TY - BOOK AU - Emery, Merrelyn AU - Purser, Ronald E TI - The search conference: A powerfull method for planning organizational change and community action AV - HD 58.8 E53s 1996 PY - 1996/// CY - San Francisco PB - Jossey - Bass Publishers N2 - The power of search conferences, 1. -- Learning and planning our way to desirable futures, 3. -- Uses and advantages of search conference methods, 21. -- Understanding search conference principles, 45. -- Planning in stable and turbulent environments, 47. -- Open systems thinking and the power of human ideals, 74. -- The strength of democratic learnign, 97. -- Conditions for creative collaboration, 124. -- Strategies for effective search conferences, 147. -- Planning for success, 149. -- Designing the search conference for effectiveness, 174. -- Managing the search conference, 210. -- The search conference step-by-step, 235. -- Beyond stagnation and stalemate, 267 ER -