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Our lives are increasingly spent online. Work, friends, games, reading - all are increasingly digital and virtual. Google Glass is next. How are these extraordinary changes affecting our brains, our minds and the way we think, talk and relate? Parents, scientists, doom-mongers and sociologists are among the many people speculating about what is going to become of us as we become increasingly absorbed by electronic media and ever more remote f...

We keep things inside, those of us who live in the Midwest. Anyone who lives out in the open where little stands between you and the horizon knows this. It's all sky. It's infinitely blue in summer and hammering gray in winter. So you keep your head down and your thoughts inside. Yet the landscape is haunted with memories. The memories of lives lived having kept everything inside. They seep out of us like a spring or the fog and attach thems...

We live in powerful times. A rolling crisis that is both real (there are consequences), conceptual (horribly complex to grasp in its multiple dimensions) and existential (shaking the inner foundations of our worlds). These emergencies are not distinct: they are all connected and now hunt in packs. But it is the existential emergency, the human consequences of living in powerful times, that now dominates the scene. That is the subject of this...

These tales of encounters between a therapist and his clients, reveal why many people turn to therapy, what they might look for and what they might find. It also shows how Buddhist practice/principles can inform psychotherapy. It is written for anyone training or practising as a psychotherapist, or considering therapy as a client.

Sooner or later, most creative people get stuck. This book offers a map for anyone who is feeling stuck and will help you find your way into creative expression. The authors offer creative tasks and suggestions with ideas and structures to get you going.

For anyone who's ever been a tourist, Counter-Tourism is an invitation to completely transform our experience of the heritage-tourism industry and its many sites (castles, National Trust properties, etc.). It provides a set of powerful lenses, designed to bend a whole world of conventional tourism into a spiral of new perspectives and experiences. Beneath those simple sounding stories in the Visitor Guide and behind the locked gates marked PRI...

An up-to-date introduction to Systems Thinking and review of its applications in business, government and Quantum Mechanics

20 contemporary approaches to the study and experience of embodied awareness.

For 25 years, the Zap club hosted ground-breaking artistic events in Brighton and beyond, starting with its radical music and open-mic nights in the 1980s.For two years in the early days, Roy Bayfield (later to become a noted walker, mythogeographer, performance artist and university administrator) made an art out of his job as cleaner at the club. Here he offers us an "eclectic sweep-up of everything that was left lying around".On one level, ...

Our money system IS the 'Missing Link'. We tend to assume that we must have a single, monopolistic currency, funded through bank debt, enforced by a central bank. But we don't need any such thing! In fact, the present system is outdated, brittle and unfit for purpose (witness the eurozone crisis). Like any other monoculture, it's profitable at first but ultimately a recipe for economic and environmental disaster.The alternative is a monetary '...

The 'Little Heresies' seminars - this is the second publishedcollection of the talks given at them - provide an importantpublic platform to debate the future of public services.Now more than ever it seems vital to challenge the 'receivedwisdom', 'zombie thinking' and old, tired and outdated habitsand practices that continue to infest important aspects of ourpublic services. For, as the authors demonstrate, what appear tobe well-intentioned pol...

Our money system is a toxic left-over from a time when theft on a grand scale - war and empire-building - was glorified. Today, we need to move on from a system that allows and encourages the worst in us (and the worst among us) to prosper.We take the money system for granted.• We accept that banks have the right to create, rent out and then destroy money.• We accept that banks have a right to charge us (and our government) interest on this mo...

Walking and movement artists often stumble when they describe the modes and registers of perception and expression they adopt in their practice. The attempt to represent their experience can end in a kind of somatic soup. Crab & Bee eschew the soup and, in this little book of poems and essays − the prequel to their forthcoming book The Pattern (2020) - they give us clear hints of where and how they find and make meaning in their work. They tel...

In this persuasively argued booklet, Oshry establishes that, despite frequent references to paradigms in management and organization literature, there are no scientific paradigms in this field (as defined by Thomas Kuhn in his landmark essay on the subject "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"). He goes on to make the case for the Organic System Framework (OSF) being a legitimate candidate for paradigm status.

Barry Oshry has a lifetime's experience of working with social and organizational systems.Here he explains how we can understand - and avoid - the "catastrophes" that continue to occur when one culture meets another - when demagogues sell us messages of superiority or purity in the face of cultural difference.Algeria ~ Armenia ~ Bosnia ~ Cambodia ~ Congo ~ Darfur ~ East Timor ~ The Holdomor ~ TheHolocaust ~ Myanmar ~ Palestine ~ Rwanda...He ex...

Every place has its stories. Sometimes those stories get tarmacked and concreted over. This is nowhere more true than in Milton Keynes. Writer and walker Phil Smith has walked Milton Keynes to find its missing stories. Here he gives Milton Keynes a new myth of itself. Readers can take the book onto the streets and walk or cycle K's journey.

Before the Curtain Opens' distils a lifetime's lived experience of the Alexander Technique into an engaging and vivid introduction to what becomes a holistic philosophy of performance.

This collection of intimate reflections by artist Ernesto Pujol brings together his experiences as a monk, performance artist, social choreographer and educator. They serve as a provocation, walkers' manifesto and teaching guide for walking as mindful cultural activism. An inspirational text for artists, art students and anyone who loves to walk.

It's well known that human beings are allergic to change. This is nowhere more true than of human beings in organizations. Organization Development initiatives, Leadership Development programs, and Business Transformation plans all founder too often on our resistance and reluctance, on the tendency of people and things to slip back to how they were before. For a long time, Systems Thinkers in general (and Power+Systems pioneer Barry Oshry in p...

Economies of Life argues cogently that there is a 'default assumption that there is only one economy in our lives - the economy which is the one based on money. Our position is that there are many economies, of which the one based on money is just one, and that they all contribute to the health and sustainability of our shared lives'. To extend this thinking, money is the currency of trade, and art is the currency of experience. In his collec...