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.