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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I know OS has been used extensively in
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Peggy</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 19, 2006 10:02 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Call for Appreciative Inquiry Cases</DIV></DIV>
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<P align=center><FONT color=#000000><STRONG><FONT
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size=4>Billie Alban & Loren Mead Seek
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<P><U><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif
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Mead Seek Cases / Stories for New
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<P><FONT face="times new roman,times,serif"
color=#000000><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>Billie
Alban</STRONG> and <STRONG>Loren Mead</STRONG> are
looking for stories and cases from people who have used
Future Search, Open Space, Appreciative Inquiry, or
other Large Group Methods to work with Faith Communities
i.e. Congregations: (Protestant, Catholic, Jewish)
Judicatory bodies: Dioceses, Regional Headquarters,
National Headquarters, and Theological
Seminaries. <BR> <BR>Their purpose is to
write a book about the use of Large Group Methods,
specifically in working with faith based organizations.
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<P><FONT face="times new roman,times,serif"
color=#000000><FONT color=#000000>If you have done work
using large group methods with any of the above faith
related organizations, please contact Billie Alban by
email: <A href="mailto:Albanb@aol.com "
target=_blank><STRONG>Albanb@aol.com</STRONG>
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<P><FONT face="times new roman,times,serif"
color=#000000><FONT color=#000000><FONT
color=#000000>Please provide your</FONT> phone number so
that Alban or Mead can contact you by phone and learn
more about your work.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P align=center><STRONG><U><FONT color=#000099>About
Consultants/Authors Billie Alban & Loren
Mead</FONT></U></STRONG></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="times new roman,times,serif"
color=#000000 size=2><STRONG><FONT size=3>Billie
Alban</FONT></STRONG> is President of Alban & Williams,
Ltd. She teaches in executive development programs at
Columbia, and other Universities. She has served on the board
of the Organizational Development Network and the Board of
Advisors of the Yale Divinity School. She has consulted in
Latin America, Europe, the UK and New Zealand. Her
recent books include: <EM>Large Group
Interventions: Engaging the Whole System for Rapid Change</EM>
(1996) and<EM> The Handbook of Large Group
Methods: Creating Systemic Change in Organizations and
Communities</EM> (2006).<BR></FONT><FONT
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<P align=left><FONT face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif
color=#000000 size=2><FONT
face="times new roman,times,serif"><FONT size=3><STRONG>Loren
Mead</STRONG></FONT>, an ordained Episcopal priest, is an
educator, consultant, author and founder of the Alban
Institute, who works to strengthen religious
institutions, especially local congregations. Loren has
collaborated with lay people, clergy, executives and bishops,
teachers and others committed to ministry. A pioneer in
congregational studies, he brought together the methods of
organization development consultation and applied research for
working with congregations. </FONT></FONT><FONT
face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2><FONT
face="times new roman,times,serif">As author, he published
three best selling books on the future of the church, <EM>The
Once and Future Church</EM> (1991), <EM>Transforming
Congregations for the Future</EM> (1994), and <EM>Five
Challenges for the Once and Future Church</EM>
(1996).</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>
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