Questions and links to Spiral Dynamics

[Larry Peterson]

I also think Open Space enables an organization that functions at a blue
meme to have a "transformational experience" of a higher one, at least
yellow and maybe beyond.  This does not mean that they can then function at
that level on an ongoing basis.  (As Ken Wilbur states)

I just facilitated a 2.5 day event which concluded with Open Space with a
church based group of social activists dealing with cutbacks.  After
clarifying the context and givens together, which may include one major
denomination going bankrupt, we then went into Open Space.  At evening news
they were struggling with finding their path.  I use evening news as an
opportunity to bring to awareness the discomfort in the room, so that it can
be explored in the unconscious overnight and flipped into a topic for
breakthrough thinking in the morning.  This happened and a critical
conversation took place in the morning with most of the group attending.
This has been punctuated in the morning by an Aboriginal Christian worship
experience.  At the closing of the Open Space they all commented how they
had experienced breakthrough thinking, collaboration, vision, community and
possibility in the midst of cutback.. They collectively experienced yellow
(integral) coming out of blue (mythic) organizations.  It was a "peak
experience".  They could then carry the "glow" of this experience back into
their business meeting.  However, they still functioned as a "blue"
(mythic-order) organization when they did the business.  They could not
sustain that level or even moving to orange or green without more practice.

Larry

Larry Peterson
Associates in Transformation
41 Appleton Ave., Toronto, ON,
Canada, M6E 3A4
Tel:/Fax: 416-653-4829

lpasoc at inforamp.net
http://www.inforamp.net/~lpasoc

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