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Skinner Releasing Technique: A Movement and Dance Practice by Manny Emslie 9781913743291
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.96Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), created by Joan Skinner, is a somatic movement, dance and creative practice with a core underlying principle of releasing blocked energy, held tension and habitual... -
Transformative Innovation in Education: a Playbook for Pragmatic Visionaries by Graham Leicester 9781909470101
Booksplease Price: £13.45In 2009, the first edition of Transformative Innovation set out a blueprint for educational reform in Scotland. This second edition incorporates the results and practical experience of introducing... -
Covert: A Handbook: 30 Movement Meditations for Resisting Invasion by Melanie Kloetzel 9781913743154
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.45'Covert' responds to three converging afflictions in society: our growing fixation with spending time looking at a screen the proportion of our lives we spend sitting/lying down, as a result the... -
Deserted Devices and Wasted Fences: Everyday Technologies in Extreme Circumstances by Dani Ploeger
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £9.70How can we imagine a technologized life that deviates from globalized norms and standardization and from our collective obsession with endless growth? In 'Deserted Devices and Wasted Fences',... -
Ways to Wander the Gallery: 2018 by Clare Qualmann 9781911193517
Booksplease Price: £14.6425 intriguing ideas for different ways to walk in and beyond an art gallery - for gallery-goers, walkers, performance artists, students and academics. The book asks you to reconsider your walked... -
walk write (repeat) by Sonia Overall 9781913743185
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £11.05This is a manual for creative writers, but the approaches and exercises can readily be adapted by practitioners working in other media. All of the exercises included here have been foot-tested. Use... -
What if Women Designed the City?: 33 leverage points to make your city work better for women and girls by May East 9781913743871
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.99Dr. May East here explores the set of symbiotic relationships between women and the cities they live and work in. She considers how cities would look if they were designed by women, and how that... -
Beyond Survival: Practical Hope in Powerful Times: 2020 by Graham Leicester 9781913743031
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £5.67This feels like a moment of truth. For many years people have been warning that we live in extraordinary times, a change of age not just an age of change. International Futures Forum (IFF) has been... -
Nothing Special: Experiencing Fear and Vulnerability in Daily Life by Mary Booker 9781909470804
Booksplease Price: £16.22Mary Booker draws on her autobiographical writing, movement art, poetry, photography and her dramatherapy skills. She explores the roots of vulnerability and fear in her own life, then uses four... -
Beyond Threat by Nelisha Wickremasinghe
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.45How the hidden drives and motivations of the Trimotive Braindetermine our behaviour at work -- and what we can do about it. Unless we are in physical danger few of us think we are living 'under... -
Bonelines by Phil Smith 9781913743062
Booksplease Price: £14.04In their 'Guidebook for an Armchair Pilgrimage', authors Phil Smith, Tony Whitehead and photographer John Schott lead us on a ‘virtual’ journey to explore difference and change on their way to an... -
Stone Talks by Alyson Hallett 9781911193555
Booksplease Price: £13.45Stone Talks brings together poems and four talks/essays by noted poet Alyson Hallett on the subject of stones, rocks, somatics and our relationship with our environment. The book invites us to listen... -
Nature Connection: A handbook for therapy and self-exploration by Margaret Kerr 9781913743123
Booksplease Price: £12.50This compact handbook of nature practices can be used by anyone who wants to deepen their connection with the rest of nature. It is also designed to be used by people who work with others in personal... -
Terminalian Drift by Jerry Gordon 9781913743406
Booksplease Price: £20.59"Water only knows how to flow. It never ceases. Even glaciers thousands of years old are not a stilling of water. A chilling, but not a stilling. The city is likewise, imposing its own flows of seep... -
Ten Things to Do in a Conceptual Emergency by Graham Leicester 9780955768163
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.84If the idea of a conceptual emergency was wacky and original when it was taken up in the first edition of this booklet, it now appears inescapable. Brought on by the global credit crunch and the... -
Ready for Anything: Designing Resilience for a Transforming World by Anthony M. Hodgson 9781908009470
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.45The Mess What kind of trouble is our species and our planet in? What's likely to happen next? How can we think creatively about and understand the interconnected problems (climate, health, energy,... -
Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Christian Wahl
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.00This is a 'Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures - and how to put... -
Satish Kumar: Abundant Love by Jagdish Rattanani 9781913743703
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £11.46Much has been written by and about Satish Kumar - peace pilgrim, co-founder of Schumacher College, and longtime editor of Resurgence magazine. A monk at the age of nine, and now a world-renowned... -
Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency by Sarah Ichioka 9781913743260
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £22.05Regenerative design and architecture What will it take to restore balance to our world, repair past injustices, and support future generations' survival? Reaching beyond 'sustainability',... -
Being with Others: Curses, spells and scintillations by Nelisha Wickremasinghe
Booksplease Price: £15.85Many of our significant relationships are based not on trust, respect and growth but on an unconscious compulsion to deny our own problems, flaws and fears. We see the consequences at home and at... -
Nine Ways of Seeing a Body by Sandra Reeve
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £10.43This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the... -
Guidebook for an Armchair Pilgrimage: 2019 by John Schott 9781911193593
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.45Phil Smith (Crabman/Mythogeography) and Tony Whitehead join forces with master photographer John Schott to lead readers on a `virtual' journey to explore difference and change on their way to an... -
Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns by Nora Bateson 9781909470965
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £14.25This is a collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson and president of the... -
Dancing at the Edge: Competence, Culture and Organization in the 21st Century by Maureen O'Hara 9781911193678
Booksplease Price: £13.45In his 1980 essay, The World of Tomorrow and the Person of Tomorrow, the psychologist Carl Rogers contemplated the future. He described those who would usher in this new era as people with the... -
the garden of equal delights: the practice and principles of forest gardening by Anni Kelsey 9781911193746
Booksplease Price: £15.85Forest gardens are much in the news as an exemplary form of resilient, sustainable, small-scale agriculture and plenty has been written about them already. But little has been written about the role... -
How to be feral: Movement practices to re-wild your body Claire Loussouarn 9781913743918
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £15.85In 'How to be feral', Claire Loussouarn invites us to challenge our preconceived notions of how our body should move. Through a series of practices and reflections, she encourages us to disrupt our... -
Responsibility and Public Services by Richard Davis 9781909470835
Booksplease Price: £19.23Richard Davis is a founding member of Vanguard Consulting in the UK, and has worked with John Seddon for over 25 years. His was a significant role in developing the Vanguard method, which has allowed... -
Soul Moves Sheila Ryan 9781913743970
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £11.46Soul was everywhere in the 60s and 70s. Soul music, soul food, soul sister. I first knew soul in church, where it meant being damned, more or less. Soul music is more about getting on down than... -
The Ancient Device Simon O'Sullivan 9781917251013
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.25'The Ancient Device' is the story of four somehow familiar, rather dishevelled, sometimes sympathetic characters: Hare, Fox-Owl, Ribbonhead and King John.We meet this dysfunctional and longing band... -
Goblin Queens and Qualia Knights: A Guide to Xisting in a Time of Catastrophes Phil Smith 9781913743932
Booksplease Price: £15.69A little book of comfort for people who are troubled by the way that life is being hollowed out by digital media, populist politics, hyper-capitalism, AI and so on. It suggests ways to be yourself,... -
Growing Wings on the Way: Systems Thinking for Messy Situations by Rosalind Armson 9781908009364
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £19.00You may be: - trying to fix the healthcare system in your country... - dealing with family break-up... - exploring change - and making it happen - in your organisation... - worrying about how to look... -
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Systems Thinking in the Public Sector: The Failure of the Reform Regime.... and a Manifesto for a Better Way by John Seddon 9780955008184 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £3.40The free market has become the accepted model for the public sector. Politicians on all sides compete to spread the gospel. And so, in the UK and elsewhere, there's been massive investment in public...