Straight from the heart – a clinical group intervention to research management spirituality
Adjacent
Proposes a year-long helping group as a research method: managers bring real problems, and what they share to get help becomes the data. A strong holding environment let them speak “straight from the heart”.
The design follows Edgar Schein’s idea of clinical inquiry: research done while helping people who have asked for help. Because the material follows what matters to the participants, the authors treat a drift from the planned research direction as a guide to what is relevant, not as a failure.
They offer the approach to researchers who want to facilitate change as well as study it, a double role familiar to practitioners who research Circling.
What it doesn’t show
A method proposal. It reports what kind of material the group produced, not what the group did for its members.
Summary based on the abstract.