Andrea, Thank you for the article. It is immediately helpful to my work in creating open space within the public schooling community in the US.
Don Horrigan DH Associates Bowie, MD > -----Original Message----- > From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]On Behalf Of Andrea > Barrett > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 9:28 PM > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Subject: Re: follow-up meetings > > > Having just seen Jeff Aitken's notice on the Wheatley/Rogers work > I thought > it might be useful to post the article from which the four principles are > summarised. I have in the past posted this article on this list as > wonderful reference to the power of Open Space in organisations and a very > accessible article for organisations considering new paradigms of > management. > > Regards > > Andrea. > > > Andrea Barrett > Process and Organisational Consultant > > Systemic Intervention Consultancy (sic) > PO Box 3, North Fremantle > West Australia 6159 > > Tel: 00 61 89335 6989 Perth > Tel: 00 61 39387 8755 Melbourne > > Mobile 0407 606 678 > Fax: 00 61 89335 6989 > > ---------- > > From: Jeff Aitken <j...@svn.net> > > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > > Subject: follow-up meetings > > Date: Friday, March 24, 2000 7:58 AM > > > > I just returned from Birgitt's wonderful training on the Open Space > > Organization. Blessings to you Birgitt! > > > > We were talking about ways to design a follow-up meeting for an > > organization's leadership after an open space meeting. I remembered four > > questions which Meg Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers posed in a > > fascinating article about organizational change. Actually I remembered > > three of the four, and promised to post all four on the list. > > > > The questions grow from the unique perspective of organizational change > > which the authors introduce in the article. There are four lessons which > > they sketch out: > > > > Participation is not a choice. > > Life always reacts to directives, it never obeys them. > > We do not see "reality." We each create our own interpretation of what's > real. > > To create better health in a living system, connect it to more > of itself. > > > > And these are four questions they suggest, which may be useful as a way > to > > reflect on an open space event: > > > > Can we talk? > > What just happened? > > Who are we now? > > Who else needs to be here? > > > > > > Reference: Bringing Life to Organizational Change by Margaret > J. Wheatley > > and Myron Kellner-Rogers <www.berkana.org/publications> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > - > > Jeff Aitken > > PO Box 1092 > > Inverness CA 94937 > > 415-663-8789 > > j...@svn.net
