12.  CONSULTANT GROWTH AND RENEWAL.
        
             In order for the consultant to continue to grow in his or
        her technical expertise, Lippitt & Lippitt (1986) encourage the
        consultant to pursue the following strategies that they found
        most useful in promoting learning during their personal
        consulting careers:
             *    Listening to any colleague, client, or student who has
                  an idea or experience to share;
             *    Regarding each client situation as new and, therefore,
                  avoiding the automatic use of materials and designs
                  simply because they worked previously with another
                  client;
             *    Taking every opportunity to engage in co-consulting
                  efforts and consequently, learning from each other;
             *    Preparing speeches on new topics that require learning
                  and organizing new information;
             *    Writing articles on topics that have been addressed in
                  consulting sessions, preparing each draft as soon as a
                  session has been concluded so that the information is
                  fresh in one's mind;
             *    Continually exploring new concepts and models;
             *    Joining professional associations and thereby learning
                  from colleagues;
             *    Organizing discussion groups that meet periodically to
                  share ideas from reading and to discuss the
                  implications of these ideas; and 
             *    Finding one particular peer from whom one learns and
                  with whom one shares ideas at an especially deep level,
                  thus becoming clients of and consultants to each other
                  (Lippitt & Lippitt, 1986, p. 209).