ABSTRACT
The central qualities of its nature are organizing and shaping rather than pliancy and suppleness. Charles Reich describes twentieth-century Western consciousness as convinced that man's needs are best met by trying to dominate experience rather than being subject to experience. Maslow describes taoistic methods of child-rearing. Community work also has its taoistic elements. The non-directive worker tries to increase people's skills and knowledge of communication processes. Professor Batten develops what he describes as the non-directive approach. Homeless families live communally in depressingly low-standard accommodation with dirty toilets and cramped washing facilities. Hundreds of homeless single men and women sleep out under the bridges of central London. Revolutions begin by some people living them; experiencing different and more integrative feelings about their relations to the outside world. Programmes of a political nature are important and products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values are right.
