LEWIN+IN+A+NUT+SHELL


 * KURT LEWIN IN A NUT SHELL**

**Psychologist - Gestalt - who left Germany's Nazis to their self-destruction and became one of the greatest change agents-theorists-practitioners -so far!**

**HIS MISSION: To find an effective approach to resolving social conflict through changing group behavior.**

**He created/promoted an ethical and humanist approach to change that leveraged learning and involvement.**

**His work is based on four mutually reinforcing concepts:**

**1. Field theory** **2. Group Dynamics** **3. Action Research** **4. Three-step Model**

// **"The Expert always arrives in the middle of somebody's else's movie an d leaves before the end."** // **Marvin Weisbord**

**Lewin had great distaste for one shot change projects delegated to others. He compared it to a ship's captain ordering a course correction to the right, then going to dinner while the ship sails in circles. Missing is the feedback loop, which steers the action by its effect outside the vessel rather than its impact within.**