Publications: Books and online guides

Publications: Books and online guides

Front cover book Co-creation in work meetings. Making the invisible visible
Co-creation in work meetings. Making the invisible visible

Principles and 12 methods for co-creating plans and actions for improving practice with groups from 5 to over 100 stakeholders. Heart Media, 2024

Co-creatie in werkbijeenkomsten. Het onzichtbare zichtbaar maken

Principles and 12 methods for co-creating plans and actions for improving practice with groups from 5 to over 100 stakeholders. Heart Media, 2023 [in Dutch]

Apenkooien met cocreatie. Inzichten en voorbeelden uit acht jaar lectoraat (pdf)

Ten articles, written together with 9 members of my research group. Avans University of Applied Sciences, 2022 [in Dutch]

Actieonderzoek doen. Een routewijzer voor studenten en professionals

A practical guide for conducting research IN and WITH the practice. With many examples and methods. 2nd edition. Boom, 2022 [in Dutch]

Wise Action and Uncertainty. COS Conference 2017 Experience Report. Wenen: COS-Collective (pdf)

Book with a detailed description of the workings of an interactive five-day international conference and the yield with guidelines for what to do when you don’t know what to do. Written with Jacqueline Janssen and Tova Averbuch, with contributions from many others. Self-published, 2017. 

Building an evidence based practical guide to Large Scale Interventions. Towards sustainable organisational change with the whole system

Thesis on six years of research into the success factors for sustainable change using the Large Scale Intervention approach. Contains a practical guide with checklists and evaluation instrument. Eburon 2011.

“If there are more dilemmas of this work than the ones you have collected, I can’t imagine what they are. I believe that with the guide, and your interactive meetings, you have made a major contribution to the discussion of Large Group Interventions.
– Marvin Weisbord, founding father of Future Search, writer of the bestseller Productive Workplaces

Handen en voeten geven aan duurzaam organiseren. Vanuit een groeiend bewustzijn hoe we willen leven (pdf)

A booklet published on the occasion of my inaugural speech on 17 April 2015 as professor of Sustainable Working and Organising at Avans University of Applied Sciences. It provides a theoretical foundation for sustainable development and practical guidance on how to realize it in practice. Avans University of Applied Sciences, 2015  [in Dutch, use AI translation]

Online actieonderzoek doen

What do you do if, due to circumstances, you need to conduct action research ‘remotely’? This site is intended to support teachers, students, researchers, and other stakeholders in this. [in Dutch, use AI translation] 

Learning Histories. Participative change by storytelling

An online guide on utilizing learning histories to derive insights from past experiences for the future of your organization.