Forbidden Agendas: Strategic Action in Groups

by Antony Williams (Author)

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  Paperback
  1991

  $4.37

  Forbidden Agendas presents a new approach to groupwork for consultants, therapists, psychodramatists and teachers - anyone who works with groups. The book is specially written for the person who is called in when a group or organization is in trouble, or who is asked to run a group with special needs. Antony Williams draws on his experience as a family therapist, teacher and psychodramatist to provide safe action processes suitable for groups and organizations where new solutions are required. He shows that the use of strategic action methods creates a space where spontaneity can thrive, and where group leaders can chip away at the forbidden agendas , the invisible loyalties that prevent group members from behaving in ways that make them happy. Sometimes these loyalties have been formed long ago, pacts kept even with the dead; sometimes they are current, attempting to protect or obey other people in the group. The book is designed to build on the leader's practical skills of warming-up a group for change, and is studded with examples, exercises, and alternative ways of encountering the challenges of change in groups.