I know OS has been used extensively in faith communities...please respond if
you have a story to share.
Peggy
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Billie Alban & Loren Mead Seek Cases/Stories
Billie Alban & Loren Mead Seek Cases / Stories for New
Book
Billie Alban and Loren Mead 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.
Their purpose is to write a book about the use of Large
Group Methods, specifically in working with faith based organizations.
If you have done work using large group methods with
any of the above faith related organizations, please contact Billie Alban by
email: alb...@aol.com
Please provide your phone number so that Alban or Mead
can contact you by phone and learn more about your work.
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About Consultants/Authors Billie Alban & Loren Mead
Billie Alban 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: Large
Group Interventions: Engaging the Whole System for Rapid Change (1996) and The
Handbook of Large Group Methods: Creating Systemic Change in Organizations and
Communities (2006).
Loren Mead, 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. As author, he published three best selling books
on the future of the church, The Once and Future Church (1991), Transforming
Congregations for the Future (1994), and Five Challenges for the Once and
Future Church (1996).
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