follow-up meetings

[Donald Horrigan]

Andrea,
Thank you for the article. It is immediately helpful to my work in creating
open space within the public schooling community in the US.

Don Horrigan
DH Associates
Bowie, MD


> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of Andrea
> Barrett
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 9:28 PM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Re: follow-up meetings
>
>
> 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