follow-up meetings

[Barbara E. Sliter]

These are wonderful quotes, gentle reminders of how we can be differently in
the world Thanks for  your effort in sharing them with us all.
Barbara


----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Aitken <ja at svn.net>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 4:58 PM
Subject: follow-up meetings


> 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:
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> 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:
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> Can we talk?
> What just happened?
> Who are we now?
> Who else needs to be here?
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> Reference: Bringing Life to Organizational Change by Margaret J. Wheatley
> and Myron Kellner-Rogers <www.berkana.org/publications>
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