Learning Consultation

David Campbell was a consultant clinical psychologist based at the Tavistock Clinic in London. In addition to a clinical practice, he developed training courses in supervision, professional doctorate research, and Master's-level family therapy training. He established a long-standing international practice as a management and leadership trainer and organizational consultant.

'This book is unusual in this field for its ability to illuminate the learning process from the perspective of both the teacher and the learner. All the contributors have been very open and candid about their experiences, revealing aspects of their learning which are not usually discussed, yet have the effect of empowering the reader to take more personal risks in their own learning.'Learning Consultation is about the process of slowly building new skills on top of old ones. It starts with basic premises and techniques of systemic consultation and moves forward through time as these become the underpinning for the practice of consultation. This will be invaluable to the many practitioners being asked to do more and more consultation work.'- Ros Draper'This book provides a consultation to any reader interested in engaging in the process of a role shift to systemic consultancy. It carefully presents the theoretical ideas and skills as they are needed within a rich tapestry of case examples. It is presented in the form of a co-evolutionary narrative of the teaching/learning process which closely mirrors the consultation process itself. Highly recommended.'- Clare Huffington

• Editors' Foreword , Introduction , The Seminars , Seminar one , Seminar two , Seminar three , Review of the learning , The Applications , Should consultation fit the client's expectations? , By which process do people learn to do consultation? , Converting a teaching event into consultation , A story of unheeded warning lights and a semi-external consultant , To see the world anew , Learning from feedback: long-term consultation to a school , Postscript A cautionary tale: the man who would do no harm , Participants in the Danish seminars