5.4.7.5 Johari Window – Pane 3 (PRIVATE)
5.4.7.6 Johari Window – Pane 4 (UNKNOWN)
5.4.7.7 Relevance In Growth
5.4.7.8 Consider ‘Falling in Love’ And The Johari Window
5.4.7.9 Further Discourse On Panes – Family Support
5.4.7.10 The Family Support Shamrock And The Johari Window
5.4.8 Theory Into Practice
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5.4.8.1 Examples Of Incongruity Between Theory And Practice
5.4.8.2 Why Theory Is Not Translated Into Practice
5.4.9 Training And Scaling Up
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5.4.9.1 What Is Scaling Up?
5.4.9.2 Scaling Up – Cultural Implications
5.4.9.3 ‘Meaning’ In Scaling Up
5.4.10 Neuroscience And Learning
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5.4.10.1 Neuroscience – General
5.4.10.2 Neuroscientific Evaluation
5.4.10.3 Experiential Learning
5.4.10.4 Creativity In Education – Personal Experiences
5.4.11 Training - Conclusion
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5.4.11 Training – Conclusion

5.5 Research And Evaluation Read in Full »

5.5.0 Research And Evaluation - Summary
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5.5.0 Research And Evaluation – What’s In The Chapter?
5.5.1 Research And Evaluation - Introduction
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5.5.1.1 Research In General
5.5.1.2 Social Research
5.5.2 Critique Of Social Research By The Pillars
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5.5.2.1 Critique Of Social Research Within The Pillars – Initial Words
5.5.2.2 Experience One – Social Research
5.5.2.3 Experience Two – Social Research
5.5.2.4 Social Research – General
5.5.3 New Developments In Technology vs. Helping Professions
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5.5.3.1 Research Into Practice
5.5.3.2 Developments In The Helping Professions – Circular Development
5.5.3.3 Developments In Technology – Stepped Development
5.5.4 Implications For Research In The Helping Professions
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5.5.4.1 Implications For Research In The Helping Professions – Initial Words
5.5.4.2 The Child That Suffers
5.5.4.3 Indirect – Direct Research
5.5.5 Evaluative Research
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5.5.5.1 Evaluation – General
5.5.5.2 Circular Development And The Root Foundations
5.5.5.3 The Qualitative Observation
5.5.5.4 Evaluative Research Concerns Of People Who Care
5.5.6 The Root Foundations In Our Work
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5.5.6.1 The Root Foundations In Our Work – Initial Words
5.5.6.2 More Considerations On Evaluation
5.5.6.3 The Root foundations (Again)!
5.5.7 Research And Evaluation - Conclusion
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5.5.7 Research And Evaluation – Conclusion

5.6 Organisational Matters Read in Full »

5.6.0 Organisational Matters - Summary
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5.6.0 Organisational Matters – What’s In The Chapter?
5.6.1 Organisational Matters - Introduction
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5.6.1 Organisational Matters – Introduction
5.6.2 The Compassionate Organisation
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5.6.2.1 The Compassionate Organisation – Initial Words
5.6.2.2 Role Of Compassion
5.6.2.3 Compassion In The Family
5.6.2.4 Compassion In The Community Workforce
5.6.2.5 Compassion And Our Emotions
5.6.2.6 The Compassionate Organisation – Final Words
5.6.3 The Spiritual Organisation
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5.6.3.1 What Is Spirituality?
5.6.3.2 Clues To Spirituality
5.6.3.3 Spirituality And Sexuality
5.6.3.4 Vagueness Of Spirituality
5.6.3.5 A Little Quiz
5.6.3.6 Different Perspectives On Spirituality
5.6.3.7 Unpacking The Perspectives
5.6.3.8 So Is Spirituality Important To Humanity?
5.6.3.9 Control Of Spirituality
5.6.3.10 Immanence
5.6.3.11 Spirituality In Organisations
5.6.3.12 Spirituality – Conclusion
5.6.4 Recruitment
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5.6.4.1 Recruitment – Initial Words
5.6.4.2 How We Recruit
5.6.4.3 Traditional Method Of Recruitment
5.6.4.4 A Different Method Of Recruitment
5.6.4.5 Final Word On Recruitment
5.6.5 The Process Of Change In Organisations
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5.6.5.1 Change – Initial Words
5.6.5.2 The Family (Again)
5.6.5.3 Personal Change – From Within Or From Without
5.6.5.4 Change In The Family
5.6.5.5 Change In Organisations
5.6.5.6 Educating The Pillars
5.6.5.7 Change Management
5.6.6 Modelling
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5.6.6.1 Modelling – General
5.6.6.2 Coherence
5.6.6.3 Congruence
5.6.6.4 Acceptance Of Difference – Diversity
5.6.6.5 Power
5.6.6.6 Modelling – Conclusion
5.6.7 Security
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5.6.7.1 Security – General
5.6.7.2 Pay, Hours And Retention Of Staff
5.6.7.3 Other Factors
5.6.8 Size
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5.6.8.1 Size And Disconnect
5.6.8.2 Size And Economics?
5.6.8.3 Appropriate Size
5.6.9 The Playful Organisation
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5.6.9.1 The Playful Organisation- Initial Words
5.6.9.2 Learning Through Play
5.6.9.3 Playfulness
5.6.9.4 What Is A Playful Organisation?
5.6.9.5 Playfulness And Parenting
5.6.9.6 The Playful Organisation – Final Words
5.6.10 Organisational Matters - Conclusion
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5.6.10 Organisational Matters – Conclusion
Beauty in family support work!
Benefits of being unassertive........
What is a disingenuous room?
Under what conditions are we allowed work?
Could we have a Court for doing good?
Different perspectives on the good book?
Strength, wisdom and growth in adversity!
Inviting the sceptical to believe!
Our free democratic world.
Hidden Wisdom
Do we have a right to life?
Let's talk about mental illness........
What are our Root Foundations?
Is obedience a virtue?
Power and love in leadership.
Do we waste time growing?
The vagueness of spirituality.
How intelligent are we anyway?
Keeping ourselves fresh and enthusiastic
The less things change, the less they stay the same........?
Human be-ings or human do-ings?
Who gets paid what in our Education system?
It's not rocket science, you know!
Playfulness in our organisations.
The myth surrounding the moonshot!
Hard and easy problems for humanity.
Medication and our rising anxiety.
Are our lives worth living?
Good ideas becoming practice.
What happens when we think for ourselves?
Who's taking over who?
Sharing power with people who matter most.
The awesome power of the corporate world .......
Domination of the fast processors.
What's going on in his mind?
The façade of okay-ness in society.
A child's pain - physical or emotional?
How can prison staff protect children?
The right stuff for the job!
What kind of research would a suffering child do?
Cultural dimensions of Irishness.
How we become class-conscious!
Creativity and very hurt people.
The link between trauma and addiction.
Is there a Universal Theory of Change?
Self-organisation and radical action!
Creativity, growth and day-dreaming!
Experts’ opinions!
Primitives, savages ........ and anarchy!
The safety of unassertiveness.
Would you follow a losing team?
How we find what we find - intuitive prediction.
Is new always new?
Good news for money-conscious bureaucrats.
Waves in our family
Power to the People - Where the majority are not silent.
How can organisations be inclusive?
The wonderful world of darkness!
Who is holding whose suffering?
The world of the hidden child.
What does being radical really mean?
Can the family have global influence?
Creativity, growth and day dreaming!
Do we need to be led?
The joy of self-assessment..........
Link between responsibility and energy.
Self-awareness and our window of opportunity.
Is believing myth good for us?
Is the points system emotional abuse?
Beauty in family support work!
Benefits of being unassertive........
What is a disingenuous room?
Under what conditions are we allowed work?
Could we have a Court for doing good?
Different perspectives on the good book?
Strength, wisdom and growth in adversity!
Inviting the sceptical to believe!
Our free democratic world.
Hidden Wisdom
Do we have a right to life?
Let's talk about mental illness........
What are our Root Foundations?
Is obedience a virtue?
Power and love in leadership.
Do we waste time growing?
The vagueness of spirituality.
How intelligent are we anyway?
Keeping ourselves fresh and enthusiastic
The less things change, the less they stay the same........?
Human be-ings or human do-ings?
Who gets paid what in our Education system?
It's not rocket science, you know!
Playfulness in our organisations.
The myth surrounding the moonshot!
Hard and easy problems for humanity.
Medication and our rising anxiety.
Are our lives worth living?
Good ideas becoming practice.
What happens when we think for ourselves?
Who's taking over who?
Sharing power with people who matter most.
The awesome power of the corporate world .......
Domination of the fast processors.
What's going on in his mind?
The façade of okay-ness in society.
A child's pain - physical or emotional?
How can prison staff protect children?
The right stuff for the job!
What kind of research would a suffering child do?
Cultural dimensions of Irishness.
How we become class-conscious!
Creativity and very hurt people.
The link between trauma and addiction.
Is there a Universal Theory of Change?
Self-organisation and radical action!
Creativity, growth and day-dreaming!
Experts’ opinions!
Primitives, savages ........ and anarchy!
The safety of unassertiveness.
Would you follow a losing team?
How we find what we find - intuitive prediction.
Is new always new?
Good news for money-conscious bureaucrats.
Waves in our family
Power to the People - Where the majority are not silent.
How can organisations be inclusive?
The wonderful world of darkness!
Who is holding whose suffering?
The world of the hidden child.
What does being radical really mean?
Can the family have global influence?
Creativity, growth and day dreaming!
Do we need to be led?
The joy of self-assessment..........
Link between responsibility and energy.
Self-awareness and our window of opportunity.
Is believing myth good for us?
Is the points system emotional abuse?
Beauty in family support work!
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