[Dialogue] Guernica Day and Conversation Roots

[steve har]

Guernica -  75 years ago the the Basque city of Guernica was bombed
April 25, 1937 at about 4pm.
There is a mashup of old video clips and pictures at
http://www.mashpedia.com/Bombing_of_Guernica

Picasso- Later Picasso made a painting of it and raised the question
of bombing civilian populations into an ethical question.

Guernica Conversation - Still later Joe Mathews made the Guernica
painting an opportunity to engage not only ethical public policy
questions but where people in the conversation might stand in the
ready-to-hand-matters of life and to engage freely and responsibly.

Brian Stanfield in one of his books describes how Mathews used the
Guernica painting to invent a conversation that let a class of
students raise and express vividly both ethical and personal
existential questions in a learning environment.

ORID Conversation - Even still later someone took the original
Guernica Art Form conversation and changed the focus from being
[ontology] to knowing [epistemology]  and then  formalized the
conversation it into a queston procedure for knowing something - an
epistemological conversation. Something gained but also something
lost.

Wayne Nelson's interesting paper last year stressesd this shift in
emphasis to ORID epistemology as the basis for facilitation  but he
also de-emphasized the ontology of guided conversations that began
with Guernica and generated many many other conversations including
tombstone, journey and song conversations that were well documented in
the Summer 73 Spirit Methods Manual.

Does anyone know the story of how the Art Form conversation was
"de-commissioned" in favor of the ORID procedure for knowing something
as set out in Brian's book on workplace conversations an ad detailed
in ToP  facilitator's tool kit?

Seems like something was gained with the invention of ORID but also
lost as well. For one thing, it seems a facilitator has no existential
or ethical standing to speak or listen outside the deliverables &
procedures of the specific facilitation event.

Another interesting question might be what additional tools might
enrich the facilitator's tool kit? Storytelling, 1 to 1 coaching?
Coaching teams & communities to form and accomplish results? Maybe it
is time to develop & deploy some new leadership roles for the future?

Seems like there might be some questions here for 50th Anniversary
dialogue. Any suggestions?

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Steve