ABSTRACT
Collaborative approach is the framework for a partnership in which consultant and client combine expertise to explore their dilemmas and challenges and develop new possibilities for resolving them. In organizational consultation, the method is a way of integrating people and business strategies in building pathways to change and success. From a postmodern perspective organizational consultation is a linguistic event that involves and takes place in a particular kind of conversational process, a dialogue. Dialogue, the essence of the process, entails shared inquiry- a mutual search and co-exploration between client and consultant. The shared inquiry is fluid, and it encourages new ideas and viewpoints to be advanced in the conversation. Client and consultant, and client system members, become conversational partners in the telling, inquiring, interpreting, and shaping of the narratives. Shared inquiry only happens, however, when the consultant's curiosity maintains coherence with clients and is not too far removed from their experience.
