OST and metanoia

[Artur F. Silva]

Dear OS-practitioners:

As many of you know, I am discussing in another list the problem of
enhancing organizational learning, especially double loop learning and
metanoia.

I plan, in a near future, to present OST and discuss how it can improve
double loop learning (or metanoia).

In the last post to them I have presented Alberoni's conception of
metanoia. I am asking for those of you who care about the subject to
read that post and then answer, to the list or privately to me, to this
questions, using always the meaning that Alberoni gives to "metanoia":

1) From your experience with OST, do you think that OST is an important
way to enhance metanoiaic states in organizations and communities?

2) Do you think that some concepts current in the OST community may
facilitate this? and others may make it difficult? What concepts?

3) Do you think that the OS community qualifies in itself as a "birth stage"
(of a movement or of a Community of Practice, as Etienne Wenger defines
CoP's)?

4) If so, do you think that there is a risk that the community may disperse in
different "sub-practices", and that can diminish the overall metanoiaic
potential of OST?

For those of you that want to help me in understanding this, the
referred (and long) post can be found at:

http://www.learning-org.com/01.10/0025.html

Thank you very much to all that will accept the challenge

Artur

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