I read Spiral Dynamics a number of years ago, and agree with Larry that it readily links up with Ken Wilber's work and Harrison's. And I am sure that Open Space can be used as a transformative gateway to help move an organization from one level to another.
What I am curious about is the use of Open Space with organizations (maybe smaller, entrpeneurial) who are at the pro-active or resposive stage, and need to move beyond that. One example I am thinking of is the brilliant,tyrannical engineer type heading a high-tech start-up, who can't give up personal control.In Harrison's training last year, he referred to "giving up control" in moving beyond the pro-active organizational stage (equivalent to orange meme?) It seems to me that Open Space would still work here, even if what the organization needs to do is delegate control and embed it more in the organization, not in the founder. (i.e. we're still a long way from inter-active!). Does anyone have any experience in this kind of situation? Meg Salter MegaSpace Consultants meg.sal...@sympatico.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Peterson" <lpa...@inforamp.net> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 2:31 PM Subject: Re: Questions and links to Spiral Dynamics > I have been exploring Spiral Dynamics for about a week now that I'm reading > "A Theory of Everything". Ken Wilbur is moving his ideas toward more > specific application and he thinks "Spiral Dynamics" is right on to his > image of nested holons. I'm going to explore it more and thanks for the web > site. Ken's article is pretty much what he put in the book. > > To me it is an elaboration of Harrision's (and Eric Trist's) Reactive, > Responsive, Pro-active, Interactive, Inspired. Ken Wilbur's thinking about > stages and transformation has got my wheels turning about what > "transformation" in organizations really means. There is transformative > experience, which may or may not shift the organization to a new stage of > consciousness or necessarily create the conditions for the new stage to > become an ongoing trait. I agree with Birgitt that that the shift is > turbulent and the formal leadership is citical to making it an ongoing > trait. There is a translative task that has to "work--be grokked" for the > leadership and the organization to sustain the shift. I'm working with a > couple of clients in large systems now who have used enough Open Space that > I can begin to experience the dynamics there. > > Spiral Dynamics, as I understand it, helps to clarify metaphors for the > coherent states. > > Larry > > Larry Peterson > Associates in Transformation > 41 Appleton Ave., Toronto, ON, > Canada, M6E 3A4 > Tel:/Fax: 416-653-4829 > > lpa...@inforamp.net > http://www.inforamp.net/~lpasoc > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > =========================================================== > osl...@egroups.com > To subscribe, > 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist > 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, > and choose a login ID and password > 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions > > To unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: > 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist > 2. Sign in and Proceed > * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== osl...@egroups.com To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed
