follow-up meetings

Jeff Aitken ja at svn.net
Thu Mar 23 13:58:28 PST 2000


I just returned from Birgitt's wonderful training on the Open Space
Organization. Blessings to you Birgitt!

We were talking about ways to design a follow-up meeting for an
organization's leadership after an open space meeting. I remembered four
questions which Meg Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers posed in a
fascinating article about organizational change. Actually I remembered
three of the four, and promised to post all four on the list.

The questions grow from the unique perspective of organizational change
which the authors introduce in the article. There are four lessons which
they sketch out:

Participation is not a choice.
Life always reacts to directives, it never obeys them.
We do not see "reality." We each create our own interpretation of what's real.
To create better health in a living system, connect it to more of itself.

And these are four questions they suggest, which may be useful as a way to
reflect on an open space event:

Can we talk?
What just happened?
Who are we now?
Who else needs to be here?


Reference: Bringing Life to Organizational Change by Margaret J. Wheatley
and Myron Kellner-Rogers <www.berkana.org/publications>






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Jeff Aitken
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Inverness CA 94937
415-663-8789
ja at svn.net

>From  Thu Mar 23 20:43:35 2000
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 20:43:35 -0700
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Jeff Aitken wrote:

> Participation is not a choice.
> Life always reacts to directives, it never obeys them.
> We do not see "reality." We each create our own interpretation of what's real.
> To create better health in a living system, connect it to more of itself.
>
> And these are four questions they suggest, which may be useful as a way to
> reflect on an open space event:
>
> Can we talk?
> What just happened?
> Who are we now?
> Who else needs to be here?

Powerful stuff, Jeff!! Thanks for sharing.

BJ



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