This book provides a comprehensive view of the application of Relational Gestalt theory to Organisation Development and change interventions in organisations. Uncertainty and frequent change are the hallmark of our times. In the field of Organisational Development and Change, fixed methodologies no longer adequately address the uncertainty and uniqueness of today's more complex change situations and more adaptive approaches to change are needed. Gestalt is a relational, dialogic, and emergent approach which means that it views individuals and organisations as embedded in their context, dependent on, and emerging from within a web of relationships and interactions. As such, Gestalt offers a transformative, integral and bespoke methodology for working with this complexity. This approach supports practitioners to attend to their presence, seek out the most pressing issues and mobilise for sustainable change. 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 is at the leading-edge of Gestalt theory and application in organisational settings.

This book is for group practitioners, people who live and work in and/or manage, lead or facilitate groups in any and all ways. It is especially for those practitioners who share my dissatisfaction with the socio-cultural limitations of traditional group theories and models, and who want to join me at the cutting edge of our work in an increasingly multicultural social and organizational environment. This book uses an approach called "intersectionality." According to McCall, intersectionality is a research methodology of studying "the relationships among multiple dimensions and modalities of social relationships and subject formations." Accordingly, I introduce philosophy, religion, cross-cultural studies, field theory, social psychology and group theory and all the while weaving my personal and professional experience and practice into the rich patterns that emerge, giving them depth and substance.