Larryboy, a heroic cucumber with plunger ears, comes to the rescue when the vegetable residents of Bumblyburg come down with bad cases of envy from slurping Slushees tainted by the diabolical Emperor of Envy.

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.

This is not a book geared to one branch of activity - like gestalt group therapy, or organization development, or applications to management. The papers assembled here embrace a whole variety of practice settings and areas of professional endeavour: organisations, training groups, communities, national groupings, life - focus groups, as well as (of course) the special case of two people working together, in the relational fields of group facilitator-participant, or of consultant-consultee, or of teacher-student, all or which are fields within fields.

Gaffney, a Gestalt therapist, trainer, supervisor, OSD consultant, and lecturer in cross-cultural management, presents peer-reviewed published papers on applications of field theory (Lewin, Goldstein, Smuts, and the Gestalt psychologists) to individual therapy, group work in various settings, organizations, and society.

Hopeless. Desperate. Alone. God is working in the midst of our messy, doubt-filled and at times very bad life experiences, but that's not always clear to us. Scripts of Hope and Restoration is a ministry-based collection featuring powerful scripts of testimony to God's grace, as well as celebrations of His promise of healing and renewal. Songs of Hope and Restoration, from Lillenas Music, provides a powerful choral companion-piece to each dramatic script.