[Dialogue] Guernica & Conversation Roots & Shoots

[Wilson Priscilla]

You can read about a wide variety of leadership roles and skills in The Facilitative Way. The premise of the book is that everyone in the "group" is called to be a leader...assume responsibility for what is happening.

I happen to recommend the book...which is now available again after being out of print for a year.
Anyone interested can let me know and I'll give you a Discount code to purchase it for $6.95.

I'm enjoying all the variety of methods conversations...
Priscilla Wilson

On May 3, 2012, at 4:43 PM, steve har wrote:

> To my taste nurturing roots and growing new shoots is actually a
> timely task in the face of a 50 year vision.
> 
> Nurturing roots and shoots for ways of leading in complex situations
> is a good thing.
> 
> Debating the reliability of ORID with facilitators is like listening
> to a group of carpenters argue about whether hammers put nails in
> boards.
> 
> Studying Brian's new version of Chapter 10 would be delightful,
> especially online with generous hearts and open inquiry
> 
> What new shoots for 50 years?
> 
> Building a house with only a carpenter and a hammer seems silly.
> Plumbers and Roofers would be good.
> 
> Bending history with only a facilitator role and an ORID conversation
> seems daunting as well.
> 
> I'm thinking more roles, conversations and tools are needed:
> Facilitators facilitate knowing
> Pedagogues and Story-Makers grant being
> Navigators, Coaches, Mentors cause  action outcomes
> 
> Mathews's NRM and Jenkins's 9D book don't only belong to facilitators.
> Might be a good point of departure for some new thinking.
> 
> Did you read Kaze Gadway's post this morning? She's hard at work in
> the Being-Doing mode. She is mentoring those indian kids on behalf of
> the next generation. She's granting new being side by side with those
> kids. There is no facilitation in sight.
> 
> Not everyone needs to think, be, do it al, all the time either. Seems
> like it is a time for more appreciative inquiry and more innovations
> not less.
> 
> --re presuppositions--
> 
> The assertion that ORID is THE way the mind thinks doesn't pass the
> "no-smiling allowed" test in Buddhist circles. It would be a topic for
> generous respectful inquiry, maybe a testable hypothesis.
> 
> Heidegger asserted that most people don't actually know much about
> hammering, especially carpenters,  they are just being in the world
> hammering. Not too much reflection goes on until the hammer hits the
> thumb for most carpenters. Kind of sets those Cartesian abstractionist
> back a step or two.
> 
> Carpenters have skillful means they don't need to do an ORID they just
> have the experience of hammering skillfully. Some people focus on
> knowing, some on doing, some on doing.
> 
> I assert that the world needs more leadership roles, and facilitators
> have great skill set. It isn't the only leadership skill set.
> 
> Mathews had a fine insight when he separated out the phenomena of
> knowing being and doing. What new leadership roles and conversations
> and skillful means?
> 
> What happens when you take up a practice like facilitating, teaching,
> coaching, mentoring, story-making skill sets? You practice being
> skillful until you get it right and you get it automatic.
> See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition
> 
> If you plot leadership roles on Mathews's NRM triangle as updated by
> the Jenkins it might look like this
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DlNTut28MXqLnv-_Xd2yPoHONBHlOAJLC8AmwL_O2B8/edit
> 
> Seems like some new skill sets might evolve too.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Steve
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Priscilla H Wilson
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