FW: help with linking to your article

[Audrey Coward]

 Thank You
Audrey

Audrey Coward
Coward & Associates Consulting
Facilitating Individual and Organizational Change
2281F Lakeshore Blvd. W, Toronto, ON  M8V 1A6
416-259-6215
www.facilitatingforchange.com




-----Original Message-----
From: Lucas Gonzalez [mailto:lgs0a at yahoo.es]
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:06 AM
To: Audrey at facilitatingforchange.com
Subject: help with linking to your article


Hi, Audrey!

(1)

Maybe you want to share this link with the whole list.  I'm not doing it
myself for fear of *many* people having the same idea!

http://www.hsdinstitute.org/about_news.asp
click on Patterns, the May 14 edition of their newsletter


(2)

This is a longer "document address" which may work if it's not broken by
the email programs between us:
http://www.hsdinstitute.org/e-clarity/asp_news_0004/user_documents/Pract
ice%20of%20Peace%20Final.pdf


(3)

You may also want to share the whole text - it's yours after all! I
include it below my signature for your convenience.


I hope this helps!  Thanks for sharing your review!

Lucas


=== Audrey Coward's book review:

The Practice of Peace
by Harrison Owen

Published by Human Systems Dynamics Institute, 2004
Book review by Audrey Briffett Coward, BA (Ed.) CHRP MS (OD)

Harrison defines Peace as “
the dynamic interrelationship of complex
forces (including chaos, conflict and confusion) productive of
wholeness, health and harmony.” He goes on to state that the “practice
of peace” is the intentional creation of the requisite conditions under
which peace may occur.

According to Harrison, the core mechanism in “The Practice of Peace” is
selforganization —a core practice of what we now call Open Space
Technology (OST).

Self-organization drives toward peace, and, when freely operative,
self-organization generates the dynamic interrelationship of complex
forces that produce peace—wholeness, health and harmony.

Harrison's gift as a story teller, his use of informal words like
“critters,” “snake belly low,” and metaphors like “a skunk at a garden
party” surprise and delight the reader. The book is filled with
easy-to-understand applications of the works of Thomas Kuhn, Ken Wilbur,
James Gleick, Stuart Kauffman, and Ira Prigogine, among others.

Harrison and others have used OST more than 40,000 times in 83 countries
with groups from 5-2000. The book describes the technology in terms that
beginners, as well as experienced practitioners, can understand and
apply. Harrison provides an easily understood explanation for learning
practitioners along with a more in-depth analysis for experienced
practitioners. He explores how the power of self-organizing can support
the search for peace both in organizations and in our world.

According to Harrison, anyone and everyone can set the conditions for
peace to self organize—governments, NGO'S, multi-national organizations,
local communities, teachers, farmers and you.

How does this work contribute to human systems dynamics, as a field of
work?

o Both ask us to continue thinking, talking and being together
differently, in ways that understand and encourage self-organization.

o OST changes our ways of looking at people, systems and processes, and
it questions our beliefs about how systems and people grow, change and
transform. Indeed, it changes our way of being in the world and the way
we do our work.

o We have an opportunity to open dialogue so practitioners and theorists
can pose more questions, look for points of intersection, and share
their discoveries.

=== that's it!



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