ABSTRACT
Rather like airline advice to fit our own oxygen masks before helping others, attending to “who I am” and “who I am not” at any one time is an effective way to think about the rationale behind the idea of developing ourselves as instruments as we engage with colleagues and clients to effect change. In this section you will find:
Some ideas about inhabiting our identities—what this means
Why working with identity is so central to our approach to professional development
Accounts from organisational consulting and change practitioners as to how identity makes itself felt in our practice, together with theories to help you think about identities in relation to different consulting challenges.
