[Dialogue] Question

Tue Feb 19 19:57:02 PST 2013


On 2/20/13 1:04 AM, Wayne Nelson wrote:
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> People like Margaret Wheatley write these books so people will copy 
> them.  They hope groups will use the models they create. It's a way of 
> altering common practice in community and organizational development 
> work.
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> The A77 initiative is a kind of unique evolution of ICA's approach to 
> programming in that it is conceived and delivered from what can be 
> called "an appreciative" perspective. It seems to use the ideas found 
> in John McKnight and Case Western Reserve's work. It's a distinctly 
> different modality than, for example, ToP Strategy Planning.
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> We have been getting this message about approaches that emphasize 
> identifying, growing and developing positive trends in a fairly strong 
> way since the early 90's.
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> I think we have been warned that repeated messages help you change 
> your mind.
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> It's nice to see it played out in this way.
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> On 02-192013, at 9:49 AM, R Williams wrote:
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>> Terry,
>> I am clear that A77 is not copying or replicating the process from 
>> Wheatley, which is why I said A77 "draws from a _process_ 
>> _articulated_ _in_" the book, by which I meant to imply, not directly 
>> from the book itself.  Hope no one thinks I was suggesting that the 
>> ICA was just aping Wheatley.  That certainly was not my intent.  It 
>> is strange and wondrous that when truth emerges it shows up in many 
>> places and many forms and is used in different ways by different 
>> assortments of people.  As I stated in the email and have said often 
>> in other places, where this wisdom first appeared for me was in 
>> Hawken's /Blessed Unrest./  But it wasn't until /Walk Out Walk On/, 
>> or actually in a paper by Wheatley and Frieze that preceded the book, 
>> that I was able to articulate for myself more clearly the value of 
>> and how to use Hawken's, and Senge's, insights.
>> Randy
>> /"The sustainability revolution is nothing less than a rethinking and 
>> remaking of our role in the natural world."/
>> -David Orr
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>> *From:* Terry Bergdall <bergdall at gmail.com <mailto:bergdall at gmail.com>>
>> *To:* R Williams <rcwmbw at yahoo.com <mailto:rcwmbw at yahoo.com>>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:15 AM
>> *Subject:* [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Question
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>> Randy,
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>> I first read Walk Out Walk On at the ToP annual meeting in Sacramento 
>> in January 2012 when it was the subject of a charting exercise over 4 
>> mornings. What I find interesting is that the 4 steps of Accelerate 
>> 77 is not something that came DIRECTLY from her book (we were 
>> promoting these four steps for most of 2011). Rather, it is an 
>> example of INDIRECT wisdom garnered from kindred spirits. These are 
>> the words, phrases, and insights that become a reinforcing piece of 
>> our "image" or the world. The important matter is our operating 
>> image, not the source of the messages that created it. I heard 
>> Wheatley talk at the annual conference of the International 
>> Association of Facilitator (IAF) in April of 2010. She was probably 
>> then in the thick of writing Walk Out Walk On. While I can't remember 
>> anything specific she said, I'm sure her presentation made a deep 
>> impression on me that eventually influenced the creation of 
>> Accelerate 77.
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>> I have a clearer memory about the "collegium" on Accelerate 77 when 
>> we solidified our four steps for inclusion in a printed program 
>> description for potential supporters. The 4 steps were simply pulled 
>> out of our collective wisdom about what we were trying to do and why. 
>> One of our volunteers, Vito Greco, was the most articulate that 
>> morning that led us to our collective "ah-ha" on Identify, Connect, 
>> Engage, and Accelerate. It is shocking to see how close our four 
>> steps are with Wheatley's. Maybe "fascinating" is a better word. I'm 
>> referring to the relatively UNCONSCIOUS relationship between them.
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>> I'm reminded of that quote that says something like "you know you are 
>> successful in playing a catalytic role when people with whom you've 
>> worked accomplish something and they say 'we did this ourselves!'"
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>> Terry
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>>> The ICA-USA's Accelerate 77 program draws from a process articulated 
>>> in /Walk Out Walk On./  Wheatley and Frieze posit that everything 
>>> that needs to happen in local community is already underway and 
>>> there's no need to spend time initiating anything new.  What is 
>>> needed is to (their 4-step process) _identify_, _connect_, _nurture_ 
>>> and _expand_ what is already going on.  (ICA called step 4 
>>> "accelerate.")  By so doing, the isolated efforts emerge into 
>>> networks of relationships which evolve into communities of practice, 
>>> and these communities of practice, over time, change the world.
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