Resource-ful Consulting: Working with Presence and Identity in Consulting to Change

Drawing on the authors’ experiences of working with the professional development of consultants and change-agents over many years, this book provides an asset-based approach to consulting, where the resources to work at this stuckness come from the way that the authors think about and use themselves: their Identity and their Presence. The authors propose that developing capacities to recognize and analyze who they bring into their consulting, and how they bring themselves is central to resource-ful practice. Without a skill-ful integration of these resources, the potential for change can be compromised.

In handbook format, the book is structured in seven sections: Potential Space, Identity, Presence, Role Space, Practice, Change, and Future Developments. Focusing on practitioners’ preoccupations, the authors offer models, theories, tales and activities to help describe and analyze your Identity and your Presence. They tell stories which question how your Practice supports or compromises change, and suggest playful experimentation as a route to Change, and the development of a more resource-ful approach to your consulting practice.