My inspiration comes from a variety of disciplines and sources. In particular:
Knwoledge theory and human beings as bodily creatures
- Arnold Cornelis: De logica van het gevoel; stabiliteitslagen in de cultuur als nesteling der emoties
- Gregory Bateson: Mind and Nature; A Necessary Unit
- Frans de Waal: Our inner ape
- Humberto Maturana & Francisco Varela: The tree of knowledge; biological roots of human understanding
- Antonio Damasio: Self comes to mind; constructing the conscious brain
Sociology, cultural anthropology and social psychology
- Eduard T. Hall: The dance of life
- Karl Weick: Sensemaking in organizations.
- Ralph Stacey: Strategic management and organisational dynamics
- Alain de Vulpian: Listening to ordinary people
- Martin Buber: I and Thou
Systems thinking and complexity theory
- Peter Checkland: Soft Systems Methodology in action
- Peter Senge: The fifth discipline
- Jac Vennix: Group Model Building
- David Bohm: Wholeness and the implicate order
Organisation science
- Jac Geurts: Intervention model; supervisor PhD research
- Jaap Boonstra: Book Dynamics in organisations; chair of the research platform at Sioo
- Jeff Conklin: Dialogue mapping; building shared understanding of wicked problems
- André Wierdsma: Co-creatie van verandering
- Marvin Weisbord: Productive Workplaces (third edition).
- Marvin Weisbord & Sandra Janoff: Future Search (third edition)
- Marvin Weisbord & Sandra Janoff: Don’t just do something stand there; Ten principles for leading meetings that matter. Read summary
- Harrison Owen: Open Space Technology
Collective intelligence
Doing qualitative research
- Harry Wolcott: Writing up qualitative research
- Michael Patton: Qualitative research and evaluation methods
- David Erlandson et al: Doing Naturalistic Inquiry
Writing
- Natalie Goldberg: Writing down the bones; freeing the writer within
- Natalie Goldberg: Wildmind; living the writers life
- Joan Bolker; Writing your thesis in fifteen minutes a day