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- Title
Holistic Embodied OD as a New Approach to the Practice of OD and Change.
- Authors
Matthews, Todd L.; Szelwach, Celia
- Abstract
The deepening and intensifying of the characteristics of VUCA in today's world have brought a long-standing issue related to OD practice into sharper focus as the need for OD becomes more salient than ever. This issue relates to what we call the "disembodied" nature of OD and change work: i.e., the tendency for those who practice OD to do so in a manner that privileges certain aspects of Being (head, heart, or hands), while simultaneously ignoring (consciously or otherwise) equally valid and valuable information emanating through our bodies at each moment. While OD scholars and practitioners often lament this era as one of "crisis" for the field, we see this as a moment of opportunity for growth and revitalization. After briefly reviewing and analyzing the state of OD and change practice, including identifying three primary approaches to OD utilized over time, the authors propose an approach that synthesizes and blends the past approaches while also drawing on other fields of study and practice. The concept, Holistic Embodied OD, is grounded in the development of an enhanced use of self that integrates and equally values several different elements of our lived self-experience and relations with others: Thinking (Head), Feeling (Heart), Doing (Hands), and Being (Whole Body). (206 words).
- Publication
Organization Development Review, 2021, Vol 53, Issue 4, p7
- ISSN
2640-0669
- Publication type
Academic Journal