This book is a collection of preliminary reports from the systems-centered training (SCT) field, demonstrating its value, and introducing the ideas. It covers a range of applications that represent the SCT methods and the systems thinking that underlies SCT practice.

M. Agazarian, Yvonne

Foreword -- Introduction -- Overview of the Theory of Living Human Systems and its Systems-Centered Practice -- The Systems-Centered Coach: Examples from Our Work -- Role, Goal and Context in an Organizational Intervention -- From Complaints to Strategies: Using an Agency's All-Staff Meetings as a Learning Lab for Understanding System Dynamics -- Opening up the Circle: Next Steps in Group Work for Clinical Pastoral Educators -- Red, Yellow, Green: Modifying Communication Patterns in an Elementary School System -- Functional Subgrouping in the Classroom: A Powerful Tool for Learning -- Meetings that Work: Making Common Sense "Common"