Acorn Publications

We publish books related to the Values & Mission of the Minessence Group.

If you have a book you would like published, and it is related to the Minessence Group's Mission, please contact us: acorn@minessence.net.

Books are available from the Minessence Group's online shop and from all good bookstores.


 

New Releases

 
 
Life Tools Life Tools is for individuals who want to develop experiential skills and a process model in working with groups. Here you will find numerous group facilitation examples, ideas, experiments and exercises that will provide you, the reader, with many creative tools.

Based on the author's extensive group facilitation teachings at Universities in Canada, Europe and Australia, as well as offering experiential group facilitation workshops all over the world, this book is an excellent and rich resource to those wishing to build and develop their group process skills.

Author: Yaro Starak
 
 

Existing Titles

 
 

New Wisdom II: Values-Based Development

New Wisdom II

"A useful book for anyone involved in, or responsible for, change and development at the individual, group or organisational level; for it is about growth of individuals, leaders and whole organisations...The authors’ strength is that they are able to summarise and integrate the essence of complicated philosophies and theories in a simple and concise way, e.g. critical theory, chaos theory, leadership theories and German philosophies, such as the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and Immanuel Kant’s philosophy." - Dr. Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt

"For those of my friends working with Values in their personal or commercial planning activity, this book is the missing Australian commentary and it is just great. In addition to a brilliant tracking from personal to global and simple to metaphysical there is an Instrument for a personal values profile and a wealth of other aids to encourage learning." - Robert Owen

Authors: Clare Colins & Paul Chippendale
Published: 1995
Reprinted (with minor changes): 2002

New Wisdom: The Nature of Social Reality
New Wisdom

This book is about growth...

Personal growth, leadership growth and organisational growth. No manager, team leader or change agent can afford, as the 21st Century approaches, to be without it.

The pages of this book contain the systems and the processes you need to set yourself, your team or your organisation on the path to sustainable success.

Authors: Clare Colins & Paul Chippendale
Published: 1991
Proceedings Vol 1
Title Proceedings of the first World Congress on Action Research & Process Management: Vol 2 / editors Clare Jae Colins & Paul J. Chippendale
Author
World Congress on Action Research & Process Management (1st :, 1990 : Brisbane, Qld.)  
Publisher Acorn Publications, c1991 
ISBN  0947357106
Full contents Volume 2: Praxis: Case studies & experiences. 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects Action research - Congresses.  |  Organizational behavior - Congresses.  | Action research in education - Congresses.
Editors Colins, Clare Jae  |  Chippendale, Paul J
Proceedings Vol 1
Title Proceedings of the first World Congress on Action Research & Process Management: Vol 1 / editors Clare Jae Colins & Paul J. Chippendale
Author
World Congress on Action Research & Process Management (1st :, 1990 : Brisbane, Qld.)  
Publisher Acorn Publications, c1991 
ISBN 0947357092
Full contents Volume 1: Theory & Praxis Frameworks 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects Action research - Congresses.  |  Organizational behavior - Congresses.  | Action research in education - Congresses.
Editors Colins, Clare Jae  |  Chippendale, Paul J