Learning to Lead Together: An Ecological and Community Approach

This book explores the challenges and breakthroughs of learning to lead together in community-based green spaces for urban redevelopment. It provides first-hand examples of how an ecological and community approach to organizational development and urban regeneration can shift the business-as-usual paradigm. The author challenges the norms of authorship and combines different styles of writing to reflect the participatory approach.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 02 March 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

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Never before has there been such a profound recognition of the significance of community-based green spaces in local communities and urban redevelopment. This book is an autoethnographic account of the challenges and breakthroughs of learning to lead together. The interwoven stories offer firsthand, evocative examples of how an ecological and community approach to organizational development and urban regeneration helped shift the prevailing business-as-usual paradigm. It will guide you in identifying and stepping beyond individualistic and 'heroic notions of leadership, inspiring you to find your unique way of embracing natural and shared authority.

The book focuses on the experiences of developing an environmental education charity in London, Global Generation. It showcases how action research, nature practice, and storytelling have successfully fostered shared purpose, trust, and collaboration within Global Generation and in the broader community.

The style and structure of the book reflect the participatory approach it presents. The author, Jane Riddiford, deliberately challenges the norms of authorship, which are shaped by the dominant Western narrative—objective, authorless, and 'othered.' This book goes beyond this narrow framework, combining different styles of writing, including traditional and autobiographical storytelling, diary entries, and co-writing. Alongside practice accounts of what happened, challenges raised, and lessons learned, each chapter will also include other peoples' descriptions of their experience of being involved in the process.

Weight: 316g
Dimension: 154 x 233 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367684334