I am in the middle of writing a thesis with the title so far - LOVE AT WORK.

This is an autobiographical account of the development of my professional practice, which begins with a very personal emotional narrative and then moves on into a discussion about the moral responsibility of leadership. Later I expect to write about relationships at work, bringing examples of my emerging confidence as a consultant using action inquiry methods.

Descriptions and reflections on two pivotal turning points in my life, starting with my experience of love in meditation, and then reflecting on risk and the demise of the housing organisation in which I worked for 13 years.

Love in all its aspects, as it brings about my self-development, as it is enacted in practice through spiritual values, as it is understood in a cultural context, as it can be felt and embodied whilst remaining outside language and socially constructed meaning, as it affects social formations!

Eros and the dynamic of contrast and contradiction and what it means to work with paradoxical notions of feminism and Hinduism, competition and co-operation, the Divine in a Godless society, Self and the Universe.

Agape and the dynamic of interdependence and what happens in emergent relationships. (This is still to be written)

In addition to the AR literature published by Peter Reason and Jack Whitehead, I have been strongly influenced by the writing of Varela et.al. on the embodiment of knowledge, by Ken Wilbur on the relation between religion and society and the Four Quadrants of the Kosmos, and by Bill Torbert and the Leadership Development Framework.