The current issue of AI Practitioner (http://www.aipractitioner.com/) is devoted to AI and OST.
Highly recommended. Our own Peggy Holman guest edited that issue. Chris On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:27:07 -0500, Jennifer Hurley <jlhur...@hfadesign.com> wrote: > I'd love to hear stories people have about using AI with Open Space (before > or during), as my church is considering using both as part of a strategic > planning process. What worked? What didn't? How did they relate to each > other? What did the groups do with the "results"? > > Jennifer Hurley > > > On 12/13/04 6:16 AM, "Funda Oral" <fundao...@superonline.com> wrote: > > > from the artice " What American Know-How Has To Learn " > Appreciative Inquiry is based on two assumptions. First, that organizations > always move in the direction of the questions their members ask and the > things they study and talk about. And second, that energy for positive > change is created when organizations engage continually in remembering and > analyzing circumstances when they were at their best rather than focusing on > problems and how they can be solved. The Appreciative Inquiry approach > invites organizations to spend time creating a common vision for their > desired future and developing the images and language to bring that vision > to life. > > Some thoughts and questions : > > I have many doubts about "appreciative inquiry"..it seems like an > "artifical motivating tool" to me. > > How do-you describe "a positive change" for an organization or a > community? > > I find it very dangerous for any organization, community, family, country > to concentrate too much on "their desired future" as this can be dividing, > selective > and not inclusive. > > Funda > > > > > > > * * ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, > unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about > OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > > ------------------------------- > Hurley~Franks and Associates > Planning & Urban Design > > 1429 Walnut St., Ste. 601 > Philadelphia, PA 19102 > > P: 215-988-9440 > jlhur...@hfadesign.com > http://www.hfadesign.com > > Association for the New Urbanism in PennsylvaniA (ANUPA) > http://www.anupa.org > > ********************************************************************** > This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential > and/or proprietary information. If you have received this in error, please > contact the sender by replying to this message and delete this material from > any system it may be on. > ********************************************************************** > > > > * * ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, > unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about > OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist -- ------------------------- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology Weblog: http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot Site: http://www.chriscorrigan.com * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
