ABSTRACT

This chapter indicates the importance of practice challenges, ongoing education, and writing as professional development. This chapter examines eight principles for change practice both practically and theoretically. The principles are Learn Together for Progress, Take Time to Embrace Phases, Negotiate Diagnosis-Based Intervention, Include Change Strategy, Work Through Regression at Boundaries, Attend to Systems Psychodynamics, Think Socio-Technical Systems and Strategic Debates and Trust Action Research. This notation system covers most of my reflections on what is happening, what problems are emerging, when something works or does not work, challenging interactions and disagreements. As an in-the-moment prompt, these notes cover most of the needs for thinking and making sense. Some practitioners would call this 'journaling' or simply use a notebook. Finally the chapter indicates the importance of practice challenges, ongoing education, and writing as professional development. Thus a back and forth between theory and practice continues to be an essential process for the scholarly practitioner.