CMM Solutions is the latest release from Barnett Pearce, Jesse Sostrin and Kimberly Pearce. The new CMM Solutions Field Guide and companion Workbook are a must read for coaches, consultants and other thoughtful practitioners who seek dynamic methods of practice that can address the increasingly complex issues and interdependencies they (and their clients) confront in the workplace.Drawn from years of research and reflective practice with clients across a variety of industries, CMM Solutions provides a tangible set of templates that can be used simply and effectively across a variety of individual, team and organizational settings. The straight-ahead style of writing and incisive approach to designing consultative engagements will help consultants to do their work better by taking advantage of all that CMM has to offer.

CMM Solutions is the latest release from Barnett Pearce, Jesse Sostrin and Kimberly Pearce. The new CMM Solutions Workbook and companion Field Guide are a must read for coaches, consultants and other thoughtful practitioners who seek dynamic methods of practice that can address the increasingly complex issues and interdependencies they (and their clients) confront in the workplace. Drawn from years of research and reflective practice with clients across a variety of industries, CMM Solutions provides a tangible set of templates that can be used simply and effectively across a variety of individual, team and organizational settings. The straight-ahead style of writing and incisive approach to designing consultative engagements will help consultants to do their work better by taking advantage of all that CMM has to offer.

This book honors the life and work of the late W. Barnett Pearce, a leading theorist in the communication field. The book is divided into four sections. The first section will lead with an essay by Barnett Pearce. This will be followed by sections on (1) practical theory, (2) dialogue, and (3) social transformation. In the broadest sense, these are probably the three general themes found in the work of Pearce and his colleagues. In another sense, these categories also identify three important dimensions of Pearce’s major contribution, the theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning.

This handbook examines the development and use of manuals to guide and support systemic couples and family therapies. It addresses the process of manualizing, providing a secure base for therapist creativity rather than delineating prescriptive procedures. The volume addresses therapist and trainer concerns by demonstrating the value of sufficiently articulating clinical and teaching models to inform colleagues of what actually occurs during therapy. The book describes the history, value, and controversies of manuals. In addition, it explores issues and experiences in the creation of manuals, identifies research issues related to the use and evaluation of manuals, and addresses training as a context for the application of treatment manuals. Key areas of coverage include: Reports of experiences with major, internationally established manuals, formulations of innovative practices by their developers, and specifications of training programs. Discussion of the various formats of manuals, demonstrating their benefit and transportability across different contexts. Surveys of a broad selection of manuals, creating a flexible and diversified concept of what forms manuals may take. Essential guidance for using manuals, which is an indispensable step for the field to progress and to claim to health resource commissioning, governments and insurance agencies that the systemic practice is evidence based and effective. The Handbook of Systemic Approaches to Psychotherapy Manuals is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related therapists and professionals in clinical psychology, family studies, public health, social work, psychotherapy, child and adolescent psychology and all interrelated disciplines.

Almost 400 years ago philosophers John Locke and David Hume implicitly defined communication as a tool for the transmission of pure ideas, stating that the ideas themselves are what matter, not the way in which they are expressed and exchanged. Now known as the transmission model, this form of communication is still the foundation for academic courses in communication theory and practice, and is embedded in most business literature and education that address subjects related to workplace communication, organization behavior and culture, leadership, and conflict resolution. But what if this accepted model of communication was incomplete? Re-Making Communication at Work argues that the transmission model of communication needs to be replaced by a new approach to communication. Sostrin challenges the status quo by exposing the most common myths that inaccurately define successful communication at work. These misperceptions are replaced by a set of core principles that deliver a clear mandate for re-making communication at work. Sostrin not only provides the theoretical foundation for this new approach, but he uses a straightforward model and exercises that demonstrate how managers, students, and consultants can powerfully improve relationships, decision-making, and collaboration with a few lines and circles.

This book showcases ways in which the theory of Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) has been applied in a variety of settings. The title reflects the three sections of the book in which CMM is used with individuals and groups toward making meaning together in constructive and generative ways to make better social worlds through communication.