Tracy, my own take on this stuff is that OST has actually led me to
things like Spiral Dynamics and Integral Theory and not the other way
around. I think OST facilitation is fundamentally a practice
first, and the theory comes later once you see what is going on and get
curious about how it all happens. <br>
<br>
For me maps like this always help me to help a client to understand the
deeper implications of what is going on, why OST seems to be (and is)
so transformational. But it's important to use language that
works for you and for the sponsor.<br>
<br>
Ken Wilber is one person whose thinking has helped a lot. Michael
Herman's work has really been most useful in adopting this stuff to OST
for me. And there are many others, including Stuart Kauffman, Meg
Wheatley, Angeles Arrien, David Bohm, Steven Johnson, Peggy Holman and
Anne Stadler, Alan Stewart, Christina Baldwin, Fritjof Capra. Pema
Chodron, Otto Scharmer, Adam Kahane, William Issacs and Peter Senge who
have all been influential in helping to map the territory I find myself
on as a result of using OST. <br><br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Chris<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/30/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Envision Halifax</b> <<a href="mailto:info@envisionhalifax.ca">info@envisionhalifax.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I am now kicking myself a bit for missing the session in
Halifax on Spiral Dynamics but at the time, the topic sounded strange for
someone new on the scene. In reading this very interesting discussion I have
collected a few pieces from people that brought me to a question. As someone
new, trying to learn and navigate the sea of information:</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><b><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Is there real value in learning about
Spiral Dynamics as it relates to opening space and for those of you who are
familiar with SD, how has it helped you with opening space?</span></font></b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> (I think Funda was starting to get close
to connecting this with her post)</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Pieces of posts on this topic that made me consider why I
would take time to learn more about SD…</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><span class="q">I don't have a clue who said what to whom
-- but what I do know is that when you open some space -- folks get to
work. <br></span>
The rest of it is kind of immaterial. (T-1, T-17 --). Harrison Owen</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Geneva" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Geneva; color: navy;">…Anyway, I think systems that
create hierarchies are inherently faulty, no help for it. That includes
programs that 'certify' somebody to do something they are already perfectly
capable of doing all by themselves or by just following instructions with a lot
of heart.<br>
Paul Everett</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Geneva" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Geneva; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p style=""><font color="navy" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: navy;">...all human beings move in and out of levels of development,
levels of consciousness and levels of understanding. I might be green
about social issues, orange about art (orange is second tier, above green) and
red about homophobia in the same moment. Few human beings live frozen,
stuck in just one way of being for all issues in life. As a workplace
meeting takes place, for example, participants might move in and out of memes
like shifting sands.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: navy;">Tree Fitzpatrick</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I really respect all of the thoughtfulness and work that
people have put into posts on this topic and others. I will visit the links,
thank you for the resources.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Tracy</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
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