Organization and Education Development

Suresh Nanwani is Professor in Practice at Durham University, UK, and Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University. He is an author, a writer, and an editor and has more than 30 years of development work experience in international organizations.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgments

About the author

List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction: why the journey, the itinerary, and the fellow travelers?

It is never too late to embark on a journey to learn about oneself

Two salient events in my life and their effects on me

Options in mapping out my journey

What is the "best travel agenda"?

Core values for my research journey of discovery

What I need to know and discover on my journey: objectives and questions

My fellow travelers

2 Essential items packed for the journey: OD Theories and concepts
with accompanying studies and literature

Introduction

My travel bag

Reflective practice

Appreciative inquiry and appreciative living

Positive organization scholarship

Charlotte Shelton’s seven quantum skills

Positive psychology, and flow and creativity

Action research living theory

Eastern perspectives: ikigai, yoga, meditation, and tai chi

Mindfulness

Self-awareness

Self: the human being is part of the whole, called the universe

Know yourself

3 All Aboard: my journey travelers who helped me in navigating my route

My ticket for the journey: the research paradigm

Three instruments in my research paradigm

Respondents for the surveys and interviews

Data collection

Journaling

Surveys and interviews

Feedback questions

4 The journey: what I learned from my initial fellow travelers and myself in relation to the values of integrity, professionalism, and spirituality

Introduction

Research question 1: what are the consistent ways in which practicing my three values of
integrity, professionalism, and spirituality make me a fully integrated person?

Summary

Impact of independent readership on my journal entries

Research question 2: through what behavioral lenses do my friends and students
perceive me practicing the three values?

Surveys

Interviews

Summary

5 The journey continues: what I learned from my dditional Dellow Travelers and
Myself on my top three discoveries and on my final model

Introduction

Research question 3: what are the top three discoveries I gained from my practice of the
three values?

Summary

Research question 4: what model can I craft toward becoming (a) a fully integrated
person and (b) a better professor?

Summary

Four illustrative vignettes

Vignette one (on professionalism)

Brief episode

Extrapolation

Vignette two (on integrity)

Brief episode

Extrapolation

Vignette three (on spirituality)

Brief episode

Extrapolation

Vignette four (on all three values of integrity, professionalism, and spirituality)

Brief episode

Extrapolation

6 Completing the journey: the Final OD model, the lessons learned, the MICAI
intersection model, summaries of reflective practices, and does the journey really end?

A fulfilling journey and the six-spoked wheel model

General conclusions

Specific conclusions

Core values

A clear process for the route taken

The road is never neatly defined

A three-legged stool of values

There is always room for improvement in teaching and in living life

I am part of the cosmos and I contribute to the dynamic whole

The MICAI intersection model

Instances in applying the MICAI intersection model

Summaries of reflective practices for a reader to use

Scenario 1

Scenario 2

Several specific examples of simple daily reflective practices

Example 1: morning — the sun rises, we rise, we awaken

Example 2: a flock of birds flying in the sky

Example 3: eating slowly and tasting the gently-stirred oatmeal porridge

you cooked

A poem to sum up my journey and salient pointers I learned

Concluding notes and recommendations

Key ingredients in embarking on a journey

Incorporation of other concepts and theories

Always revisit your journey

7 Postscript from my journey: Covid-19, the new normal, and ways of rediscovering oneself

Introduction

My final model in relation to Covid-19

Impact of Covid-19 on OD models and new values in OD

Covid-19 as a crisis of opportunity

Mental maps: conventional and new normal

Unleashing the best in us

Shakespeare and the black plague: creativity sparked in dramatic plays

Chekhov in isolation: creativity released in the wilderness

Wordsworth as a solitary person: creativity unlocked through poetry

The miracle of Robben Island: creativity uncaged through imprisonment

and confinement

An exercise in reinterpreting lines from As You Like It, 1599: as rewritten in 2020, the
new normal

Epilogue

Appendix 1: selected journal entries as samples showing self-reflection

Appendix 2: selections from the data collection table reporting interviews with the

respondents

Glossary

Index