ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I am concerned with the themes of power and values in the context of working with international Non Government Organizations (NGOs) and aid donors. In describing my experience I have bumped up against a series of paradoxes in the work that I have undertaken with others and this too has become a theme that I want to explore further. So I will attempt a critique of the development literature and then go on to explore the similarities and differences between the ideas expressed in more mainstream development thinking and an approach that the theory of complex responsive processes of relating might take toward the same issues.
