Questions and links to Spiral Dynamics

[Meg Salter]

Thank you Larry and Richard

Your messages both make sense.  Open Space both as a space (e.g. the
inter-active organization, coral meme, whatever) and as a gateway from
wherever you are (e.g. blue meme) to peek experiences of higher levels,
(yellow, coral) But you still have todo the work to move along the path as
an organization, practice being in difference spaces.....  the journey
continues!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Peterson" <lpasoc at inforamp.net>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: Questions and links to Spiral Dynamics


> 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
>
> *
> *
> ==========================================================
> OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
> view the archives of oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu
> Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
>
> ===========================================================
> OSLIST at EGROUPS.COM
> To subscribe,
> 1.  Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist
> 2.  Sign up -- provide an email address,
>     and choose a login ID and password
> 3.  Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions
>
> To unsubscribe, change your options,
> view the archives of oslist at egroups.com:
> 1.  Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist
> 2.  Sign in and Proceed

*
*
==========================================================
OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu
Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html

===========================================================
OSLIST at EGROUPS.COM
To subscribe,
1.  Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist
2.  Sign up -- provide an email address,
    and choose a login ID and password
3.  Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions

To unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of oslist at egroups.com:
1.  Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist
2.  Sign in and Proceed