follow-up meetings

[Andrea Barrett]

Having just seen Jeff Aitken's notice on the Wheatley/Rogers work I thought
it might be useful to post the article from which the four principles are
summarised. I have in the past posted this article on this list as
wonderful reference to the power of Open Space in organisations and a very
accessible article for organisations considering new paradigms of
management.

Regards

Andrea.


Andrea Barrett
Process and Organisational Consultant

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> From: Jeff Aitken <ja at svn.net>
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: follow-up meetings
> Date: Friday, March 24, 2000 7:58 AM
>
> 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>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -
> Jeff Aitken
> PO Box 1092
> Inverness CA 94937
> 415-663-8789
> ja at svn.net
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