ABSTRACT

Development Consultation aims to create an experience between the consultant and client that respects and emphasizes the way they become an interacting system, in which the feedback and communication ensure that it is impossible not to change. Development Consultation recognizes that this experience takes place in one moment in the life of an ever-changing organization, and aims to set the new ways of thinking in a context of constantly changing beliefs and action. In describing the aims of Development Consultation, we are describing the effect of our own belief system on what we do as consultants, and we list below some important aspects of our own belief system. An important characteristic of Development Consultation is that the consultant shows a 'respectful curiosity' as he seeks to understand the client's organizational culture and behaviour. All interventions are aimed to create a new pattern of feedback or circular connection within the organization.