Gestalt Practice - by Mary Ann Rainey & Brenda B Jones (Paperback)

About the Book

Gestalt Practice is an important read for organization development consultants, executive coaches, corporate and HR leaders/managers, as well as students who want to learn how to bring about meaningful change using Gestalt theory and methods.

Book Synopsis

Gestalt Practice is an important and transformative read for organization development consultants, executive coaches, corporate leaders/managers, HR professionals, community and institutional leaders, as well as students who want to learn from experts how to effectively bring about meaningful/sustainable change using Gestalt theory and methods.

Review Quotes

"Gestalt Practice: Living and Working in Pursuit of wHolism is a timely intervention, appropriate to the moment and just what those in leadership - and others inside organizations - need today."

Solomon Tsenoli

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly

Parliament of the Republic of South Africa

"Mary Ann Rainey and Brenda B. Jones and their talented colleagues give change agents, organizational development practitioners and coaches a tremendous gift: a deep and powerful look at Gestalt practice as it was in the past, and how it has evolved to meet the needs of people and organizations in the 21^st century. The themes in this book are relevant for all of us: focus on awareness, never lose sight of the entire system, welcome resistance and move gracefully toward a future that is better than today."

Annie McKee, PhD

Senior Fellow

Director, PennCLO Executive Doctoral Program,

Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

Author of How to be Happy at Work: The Power of Purpose, Hope

and Friendship. Harvard Business Review

About the Author

Brenda B. Jones, MSc, is an Organizational Consultant based in the US, with consulting projects in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. She is president of The Lewin Center, on faculty of the American University Key Executive Leadership Development Program and past president of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science and the AU/NTL Master's Program in OD. Brenda received the OD Network's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. She is co-editor of The NTL Handbook for Organization Development and Change (2014, 2nd edition). Mary Ann Rainey, Ph.D. is an executive coach and consultant with a global client base. Her leadership experience includes corporate Vice President and Vice-City Manager. Her work in Gestalt involves international co-chairman roles and co-founder of the International Gestalt Organization and Leadership Development (iGOLD(R)) Program. Her teaching includes Adjunct Faculty in the Executive MBA Program at Loyola University Chicago, faculty in the Strategic Agility and Innovation Program sponsored by Yale School of Management and Yale New Haven Hospital, and Dean of the NTL OD Certificate Programme UK. She has numerous publications.