Force field analysis

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A field of forces

Under Force Field Analysis (Engl. Force-field analysis ) is defined as a simple method for the analysis of the driving and restraining factors in a situation. The force field analysis represents a framework of ideas for a (originally social) situation. It considers forces that are either driving towards a goal (helping forces) or blocking (hindering forces) and thus create the situation as a state of equilibrium. The force field analysis goes back to the Gestalt psychologist Kurt Lewin and is used in the field of social sciences , psychology , OE , process and change management as well as in some directions of psychotherapy .

A force field analysis is used in different phases of problem-solving processes to represent the situation. It is important to recognize that a change in the situation can be based on two mechanisms:

  • One can increase the changing forces
  • One can weaken the restraining forces

Force field analysis is a simple and quick method for the first analysis of situations. The primary goal is to make the situation accessible to several people and to draw their attention to possibilities.

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  1. ^ WC Miller (1987): The Creative Edge: Fostering Innovation Where You Work , Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, p. 73.
  2. ^ Lewin K. (1943): Defining the "Field at a Given Time." Psychological Review . 50: 292-310. Republished in Resolving Social Conflicts & Field Theory in Social Science , Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1997. German: Definition of 'field at a given time', in: K. Lewin (1963), Feldtheorie in den Sozialwissenschaften , Bern and Stuttgart: Verlag Hans Huber, pp. 86-101.
  3. ↑ u. a. in Gestalt theory psychotherapy , see Kästl / Stemberger 2005: Gestalt theory in psychotherapy .