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Change: What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation
by Jeffrey A. KottlerChange is often a mystery, one that baffles doctors, therapists, teachers, coaches, parents--and especially those of us who struggle to alter our own bad habits or make lasting improvements in our lives. Why do we suddenly change for the better after years of failed efforts? Why do some of us never escape our self-destructive behaviors, even when we desperately want to? What is it that most reliably and effectively produces growth, learning, and development that persist over time? In this vividly written volume, psychotherapist Jeffrey Kottler weaves together inspiring stories and the latest research, taking the reader on a fascinating exploration of human behavior while highlighting what does--and does not--lead to lasting change. Kottler illuminates our many efforts to change--to stop taking drugs, reduce dependencies, leave a destructive relationship, find new and more meaningful work, or adjust to a devastating accident or trauma. Readers are invited to explore key triggers such as hitting bottom, moments of clarity, the power of altruism and service, travel to new surroundings, reading or listening to stories, religious conversion, and much more. Kottler also explores why most changes don't last and what we can do to prevent relapses. Throughout the book, Kottler recounts stories of colleagues and patients--and even recalls episodes from his own life-often moving tales of remarkable, unexpected, and lasting transformation. He looks, for instance, at a young black basketball star, confined to a wheelchair for life after being shot four times, who turned his life around, becoming a scholar and a PhD. An intriguing glimpse into the complexity of the human psyche, Change will engage anyone who has ever struggled to alter a habit, enrich relationships, recover from disappointment or failure, strive for more meaningful and productive work, deal with anxiety, loneliness, fears, stress, and depression, or transform their lives in any kind of significant way.
Change: What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation
by Jeffrey A. KottlerChange is often a mystery, one that baffles doctors, therapists, teachers, coaches, parents--and especially those of us who struggle to alter our own bad habits or make lasting improvements in our lives. Why do we suddenly change for the better after years of failed efforts? Why do some of us never escape our self-destructive behaviors, even when we desperately want to? What is it that most reliably and effectively produces growth, learning, and development that persist over time? In this vividly written volume, psychotherapist Jeffrey Kottler weaves together inspiring stories and the latest research, taking the reader on a fascinating exploration of human behavior while highlighting what does--and does not--lead to lasting change. Kottler illuminates our many efforts to change--to stop taking drugs, reduce dependencies, leave a destructive relationship, find new and more meaningful work, or adjust to a devastating accident or trauma. Readers are invited to explore key triggers such as hitting bottom, moments of clarity, the power of altruism and service, travel to new surroundings, reading or listening to stories, religious conversion, and much more. Kottler also explores why most changes don't last and what we can do to prevent relapses. Throughout the book, Kottler recounts stories of colleagues and patients--and even recalls episodes from his own life-often moving tales of remarkable, unexpected, and lasting transformation. He looks, for instance, at a young black basketball star, confined to a wheelchair for life after being shot four times, who turned his life around, becoming a scholar and a PhD. An intriguing glimpse into the complexity of the human psyche, Change will engage anyone who has ever struggled to alter a habit, enrich relationships, recover from disappointment or failure, strive for more meaningful and productive work, deal with anxiety, loneliness, fears, stress, and depression, or transform their lives in any kind of significant way.
Change and Development: Issues of Theory, Method, and Application (Jean Piaget Symposia Series)
by Eric Amsel Ann Renninger K. Ann RenningerThis book and the symposium on which it was based were designed to cross the boundaries of subdiscipline and theoretical orientation to address four critical issues in understanding development: explanation of change and development; the nature and process of change; forms of variability in performance; and the promotion of change through application. The chapters suggest that change and development in target systems from cells to selves, may not be explainable, assessable, or promotable without careful reference to the context (social and otherwise) of the system, and that the process of change and development may involve variability of the system in addition to periods of stability. Together the chapters harken back to the spirit of the grand theory. Instead of proposing a grand theory, they provide an excellent foundation for considering the importance of an individual's (or particular group's) context and variability, and discussions to facilitate thinking about what still needs to be worked out.
Change and Development: Issues of Theory, Method, and Application (Jean Piaget Symposia Series)
by Eric Amsel K. Ann RenningerThis book and the symposium on which it was based were designed to cross the boundaries of subdiscipline and theoretical orientation to address four critical issues in understanding development: explanation of change and development; the nature and process of change; forms of variability in performance; and the promotion of change through application. The chapters suggest that change and development in target systems from cells to selves, may not be explainable, assessable, or promotable without careful reference to the context (social and otherwise) of the system, and that the process of change and development may involve variability of the system in addition to periods of stability. Together the chapters harken back to the spirit of the grand theory. Instead of proposing a grand theory, they provide an excellent foundation for considering the importance of an individual's (or particular group's) context and variability, and discussions to facilitate thinking about what still needs to be worked out.
Change and Exchange in Global Education: Learning with Chinese Stories of Interculturality (Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective)
by Mei Yuan Fred Dervin Sude Ning ChenThis unique book starts from the premise that students, scholars, and educators should be given access to a form of global education that is genuinely global. Using the notion of interculturality as change and exchange as a basis, the authors examine fifty discourse instruments (e.g. idioms, neologisms, slogans) related to what they call ‘Chinese stories of interculturality’. China, like other countries, has a rich and complex history of intercultural encounters and her engagement with the notion today, which shares similarities and differences with glocal discourses of interculturality, deserves to be unpacked and familiarized with. By so doing, digging into the intricacies of the Chinese and English languages, the reader is empowered to unthink, rethink and especially reflect on their own take on the important notion of interculturality.
Change and Maintaining Change (Nebraska Symposium on Motivation #65)
by Debra A. Hope Rick A. BevinsThis unique multidisciplinary volume examines the dynamics of behavioral change and its maintenance, from the individual to the wider domains of public policy. Coverage traces how change may be achieved, sustained, or derailed, as well as underlying neurobiological, behavioral, and social processes that fuel unhealthy and risky behaviors. Contributors offer a wide range of prevention and intervention strategies for supporting positive health habits from improved food choices to abstinence to compliance with treatment. These mechanisms are then transferred to the societal level in studies of evolving public perception of salient issues such as climate change, gender disparities, and drug policy. Included among the topics: Motivating change in addiction via modulation of the dark side.Changing drug use and other health-related behavior in vulnerable populations.Change and maintaining change in school cafeterias.Understanding social structural barriers and facilitators to behavioral change.Strategic communication research to illuminate and promote public engagement with climate change. A provocative rendering of motivation in its macro and micro dimensions, Change and Maintaining Change will interest researchers, practitioners, and clinicians interested in diverse areas such as smoking and other addictions, improvement and relapse in therapy, development and treatment of anxiety disorders, and social cognition and decision-making.
Change for the Better: Self-Help through Practical Psychotherapy (PDF)
by Elizabeth Wilde MccormickChange for the Better is for anyone interested in making lasting changes in both their inner and outer lives. It uses a conversational style to help readers identify their own learned patterns of thinking and relating that underlie and contribute to emotional suffering such depression, anxiety, phobia, eating disorders, relationship and psychosomatic problems. It shows readers how to reflect upon their difficulties, identify problems in relating, and stop and revise attitudes that are out of date. Mindfulness- based experiential exercises are incorporated throughout to help nourish self awareness and change. This bestselling book has helped many people find ways of dealing with everyday emotional difficulties, and also practitioners of psychotherapy work with their patients. It's continuing popularity has prompted this fourth edition which features up to date thinking and practice from Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy and from mindfulness. Elizabeth Wilde McCormick has been in practice as a psychotherapist for over thirty years. She is also a teacher, trainer and writer. She is a founder member of The Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy at Guy's Hospital, London, and the author of a number of best-selling self-help books.
Change for the Better: Self-Help through Practical Psychotherapy
by Elizabeth Wilde MccormickChange for the Better is for anyone interested in making lasting changes in both their inner and outer lives. It uses a conversational style to help readers identify their own learned patterns of thinking and relating that underlie and contribute to emotional suffering such depression, anxiety, phobia, eating disorders, relationship and psychosomatic problems. It shows readers how to reflect upon their difficulties, identify problems in relating, and stop and revise attitudes that are out of date. Mindfulness- based experiential exercises are incorporated throughout to help nourish self awareness and change. This bestselling book has helped many people find ways of dealing with everyday emotional difficulties, and also practitioners of psychotherapy work with their patients. It's continuing popularity has prompted this fourth edition which features up to date thinking and practice from Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy and from mindfulness. Elizabeth Wilde McCormick has been in practice as a psychotherapist for over thirty years. She is also a teacher, trainer and writer. She is a founder member of The Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy at Guy's Hospital, London, and the author of a number of best-selling self-help books.
Change for the Better: Personal development through practical psychotherapy
by Elizabeth Wilde MccormickThis bestselling book has helped thousands of people find ways of dealing with everyday emotional difficulties, and also supported practitioners and trainee psychotherapists in their work with patients. This fifth edition features up-to- date thinking and practice from Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy and includes new content on: · Trauma and Complex Trauma · Mindfulness · Relational mapping · Group Work. Further updates include a new foreword, updated references, and new chapter summaries and conclusions.
Change for the Better: Personal development through practical psychotherapy
by Elizabeth Wilde MccormickThis bestselling book has helped thousands of people find ways of dealing with everyday emotional difficulties, and also supported practitioners and trainee psychotherapists in their work with patients. This fifth edition features up-to- date thinking and practice from Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy and includes new content on: · Trauma and Complex Trauma · Mindfulness · Relational mapping · Group Work. Further updates include a new foreword, updated references, and new chapter summaries and conclusions.
Change in Psychoanalysis: An Analyst's Reflections on the Therapeutic Relationship (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)
by Chris JaenickeIn this clinically rich and deeply personal book, Chris Jaenicke demonstrates that the therapeutic process involves change in both the patient and the analyst, and that therapy will not have a lasting effect until the inevitability and depth of the analyst's involvement in the intersubjective field is better understood. In other words, in order to change, we must allow ourselves to be changed. This can happen within the sessions themselves, as one grasps the influence of and decenters from one's own subjectivity, with cumulative effects over the course of the treatment. Thus the process, limitations, and cure of psychotherapy are cocreated, without displacing the asymmetrical nature of roles and responsibility. Essentially, beyond the theories and techniques, it is the specificity of our subjectivity as it interacts with the patient's subjectivity which plays the central role in the therapeutic process.
Change in Psychoanalysis: An Analyst's Reflections on the Therapeutic Relationship (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)
by Chris JaenickeIn this clinically rich and deeply personal book, Chris Jaenicke demonstrates that the therapeutic process involves change in both the patient and the analyst, and that therapy will not have a lasting effect until the inevitability and depth of the analyst's involvement in the intersubjective field is better understood. In other words, in order to change, we must allow ourselves to be changed. This can happen within the sessions themselves, as one grasps the influence of and decenters from one's own subjectivity, with cumulative effects over the course of the treatment. Thus the process, limitations, and cure of psychotherapy are cocreated, without displacing the asymmetrical nature of roles and responsibility. Essentially, beyond the theories and techniques, it is the specificity of our subjectivity as it interacts with the patient's subjectivity which plays the central role in the therapeutic process.
A Change is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America
by Brian F. HarrisonGet your head out of your @*&. Snowflake. Stupid liberal. Ignorant conservative. There is much discussion today about the decline in civility in American politics. Couple this phenomenon with the fracturing and hardening of political attitudes, and one might wonder how deliberative democracy, much less political civility, can survive if we can't even talk to people with whom we disagree. Insults are thrown, feelings are hurt, and family and friends, at best, decide to avoid political discussions altogether. At worst, arguments cause social groups to break apart. How can deliberative democracy survive if we can't even speak to people with whom we disagree? As this book argues, we need a new way to discuss politics, one that encourages engagement and room for dissent. One way to approach this challenge is to consider how public opinion changes. By and large, public opinion is sticky and change occurs very slowly; one exception to this is the more recent and significant change in public opinion toward LGBTQ rights and marriage equality. The marriage equality movement is considered one of the great success stories of political advocacy, but why was it so successful? Brian F. Harrison argues that one of the most powerful reasons is that a broad range of marriage equality advocates were willing to engage in contentious and sometimes uncomfortable discussion about their opinions on the matter. They started everyday conversations that got people out of their echo chambers and encouraged them to start listening and thinking. But the question remains, if simple conversation can work in one arena, can it work in others? And how and where does one approach such conversation? Drawing from social psychology, communication studies, and political science, as well as personal narratives and examples, A Change is Gonna Come reflects on the last fifteen years of LGBTQ advocacy to propose practical ways to approach informal political conversation on a variety of contentious issues. This book seeks to answer the seemingly simple question: how can we be politically civil to each other again?
A Change is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America
by Brian F. HarrisonGet your head out of your @*&. Snowflake. Stupid liberal. Ignorant conservative. There is much discussion today about the decline in civility in American politics. Couple this phenomenon with the fracturing and hardening of political attitudes, and one might wonder how deliberative democracy, much less political civility, can survive if we can't even talk to people with whom we disagree. Insults are thrown, feelings are hurt, and family and friends, at best, decide to avoid political discussions altogether. At worst, arguments cause social groups to break apart. How can deliberative democracy survive if we can't even speak to people with whom we disagree? As this book argues, we need a new way to discuss politics, one that encourages engagement and room for dissent. One way to approach this challenge is to consider how public opinion changes. By and large, public opinion is sticky and change occurs very slowly; one exception to this is the more recent and significant change in public opinion toward LGBTQ rights and marriage equality. The marriage equality movement is considered one of the great success stories of political advocacy, but why was it so successful? Brian F. Harrison argues that one of the most powerful reasons is that a broad range of marriage equality advocates were willing to engage in contentious and sometimes uncomfortable discussion about their opinions on the matter. They started everyday conversations that got people out of their echo chambers and encouraged them to start listening and thinking. But the question remains, if simple conversation can work in one arena, can it work in others? And how and where does one approach such conversation? Drawing from social psychology, communication studies, and political science, as well as personal narratives and examples, A Change is Gonna Come reflects on the last fifteen years of LGBTQ advocacy to propose practical ways to approach informal political conversation on a variety of contentious issues. This book seeks to answer the seemingly simple question: how can we be politically civil to each other again?
Change Leadership in Emerging Markets: The Ten Enablers Model (Future of Business and Finance)
by Caren Brenda Scheepers Sonja SwartBased on neuroscience research, this book presents and demonstrates a 'Ten Enablers' model as a framework to help change leaders successfully lead and manage change. It focuses on the execution of change processes within volatile and challenging emerging markets with high growth potential. The book first presents the organizational development and change research on which the model is based, and discusses the basic neuroscience principles. It then introduces a systematic model of the ten enablers, taking readers through the process of change, from considering the ethos prior to embarking on it, including engagement of stakeholders, up to the final phase, where change leaders exit the process or the organization. It highlights this circular process through several step-by-step illustrations, supported by examples from emerging markets. Further, it includes neuroscience research and principles to help leaders understand and manage change in themselves and others. This well-researched and practical book is a valuable resource for students and professionals alike.
Change Management: Veränderungsprozesse erfolgreich gestalten - Mitarbeiter mobilisieren
by Kerstin Stolzenberg Krischan HeberleIn Zeiten von Fusionen, Sparmaßnahmen und Stellenabbau sind einschneidende Veränderungen für Unternehmen an der Tagesordnung. Change Manager sind diejenigen, die Veränderungen begleiten und gestalten. Häufig fokussieren sie fachlich-strukturelle Aspekte einer Veränderung. Doch viele Projekte scheitern daran, dass grundlegende Faktoren nicht bedacht werden: Wie holt man betroffene Mitarbeiter ins Boot und motiviert sie, Veränderungen mitzutragen? Erfahrene Organisationsentwickler zeigen in vier praxisbezogenen Schritten wie Sie fachlich und psychologisch erfolgreich gestalten: Vision und Ziele, Kommunikation, Beteiligung, Qualifizierung.
Change Management: Veränderungsprozesse erfolgreich gestalten - Mitarbeiter mobilisieren. Vision, Kommunikation, Beteiligung, Qualifizierung
by Kerstin Stolzenberg Krischan HeberleViele Veränderungsprojekte in Unternehmen scheitern daran, dass die erfolgskritische Frage des Change Managements ignoriert wird: Wie bindet man Mitarbeiter ein? In dem Buch zeigen erfahrene Organisationsentwickler die Bedeutung von Vision und Ziel, Kommunikation, Beteiligung und Qualifizierung für erfolgreiche Veränderungsprozesse. Die Autoren liefern konkrete Handlungsanleitungen, detailliert beschriebene Vorgehensweisen, Ablaufschemata, Gesprächsleitfäden und Checklisten. Die 3. Auflage wurde komplett überarbeitet und um weitere Tools ergänzt.
Change Management: Successfully Shaping Change Processes – Mobilizing Employees. Vision, Communication, Participation, Qualification
by Kerstin Stolzenberg Krischan HeberleViele Veränderungsprojekte in Unternehmen scheitern daran, dass die erfolgskritische Frage des Change Managements ignoriert wird: Wie bindet man Mitarbeiter ein? In dem Buch zeigen erfahrene Organisationsentwickler die Bedeutung von Vision und Ziel, Kommunikation, Beteiligung und Qualifizierung für erfolgreiche Veränderungsprozesse. Die Autoren liefern konkrete Handlungsanleitungen, detailliert beschriebene Vorgehensweisen, Ablaufschemata, Gesprächsleitfäden und Checklisten. Die 3. Auflage wurde komplett überarbeitet und um weitere Tools ergänzt.
Change Management: Veränderungsprozesse erfolgreich gestalten - Mitarbeiter mobilisieren. Vision, Kommunikation, Beteiligung, Qualifizierung
by Kerstin Stolzenberg Krischan HeberleViele Veränderungsprojekte in Unternehmen scheitern daran, dass die erfolgskritische Frage des Change Managements ignoriert wird: Wie bindet man Mitarbeiter ein? In dem Buch zeigen erfahrene Organisationsentwickler die Bedeutung von Vision und Ziel, Kommunikation, Beteiligung und Qualifizierung für erfolgreiche Veränderungsprozesse. Die Autoren liefern konkrete Handlungsanleitungen, detailliert beschriebene Vorgehensweisen, Ablaufschemata, Gesprächsleitfäden und Checklisten. Die 3. Auflage wurde komplett überarbeitet und um weitere Tools ergänzt.
Change Management and the Human Factor: Advances, Challenges and Contradictions in Organizational Development
by Frank E. P. Dievernich Kim Oliver Tokarski Jie GongChange management and organizational development is unthinkable without people. Human beings form its core as both subjects and objects of change. This volume attempts to cut through to the core of change management, to the people that stand at its heart and focuses on their intrinsic role in change management and organizational development. Topics covered in this volume encompass the human element within organizational change, how this impacts roles, dynamics of team interaction and affects the workplace in teaching and learning settings. It also addresses resistance to institutional and organizational change and the central role that agile management plays in this process.
Change Management bei der Einführung neuer IT-Technologien: Mitarbeiter ins Boot holen – mit angewandter Psychologie (essentials)
by Sieglind ChiesSieglind Chies vermittelt, dass Einführungen neuer IT-Technologien je nach Anzahl der veränderten Arbeits- oder Prozessschritte als Veränderungsprojekte betrachtet werden sollten, da sie häufig Widerstand innerhalb der Belegschaft mit sich bringen. Für dessen Bewältigung ist es sinnvoll, nicht nur technologische, sondern auch arbeitspsychologische Maßnahmen zu treffen. Nach den Phasen, die der Einführung eines neuen ERP-Systems vorausgehen, erläutert die Autorin ein einfaches arbeitspsychologisches Modell, das zeigt, wie Mitarbeitende auf die anstehende Veränderung vorbereitet werden können. Anhand von konkreten Beispielen aus dem IT-Kontext erklärt sie, wie sich dieses Modell im Rahmen einer ERP-Einführung anwenden lässt. Ergänzend dazu stellt die Autorin weiterführende psychologische Grundlagen kurz und prägnant vor.
Change Management Praxisfälle: Veränderungsschwerpunkte Organisation, Team, Individuum
by Lutz von Rosenstiel, Elisabeth von Hornstein and Siegfried AugustinUnter Change Management sind meist bereichsübergreifende Veränderungsprozesse in Organisationen zu verstehen. Ob der Fokus klassisch bei einer Restrukturierung liegt, die Teamebene oder die Personalentwicklung betrifft, der Band bietet für jeden dieser Veränderungsprozesse die passenden Praxis-Tools: mit Ablaufschemata, Gesprächsleitfäden und Checklisten. Dabei gehen die Autoren besonders auf die Kernbereiche von Organisationen ein, die sich häufig als „Nadelöhr“ für den Erfolg herauskristallisieren und deshalb erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit benötigen.
Change Management. Veränderungsprozesse erfolgreich gestalten - Mitarbeiter mobilisieren
by Kerstin Stolzenberg Krischan HeberleIn Zeiten von Fusionen, Sparmaßnahmen und Stellenabbau sind einschneidende Veränderungen für Unternehmen an der Tagesordnung. Change Manager sind diejenigen, die Veränderungen begleiten und gestalten. Häufig fokussieren sie fachlich-strukturelle Aspekte einer Veränderung. Doch viele Projekte scheitern daran, dass grundlegende Faktoren nicht bedacht werden: Wie holt man betroffene Mitarbeiter ins Boot und motiviert sie, Veränderungen mitzutragen? Erfahrene Organisationsentwickler zeigen in vier praxisbezogenen Schritten wie Sie fachlich und psychologisch erfolgreich gestalten: Vision und Ziele, Kommunikation, Beteiligung, Qualifizierung.
Change Matters: Making a difference in education and training
by Geoff ScottWhile many books address the 'what' of change in education, this addresses the 'how'. The pressure for continuous adaptation and innovation in education is relentless, yet there is more failure in implementation of change than success. These failures are damaging to staff and students, as well as costly. Change Matters offers a practical guide to change management for teachers and administrators across all education sectors and for training managers in workplace settings.Change Matters assists educators to develop their abilities to manage their own change projects, and also to help their organisations to manage their overall improvement and innovation activities. Geoff Scott draws on successful experience to create a framework for the educational change process. He shows how to initiate, develop, implement and evaluate a new learning program, and how to manage continuous quality improvement and innovation at the organisational level. The need for leadership is assessed, and the particular circumstances of workplace trainers are discussed. The book is illustrated with case studies and reflective exercises which can be used individually or with other educators.'An eminently readable and practical guide for those who want to make sure that the educational changes they attempt really do make a difference for their students. Highly recommended.' - Professor Michael Fullan, Dean, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, and author of The New Meaning of Educational Change and of the What's Worth Fighting For trilogy with Andy Hargreaves.
Change Matters: Making a difference in education and training
by Geoff ScottWhile many books address the 'what' of change in education, this addresses the 'how'. The pressure for continuous adaptation and innovation in education is relentless, yet there is more failure in implementation of change than success. These failures are damaging to staff and students, as well as costly. Change Matters offers a practical guide to change management for teachers and administrators across all education sectors and for training managers in workplace settings.Change Matters assists educators to develop their abilities to manage their own change projects, and also to help their organisations to manage their overall improvement and innovation activities. Geoff Scott draws on successful experience to create a framework for the educational change process. He shows how to initiate, develop, implement and evaluate a new learning program, and how to manage continuous quality improvement and innovation at the organisational level. The need for leadership is assessed, and the particular circumstances of workplace trainers are discussed. The book is illustrated with case studies and reflective exercises which can be used individually or with other educators.'An eminently readable and practical guide for those who want to make sure that the educational changes they attempt really do make a difference for their students. Highly recommended.' - Professor Michael Fullan, Dean, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, and author of The New Meaning of Educational Change and of the What's Worth Fighting For trilogy with Andy Hargreaves.