Resources
Books
An Emergent Approach to Organisational Development
Relational Organisational Gestalt
Gestalt has long been at the forefront of psychological approaches applied to Organisational Development and change in organisations. This book offers a radically relational approach that is accessible to coaches, consultants, facilitators, managers and other OD practitioners.
Real and sustainable solutions have to emerge from the bottom up and be based on dialogue, co-operation as well as embrace the messiness of human nature. Gestalt has at its heart the notion of use-of-self as instrument which allows practitioners to be responsive to emergent issues and situations. Relational Organisational Gestalt therefore offers a radical approach to leading-edge theory and application of Gestalt in organisational settings. This book explores key relational Gestalt skills and methods such as inquiry into here-and-now embodied experience, identification and engagement in dialogue and finally, embedding and sustaining change in the field. Each chapter offers guidance regards application and suggests experiential exercises.
Real and sustainable solutions have to emerge from the bottom up and be based on dialogue, co-operation as well as embrace the messiness of human nature. Gestalt has at its heart the notion of use-of-self as instrument which allows practitioners to be responsive to emergent issues and situations. Relational Organisational Gestalt therefore offers a radical approach to leading-edge theory and application of Gestalt in organisational settings. This book explores key relational Gestalt skills and methods such as inquiry into here-and-now embodied experience, identification and engagement in dialogue and finally, embedding and sustaining change in the field. Each chapter offers guidance regards application and suggests experiential exercises.
General
The Relational Matrix Model of Supervision
This paper proposes a matrix model applicable to a wide range of supervisory relationships and settings; therapeutic and organisational. The emphasis is upon a ‘relational’ approach and how supervision practice is viewed through that lens.
The Process of Presence
Who has presence and how can we recognise it? How does it feel to be present orwith someone with presence? Can we learn to be more present? This article discusses some of these issues and aims to provide a more tangible perspective on presence.
Psychotherapy
Ethics, dialogue and small acts of great significance,
Chidiac, M-A., Denham-Vaughan, S., Festschrift for G. Salonia, Avere A Cuore, Edited by Conte, V., Sichera, A., published by San Paolo Press, (2018). This paper discusses the dialogic principles of confirmation and committment to dialogue.
SOS: A relational orientation towards social inclusion,
Denham-Vaughan, S. and Chidiac, M-A. Mental Health and Social Inclusion, (2013) 17, (2), 100–107. This paper describes the contextual formulation of the term "Relational" used by the co-founders of Relational Change.
Coaching and Organisational
An Organisational Self,
by Chidiac, M.A. and Denham-Vaughan, S. An Organisational Self, British Gestalt Journal, (2009), 18, (1), 42-49. This paper shows how the notion of "self as process" can be usefully applied to work with an Organisation or Community.
Creating a Coaching Culture: Relational Field Coaching,
by M-A Chidiac – published in Development and Learning in Organizations Journal, 2013.
A Gestalt Perspective of Coaching: A Case for Being More Yourself,
by M-A Chidiac – published in Development and Learning in Organizations Journal, 2008.